Johann Reinhard II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

Count Johann Reinhard II

Count Johann Reinhard II, engraving by Peter Aubrey, Strasbourg
Spouse(s) Anna Magdalena, Countess Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler
Noble family House of Hanau
Father Philipp Wolfgang, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Mother Johanna of Oettingen-Oettingen
Born 23 January  [O.S. 13 January]  1628
Bouxwiller
Died 25 April 1666(1666-04-25) (aged 38)
Bischofsheim am Hohen Steg
Buried Lichtenberg Castle

Count Johann Reinhard II of Hanau-Lichtenberg (2 February [O.S. 23 January] 1628 in Bouxwiller 25 April 1666 in Bischofsheim am Hohen Steg) was a younger son of Count Philipp Wolfgang of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1595–1641) and Countess Johanna of Oettingen-Oettingen (d. 1639).

Ordinal number

Although he was a younger son and never a reigning count, he is usually referred to as Johann Reinhard (II) in the relevant literature. He was the grandson of reigning Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1559–1626) and the father of reigning Johann Reinhard III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1665–1736), but he never reigned himself. To indicate that he was not ruling Count, the ordinal number is sometimes placed in parenthesis after his name.

Life

He was sent, together with his brother Johann Philipp, on a Grand Tour to Germany, the Netherlands, England, France and Switzerland. He then visited the Reichstag in Nuremberg in 1650, which was devoted to the problems of enforcing the Peace of Westphalia.

His father's testament awarded him the District of Lichtenau in Hesse and Bischofsheim am Hohen Steg as a residence. In 1653, he participated in the Reichstag in Regensburg.

Johann Reinhard died on 25 April 1666 and was buried in the vault in Lichtenberg Castle. Two funeral sermons were published: one by Georg Linus, General Superintendent of the county of Hanau, with a contribution of Philipp Jacob Spener[1] and another which included a contribution by Quirinus Moscherosch.[2]

Marriage and issue

On 19 October 1659, he married in Bischweiler (now Bischwiller, France) Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1640–1693). They had five children:

married on 5 December 1685 to Count Johann Karl August (17 March 1662 3 November 1698).
married on 27 September 1697 to Count Friedrich Ludwig of Nassau-Saarbrücken-Ottweiler (13 November 1651 25 May 1728)

Furthermore, Johann Reinhard had an extramarital affair with Maria Magdalena von Lindenau (also: Lindau). Maria Magdalena (died after 1680)[4] was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel von Lindenau (died: 1 December 1640) who had earlier served in the Swedish army and was appointed commander of the Fortress Hanau as successor of Johann Winter von Güldenborn. After his death, he was succeeded by Karl Kasimir von Landras.[5] Johann Reinhard and Maria Magdalena had at least one son:

Johann Reinhard von Lichtenfels resided in Duisburg in 1680.[8] The latest evidence comes from 1689.[9] Johan Reinhard von Lichtenfels served in the military of the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Münster and died without heirs.

Ancestors

References

Footnotes

  1. evidence: Catalogue, No. 69
  2. Rudolf Lenz: Katalog der Leichenpredigten und sonstigen Trauerschriften in der Hessischen Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, #155
  3. Suchier, Grabmonumente, p. 53
  4. there is a prescription by Johann Reinhard to her and her son's from that year: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, file O.I.a of 3 May 1658 and 12 February 1680
  5. Georg Friedrich Dhein: Hanauer history collections, vol. 4, sheet 15
  6. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, file 86: Supplements from Hanau, No. 30 644: child support payments for the years 1656 to 1658
  7. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, file O.I.a of 22 May 1689
  8. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, file O.I.a of 12 February 1680
  9. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, stock file O.I.a of 22 Mai 1689. Other documents relating to him there, are dated 24 May 1680, 26 December 1685 and 16 April 1689
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