Johanna of Hanau-Münzenberg

Countess Johanna of Hanau-Münzenberg (1610 – 13 September 1673) was a daughter of Count Albert of Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels and Countess Ehrengard of Isenburg (1577 – 1637). Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels was a cadet branch of Hanau-Münzenberg.

Marriage

Johanna of Hanau-Münzenberg married twice:

1. From September 1637^[1] with Wild- and Rhinegrave Wolfgang Friedrich of Salm (1589 – 24 December 1638). The marriage did not produce offspring.
2. on 14 December 1646 with Prince Manuel António of Portugal (1600 – 1666), a Dutch-Portuguese nobleman with family relationship to the House of Orange-Nassau. Their relation produced the following issue:
   1. Wilhelmina Amalia (1647 – 14 November 1647)
   2. Elisabeth Maria (20 November 1648 in Delft – 15 October 1717 in Vianen), married on 11 April 1678 with Lieutenant colonel Baron Adriaan of Gent (16 February 1645 in The Hague – 10 August 1708)

The sources point out that the countess brought in little to the marriage.^[2] Due to the Thirty Years' War, the lineage Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels had become impoverished. Seemingly in 1633, the family had to escape from the Burg Schwarzenfels, first to Worms and later to Strasbourg where they struggled with financial problems. This explains her relatively advanced age for the first marriage.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Johanna of Hanau-Münzenberg

16. Philip II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg 8. Philip III, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg 17. Juliana of Stolberg 4. Philip Louis I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg 18. John II, Count Palatine of Simmern 9. Countess Palatine Helena of Simmern 19. Beatrice of Baden 2. Albert of Hanau-Münzenberg 20. Henry VIII, Count of Waldeck 10. Philip IV, Count of Waldeck 21. Anastasia of Runkel 5. Magdalene of Waldeck-Wildungen 22. Salentin VII of Isenburg-Grenzau 11. Countess Jutta of Isenburg-Grenzau 23. Elisabeth of Hunolstein 1. Johanna of Hanau-Münzenberg 24. Louis II, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen 12. John, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen 25. Maria of Nassau-Wiesbaden 6. Philip II, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen 26. Günther XXXIX, Count of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg 13. Anna of Schwarzburg 27. Amalie of Mansfeld 3. Countess Ehrengard of Isenburg-Büdingen 28. Bernard II, Count of Solms-Braunfels 14. Philip, Count of Solms-Braunfels 29. Margaret of Henneberg 7. Countess Ehrengard of Solms-Braunfels 30. Otto IX, Count of Tecklenburg 15. Anna of Tecklenburg 31. Irmgard of Rietberg

References

General

• Reinhard Dietrich: Die Landesverfassung in dem Hanauischen = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34. Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
• Detlev Schwennicke: Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europäischen Staaten. Band 3,3. Frankfurt 1958.
• Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses in: Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894, Hanau 1894.
• Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau Stadt und Land, 3. Auflage, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

Notes

1. Dek, p. 30: 1 February 1637.
2. Van Kamp, col. 273.

Bibliography

• Dek, Anders W. E. (1962). Graf Johann der Mittlere von Nassau-Siegen und seine 25 Kinder [Genealogy of the Counts of Nassau, of Nassau, Germany] (in German). Rijswijk.
• Van Kamp, J. L. J. (September 1957). "Nog een tak afstammelingen van Willem de Zwijger". De Nederlandsche Leeuw (in Dutch). LXXIV (9). columns 266–287; 306–316.