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From: William Addams Reitwiesner <>
Subject: Re: Anna/Elisabeth of Hesse (XIV century)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 13:10:19 GMT


Marlyn Lewis <> wrote:

>Valerio P.Lucchinetti wrote:
>>
>> Looking for info on Elisabeth/Anna, dau. Otto I, lgve of Hesse, said
>> to have married Elector Rudolf II of Saxony (d.1370).
>> According to my records Rudolf II married 1346 Elisabeth of Lindau-Rupin
>> (d.1373) and this was the only wife, the marriage being childless.
>>
>According to ES (Europaische Stammtafeln, Tafel 82, Vol. I), Elisabeth,
>was daughter of Otto, Landgraf von Hessen and she married Rudolf II,
>Elector of Saxony (d. 6 Dec 1370). They had NO children. However, on
>Tafel 97, same volume, there is no mention of any daughters for Otto,
>Landgraf von Hessen. So, she could indeed be a daughter of the
>Lindau-Rupin family. Unfortunately, ES hasn't done anything with the
>Lindau-Rupin family to argue for or against this hypothesis.
>
>Wasn't THAT a lot of help?? :)

It would have been more help if you had picked up volume XII of the
Schwennicke edition of *Europaeische Stammtafeln* and turned to Tafel
36, which is titled "Die GRAFEN von LINDOW-RUPPIN 1209-1524, a.d.H.
Steusslingen".

You may not consider the Freytag von Loringhoven edition of
*Europaeische Stammtafeln* to be part of "ES", but if you pick up Band
IV of that series and turn to Tafel 48, you'll see it's titled "Die
Grafen von Lindow [Lindau] und Herren von Ruppin".

While you're checking those references, I'll mention that S. Otto
Brenner, *Nachkommen Gorms des Alten* [Stuttgart: Silberburg, 1965]
discusses the issue on page 281 (under entry 809-12), and places
Rudolf's wife Elizabeth (no Anna) at number 922a (page 66) as a
daughter of Otto I of Hesse.

William Addams Reitwiesner

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