Louise Juliane of Erbach
Louise Juliane Countess of Erbach (* 1603 Castle Fuerstenau in town Michel, † September 28, 1670 in Friedewald ) was by marriage Countess of Sayn -Wittgenstein- Sayn, they also ruled intermittently as guardian. In memory they remained through the romance novel The Countess of Sayn by Karl Ramseger mill.
Life
Countess Louise Juliane of Erbach was in 1603 as the daughter of Count Georg III. born of Erbach and his wife Maria of Barby - Mühlingen. The government came at just the Count Ernst von Sayn -Wittgenstein- Sayn she took in January 1624 for the wife. He was the son of William III. von Sayn- Wittgenstein, who from Sayn the Sayner united through his marriage to Anna Elisabeth again and the new line had founded Sayn -Wittgenstein- Sayn. From William III. second marriage to Anna Ottilie von Nassau -Weilburg came from three other sons, who wanted to make her the inheritance dispute after the death of June's son, the Hereditary Count Louis.
The young Count couple chose Hachenburg with its castle as his residence and got seven children, including the Ludwig Erbgraf there. Four of her daughters died at an early age. During the Thirty Years' War, Ernst stood as Count in military service, Louise Juliane led the government. At the Diet of 1632 in Frankfurt am Main, where the couple at the Swedish king Gustav Adolf sought help for his beleaguered country, Count Ernst died at the age of only 32 years. In his will he had Louise Juliane transferred the regency for his minor son, Louis, and further provides that in the event of premature death of Hereditary Count his two daughters should inherit the county. This testament prompted Louise Juliane to remain celibate. She ruled with skill, but already in 1636 died Erbgraf Ludwig, not yet seven years old. With him the male line of the line went out of Sayn -Wittgenstein- Sayn. In disregard of the will of the step-brother of Count Ernst Ludwig Casimir forced von Sayn-Wittgenstein, the mother, the county to hand over her husband's half-brothers. After two months, Louise Juliane revoked its consent; Old churches was occupied by the recent stepbrothers Count Christian; Hachenburg was besieged by the Electorate of Cologne and compelled by starvation to surrender. The Countess fled to the Great Castle, where her Kurtrier prepared the same fate, until they finally found a safe residence in Schloss Friedewald. From there they fought Louise Juliane to the rights of their daughters at Wetzlar the Imperial Chamber Court and the Emperor himself was only in the peace negotiations in 1648 in Münster and Osnabrück, where they despatched their councils, were their rights, especially with the help of Sweden, confirmed again and she received it a part of their country after the other back. In 1652 she put the regency into the hands of their daughters, whom the country now divided into three sharing contracts in the county of Sayn- old churches and in the county of Sayn- Hachenburg. On September 16, 1670, died in Friedewald and was buried next to her husband and son in the crypt of Hachenbruger Castle Church.
Progeny
His marriage to Ernst von Sayn -Wittgenstein (* August 26, 1594, † May 22, 1632 ) following children come from:
- Ludwig (1628-1636)
- Ernestine (* April 23, 1626, † October 13, 1661 )
- Charlotte, († 1629)
- Louise (* 1629th †? )
- Maria Elisabeth (1630-1631)
- Johannette ( Johanna ) ( 1632-1701 )
The division
The Hachenburger part, the County of Sayn- Hachenburg, passed through the Louise Juliane's daughter Ernestine, who was married to Count Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid - Blankenheim, to the Counts of Manderscheid, then by her daughter to the viscount of Kirchberg and 1799 in Nassau Weilburg.
The Old kirchener part, the county of Sayn- old churches, came by marriage of her daughter Johannette (or Johanne ) to Duke Johann Georg of Saxe- Eisenach, with whom she was married in second marriage. After going out of his tribe in 1741 the property passed to Brandenburg- Ansbach, 1791, Prussia and 1803 Nassau- Usingen.