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Hedwig of Sulzbach

Field	Value
name	Marie Hedwig Auguste of the Palatinate-Sulzbach
image	Ritratto di Maria Edvige Augusta del Palatinato-Sulzbach.png
issue	Anna Maria Franziska, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Sybille, Margravine of Baden-Baden
noble family	House of Wittelsbach
father	Christian August, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
mother	Amalie of Nassau-Siegen
spouse	Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria
Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
issue-link	#Issue
birth_date
birth_place	Sulzbach
death_date
death_place	Hamburg
burial_place	White Castle at Ostrov

Sybille, Margravine of Baden-Baden Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg | issue-link = #Issue Marie Hedwig Auguste of 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.

Early life

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.

First marriage

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.

Second 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. Hedwig had been assured an annual income of at her first marriage; Julius Francis made a deal with the imperial court, in which Hedwig would receive a lump sum instead.

Death

Hedwig died in 1681 and was buried in the White Castle at Ostrov ().

Issue

Hedwig from her second marriage had the following children:

Anna Maria Theresia (1670–1671)
Anna Maria Franziska (1672–1741) : married firstly in 1690 Count Palatine Philip William of Neuburg (1668–1693) : married secondly 1697 Grand Duke Gian Gastone de' Medici of Tuscany (1671–1737)
Sybille (1675–1733) : married in 1690 Margrave Louis William of Baden-Baden (1655–1707)

References and sources

Theologische Quartalschrift, vol. 50, H. Laupp, 1868, p. 106 Digitized
Johann Samuel Ersch: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, section 2 part 28, J. f. Gleditsch, 1851, p. 363

Footnotes

References

Georg Hager, Georg Lill: ''Bezirksamt Sulzbach'', vol 19, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1982, p. 94

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