Mechthild (Hessen) von Hessen (abt. 1267 - aft. 1332)

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Mechthild Hessen was a member of the aristocracy in Germany.

Mechthild von Hessen was the daughter of Heinrich I 'das Kind', Landgraf von Hessen and his first wife, Adelheid von Braunschweig-Lüneburg and was born about 1267.^[1]

She was betrothed by contract signed at Grünberg, 7 November 1274 and married before 25 June 1282 to Gottfried VI, Graf von Ziegenhain (who was not yet 12 years old). He died 30 November 1304.^[1] They had six children;

1. Hedwig von Ziegenhain, mentioned 1323-1355, married Boppo (Poppo) I, Graf von Eberstein, mentioned 1300-1328, died 1329;
2. Eilika, Abbess (Äbtissin) von Altenberg, mentioned 1304-1361, 1356-1361;
3. Adelheid, mentioned 1315-1322, married Heinrich II, Graf von Rieneck;
4. Heinrich (von Rauschenberg), mentioned 22 June 1330;
5. Johann I, succeeded his father as Graf von Ziegenhain and Graf von Nidda;
6. Otto, mentioned 1304, entered the Church, died 31 March 1366 and is buried in Mainz Dom (Cathedral).

Mechthild married secondly after 11 October 1309, Philipp 'die Ältere' von Falkenstein, Herr zu Münzenberg, who died between 19 November 1321 and 2 April 1322.^[1]

She died after 1332, possibly as a nun.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Knetsch, Carl, Das Haus Brabant: Genealogie der Herzog von Brabant und der Landgrafen von Hessen, Vol. 1-Vom 9 Jahrhundert bis zu Philipp dem Grossmütigen; Darmstadt: Historischer Verein für das Grossherzogtum Hessen, 1917. Digital image, Philipps-Universität Marburg https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/eb/2015/0060/: accessed 13 July 2019.