Johanna of Hanau-Münzenberg


Countess Johanna of Hanau-Münzenberg was a daughter of Count Albert of Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels and Countess Ehrengard of Isenburg. Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels was a cadet branch of Hanau-Münzenberg.

Marriage

Johanna of Hanau-Münzenberg married twice:
  1. From September 1637 with Wild- and Rhinegrave Wolfgang Friedrich of Salm. The marriage did not produce offspring.
  2. on 14 December 1646 with Prince Manuel António of Portugal, a Dutch-Portuguese nobleman with family relationship to the House of Orange-Nassau. Their relation produced the following issue:
  3. #Wilhelmina Amalia
  4. #Elisabeth Maria, married on 11 April 1678 with Lieutenant colonel Baron Adriaan of Gent
The sources point out that the countess brought in little to the marriage. 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

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