Countess Palatine Magdalena Claudia of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler


Countess Palatine Claudia Magdalena of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, was the daughter of the Count Palatine Christian II of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler. She married on in Hanau her cousin Count Philip Reinhard of Hanau-Münzenberg. The dowry was.

Issue

From her marriage with Philip Reinhard, she had the following children:
  1. Stillbirth, buried in the crypt of the St. John's Church in Hanau
  2. Stillbirth ;
  3. Catharine Magdalene, buried in the crypt of St John's Church in Hanau
Claudia Magdalena died on 28 November 1704 and on was also buried in the crypt of the Lutheran Church in Hanau, on
18 December 1704. During the mourning, the biggest bell in St. John's Church broke. This was a bell she had donated. The burial site of the Lutheran branch of the House of Hanau - and thus the burial of Countess Claudia Magdalena - was destroyed during the Second World War.

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