Sibylle Christine of Anhalt-Dessau

Princess Sibylle Christine of Anhalt- Dessau ( born June 10, 1603 Dessau, † February 11, 1686 in Hanau ) was a daughter of Prince Johann Georg I of Anhalt -Dessau (* 1567, † 1618) and Dorothea von Pfalz- simmering.

Sibylle Christine married on 16 December 1627 his first marriage Count Philipp Moritz ( * 1605, † 1638) of Hanau coins mountain. From this marriage emerged:

After the death of her first husband, she took over the regency for her infant son yet, Philipp Ludwig III. After this one was also died in 1641, Sibylle Christine moved her widow's residence, the castle in Steinau Steinau.

Philipp Ludwig III. ( † 1642 * 1613 ) of Hanau- Miinzenberg Blackrock was inherited by Count Johann Ernst. This was the last male member of the House Hanau coins mountain. He already died in 1642 He was succeeded by Friedrich Casimir von Hanau (* 1623, † 1685). Lutheran line from the Hanau -Lichtenberg of the house Hanau. His throne was in a financially for the county by the Thirty Years' War precarious situation. As Countess Dowager Sibylle Christine could pose significant demands on the county. To avoid these and the required funding of a "new " wife, she was married on 13 May 1647 the 20 years his junior, reached full age Friedrich Casimir. The solution had the advantage that Sibylle Christine was reformed faith and the marriage calmed the Reformed subjects, who formed a vast majority in the county of Hanau coins mountain and the Lutherans Friedrich Casimir faced suspicious. The marriage remained childless. She was influenced by other differences, probably because Friedrich Casimir fell back in his steadily high demand for money and the property of his wife.

After the death of her second husband also Sibylle Christine in 1685 moved again to her widow seat, castle Steinau back. She died on February 11, 1686 as the last member of the reformed denomination Hanauer Graf house, which has taken the reformed majority of subjects difficult. To her burial in a coffin resting on 25 March 1686, the family vault of St. Mary's Church in Hanau published a funeral sermon.