Elizabeth Juliana Francis of Hesse-Homburg

Landgravine Elisabeth Juliana Francisca of Hesse-Homburg (6 January 1681 – 12 November 1707), , official titles: Landgräfin zu Hessen, Fürstin zu Hersfeld, Gräfin zu Katzenelnbogen, Diez, Ziegenhain, Nidda, Schaumburg, Isenburg und Büdingen, was a landgravine from the House of Hesse-Homburg and through marriage Fürstin of Nassau-Siegen.

Biography

Elisabeth Juliana Francisca was born at Homburg Castle on 6 January 1681, the fifth daughter of Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Homburg and his second wife Duchess Louise Elisabeth of Courland. Elisabeth Juliana Francisca was baptised on 13 January.

Fürst Frederick William Adolf of Nassau-Siegen, the husband of Elisabeth Juliana Francisca. Anonymous portrait, first quarter 18th century. Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen. Elisabeth Juliana Francisca married at Homburg Castle on 7 January 1702 to Fürst Frederick William Adolf of Nassau-Siegen (, Siegen, 20 February 1680 ), the eldest son of Fürst William Maurice of Nassau-Siegen and Princess Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Schaumburg. Frederick William Adolf also succeeded his father as count of Bronkhorst, lord of , , and , and hereditary knight banneret of the Duchy of Guelders and the County of Zutphen. Because he was still a minor, he was under the custody and regency of his mother until 1701.

Elisabeth Juliana Francisca died in the Nassauischer Hof in Siegen She was buried in the there on 14 November. on 13 April 1708 – , Siegen,

In October 1712 Frederick William Adolf and William Hyacinth, the Catholic Fürst of Nassau-Siegen, reached an agreement about their share in the city of Siegen. William Hyacinth ceded the Catholic land to Frederick William Adolf in exchange for an annual pension of 12,000 Reichsthalers. There was even an intention to marry off Maria Anna Josepha, William Hyacinth's underage daughter, to the even younger reformed Hereditary Prince Frederick William, Elisabeth Juliana Francisca's only son. All this was done not in the least to get rid of the troublesome foreign administration. Since April 1707 the Catholic part of the principality of Nassau-Siegen had, by order of the Aulic Council, been under the administration of the cathedral chapter in Cologne, due to the maladministration of William Hyacinth (because the Archbishop of Cologne was in imperial ban at the time, the cathedral chapter governed the Archdiocese of Cologne). Frederick William succeeded his father in 1722 but was under the custody and regency of his stepmother Amalie Louise until 1727. Charlotte Frederica (Siegen, 30 November 1702 – Stadthagen, 22 July 1785 ("See State Archives Bückeburg, Des.) L. 176, Stadthagen (ref.) N. 1, S. 92. However, the document does not explicitly mention the place of death. It is also not mentioned in the records of the Lutheran St. Martin's Church in Stadthagen." (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 21 September 1705 to Countess Sophie Polyxena Concordia of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (Berlin, 28 May 1709 – , Siegen, 15 December 1781 ("See Dek (1970), confirmed by the parish registers, notifications and an article in the Dillenburgische Intelligenz Nachrichten, LI.) Stück, Sonnabends, den 22 Decembris 1781: «Den 15ten dieses des Abends». Vorsterman van Oyen (1882) states she died in 1783." Great-great-grandparents

Gotthard of Courland(ca. 1517–1587)⚭ 1566Anne of Mecklenburg-Güstrow(1533–1602)

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