Katharina of Hanau (26 March 1525 – 20 August 1581) was the eldest daughter of Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg and Countess Juliana of Stolberg.
Marriage and issue Katharina married in 1543 to Count Johann IV of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg (d. 15 June 1581).Dispensation was granted on 14 September 1543: Hesse State Archive at Marburg, file I.O.a. In 1525, he was mentioned as a canon in Cologne;See Dek, p. 229 he later reverted to the lay state. They had the following children: Herman I (d. 10 December 1591), succeeded his father 1581; married Countess Walpurga of Bentheim-Steinfurt Wilhelm (d. 1612), succeeded his father in 1581 in Runkel and Dierdorf, the so-called "Upper County of Wied"; married Countess Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg Juliane (1545–1606), married Reichard, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim Magdalena (d. 13 October 1606), married to Count Siegmund of Hardegg (d. 1599) Anna (d. 1590), married to Johann Wilhelm of Rogendorff (d. 1590) Katharina (27 May 1552 – 13 November 1584), married to Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg Agnes (d. 1 May 1581), married to Gottfried IV Schenk IV of Limpurg-Speckfeld-Obersontheim (d. 1581)
Ancestors
References Adrian Willem Eliza Dek: De Afstammelingen van Juliana van Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de vrede van Munster, Zaltbommel, 1968 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, 3rd ed., Hanau, 1919, reprinted: 1978
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