Countess Palatine of Sulzbach | |
Maria Eleonore | |
House: | House of Hesse |
Issue: | Count Palatine Joseph Charles Francisca Christina, Abbess of Essen Ernestine, Landgravine of Hesse-Rotenburg John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach Anne Christine, Princess of Piedmont |
Spouse: | Theodore Eustace of Sulzbach |
Mother: | Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim |
Birth Date: | 25 February 1675 |
Birth Place: | Rheinfels, Hesse |
Death Place: | Sulzbach |
Princess Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg (Maria Eleonore Amalia; 25 February 1675 - 27 January 1720) was Landgravine of Hesse-Rotenburg by birth and was the Countess Palatine of Sulzbach by marriage.
Maria Eleonore was the second child of William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and his wife Countess Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. She was an older sister of Ernest Leopold of Hesse-Rotenburg, future ruler of her native Hesse-Rotenburg.
Engaged to Theodore Eustace of Sulzbach, the heir of the ruling Count Palatine of Sulzbach Christian Augustus, the couple were married on 9 June 1692 in Lobositz, Bohemia. The couple had some nine children three of which would have further progeny.
She died in Sulzbach at the age of 44.