Agnes of Solms-Laubach was a Countess of Solms-Laubach

Solms-Laubach

Solms-Laubach was a County of southern Hesse and eastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was originally created as a partition of Solms-Lich. Solms-Laubach partitioned between itself and Solms-Sonnenwalde 1561; between itself, Solms-Baruth and Solms-Rödelheim 1607; and between itself and...

 and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel

Hesse-Kassel

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel was a state in the Holy Roman Empire under Imperial immediacy that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. His eldest son William IV inherited the northern half and the...

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Life

Agnes was a daughter of Count John George of Solms-Laubach (1546–1600) from his marriage to Margaret (1554–1606), daughter of Count George I of Schönburg-Glauchau.

She married at the age of 15, on 23 September 1593, in Kassel

Kassel

Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

 Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel

Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

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, whom she had met at the wedding of his oldest sister Anna Maria

Anna Maria of Hesse-Kassel

Anna Maria of Hesse-Kassel was a princess of Hesse-Kassel by birth and by marriage Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken.- Life :...

. Anna's wedding was celebrated in the presence of numerous princely guests. The marriage to the Calvinist

Calvinism

Calvinism is a Protestant theological system and an approach to the Christian life...

 Countess increased Maurice ties with the Calvinist counts of Wetterau

Wetterau

The Wetterau is a fertile undulating tract, watered by the Wetter, a tributary of the Nidda River, in the western German state of Hesse, between the hilly province Oberhessen and the north-western Taunus mountains....

 considerably, although Maurice had chosen Agnes as his wife more out of love than of dynastic calculation.

Agnes was described as exceptionally talented, beautiful and lovable. Matthäus Merian

Matthäus Merian

Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ran a publishing house.-Early life and marriage:...

 made an embroidery of the countess with her husband and children. On the day after Anna's death, Maurice wrote to his great loss to King Henry IV of France

Henry IV of France

Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....

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Offspring

From her marriage with Maurice, Agnes had following children:

• Otto (1594–1617)

married firstly in 1613 Princess Katharina Ursula of Baden-Durlach (1593-1615)

married secondly in 1617 Princess Agnes Magdalena of Anhalt-Dessau (1590-1626)

• Elisabeth (1596–1625)

married in 1618 Duke John Albert II of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg

John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg[-Güstrow] was a Duke of Mecklenburg. From 1608 to 1611, he was the nominal ruler of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; the actual ruler being the regent, his great-uncle Charles I. From 1611 to 1621 John Albert and his brother Adolf Frederick I jointly ruled the whole...

 (1590-1636)

• Maurice (1600–1612)
• William V
  William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
  William V of Hesse-Kassel was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel in the Holy Roman Empire from 1627 to 1637....
  
   (1602–1637), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
  Hesse-Kassel
  The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel was a state in the Holy Roman Empire under Imperial immediacy that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. His eldest son William IV inherited the northern half and the...
  
  

married in 1619 Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (1602-1651)