Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt

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Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (German: Elisabeth Amalie Magdalene van Hessen-Darmstadt; Giessen, March 20, 1635 – Neuburg an der Donau, August 4, 1709) was a princess of Hesse-Darmstadt and wife of the Prince-elector of the Palatinate.

She was a daughter of George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Sophia Eleonore of Saxony.

On September 3, 1653 she married at Langenschwalbach to Count palatine Philip William of Neuburg, who later became Prince-elector of the Palatinate.

They had 17 children :

• Eleonor Madeleine (1655 – 1720), married in 1676 Leopold I of Austria
• Maria Adelheid Anna (Neuburg January 6, 1656 – Düsseldorf December 22, 1656)
• Sophia Elisabeth (Düsseldorf May 25, 1657 – February 7, 1658)
• Johann Wilhelm Josef (1658 – 1716), Elector Palatine 1690-1716
• Wolfgang George Frederik (Düsseldorf June 5, 1659 – Vienna June 4, 1683), elect of Wrocław 1682-1683
• Ludwig Anton (Düsseldorf June 9, 1660 – Liege May 4, 1694), bishop of Worms 1693-1694
• Karl Philip (1661 – 1742), Elector Palatine 1716-1742
• Alexander Sigismund (Neuburg April 16, 1663 – Augsburg January 24, 1737), bishop of Augsburg 1691-1737
• Franz Ludwig (Neuburg July 18, 1664 – Wrocław April 6, 1732), archbishop en Count palatine of Trier 1716-1729 and Mainz 1729-1732
• Frederik Wilhelm (Düsseldorf 1665 – Mainz 1689)
• Maria Sophia Elisabeth (1666 – 1699); married in 1687 to Peter II of Portugal
• Maria Anna (1667 - 1740) married in 1690 to Charles II of Spain
• Philip Wilhelm August (Neuburg November 19, 1668 – Reichstadt April 5, 1693), married in 1690 to Anna Maria Francisca of Saxe-Lauenburg.
• Dorothea Sophie (1670 – 1748), married in 1690 to Odoardo II Farnese, Duke of Parma, and was the mother of Elisabeth of Parma, future queen of Spain.
• Hedwig Elisabeth Amalia (1673 – 1722), married in 1691 to crown prince Jakub Ludwik Sobieski of Poland.
• Johan (Düsseldorf 1675 - 1675)
• Leopoldine Eleonora Jozefa (Neuburg 1679 – Düsseldorf 1693)

Preceded by Wilhelmina Ernestine of Denmark

Electress Palatine 1685 – 1690

Succeeded by Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici