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Mechthild von Hessen (1490-1558)

Mechthild von Hessen (born around 1490: d. 6 May 1558) was the daughter of William I , Landgrave (1466-1520) and Anna of Braunschweig (1460-1520). Table of contents

   1 Life

   2 Descendants

   3 . Literature, sources

   4 Web links

Life

Mechthild von Hesse was a cousin of the Hessian Landgrave Philip of the magnanimous. She first began the spiritual career. After the Reformation in the Landgraviate of Hesse had been introduced, the monasteries were dissolved, and she turned to back secular things. Landgrave Philip married on 13 may 1527 with the count Konrad of Tecklenburg-Schwerin, who had served as a young nobleman at the Court of Landgrave. The count received as a dowry in the marriage as a Hessian fief parts the County of Hoya, namely the offices of Uchte and Freudenberg with the capital of Bassum. The marriage served to supply by Mechthild, on the other hand it was politically motivated and should strengthen the policy of Philip and the reformation in Germany . Descendants

   Anna of Tecklenburg-Schwerin (* 5 July 1532; died 24 August 1582), married Eberwin III. von Bentheim-Steinfurt ä.L.

Literature, sources

   Gerhard Arnold Rumpius: of salvation. Roman numerals; Empire watch old hochlöbliche Graffschafft Tekelenburg. Brauer, Bremen 1710 reprint: Howe, Tecklenburg 1988, ISBN 3-925147-02-0. P. 105 ff.

Wilhelm Müller: from the history of the County of Tecklenburg. District Committee, Tecklenburg 1920, p. 12 et seq.
Oskar Prinz von Bentheim: Anna of Tecklenburg 1532-1582. The first Evangelical Regent in Westphalia. In: Jahrbuch für Westfälische church history. No. 98. society for Westphalian church history, Bielefeld 2003, ISSN 0341-9886, S. 77-86.
Web links

   http://www.his-data.de/Adel/EHEN/tecklbg/hess1527.htm