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Marie Hedwig Auguste of the Palatinate-Sulzbach | |
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Born | Sulzbach | 15 April 1650
Died | 23 November 1681 Hamburg | (aged 31)
Buried | White Castle at Ostrov |
Noble family | House of Wittelsbach |
Spouse(s) |
Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg |
Issue Detail |
Anna Maria Franziska, Grand Duchess of Tuscany Sybille, Margravine of Baden-Baden |
Father | Christian August, Count Palatine of Sulzbach |
Mother | Amalie of Nassau-Siegen |
Marie Hedwig Auguste of Sulzbach ( German: Marie Hedwig Auguste von Sulzbach; born: 15 April 1650 in Sulzbach; died: 23 November 1681 in Hamburg) was a Countess Palatine of Sulzbach by birth and by marriage, Archduchess of Austria and by her second marriage, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.
Hedwig was a daughter of the Duke and Count Palatine Christian August of Sulzbach (1622–1708) from his marriage to Countess Amalie of Nassau-Siegen (1613–1669), daughter of Count John VII of Nassau-Siegen.
She was married on 3 June 1665 per cura in the court chapel of Sulzbach to Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria-Tyrol (1630–1665), who after his brother's unexpected death had resigned from his ecclesiastical positions in order to marry. The marriage was never consummated: while travelling to meet his bride, the Archduke fell seriously ill and died in Innsbruck twelve days after the marriage.
Hedwig's second marriage, in Sulzbach on 9 April 1668, was with Duke Julius Francis of Saxe-Lauenburg (1641–1689). Her father had a memorial stone erected in the Sulzbach parish church to commemorate the event. [1] Hedwig had been assured an annual income of 20000guilders at her first marriage; Julius Francis made a deal with the imperial court, in which Hedwig would receive a lump sum instead.
Hedwig died in 1681 and was buried in the White Castle at Ostrov ( German: Schlackenwerth).
Hedwig from her second marriage had the following children: