Hedwig of the Palatinate-Sulzbach
Marie Hedwig Auguste of Sulzbach was a Countess Palatine of Sulzbach by birth and by marriage, Archduchess of Austria and by her second marriage, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.Life
Hedwig was a daughter of the Duke and Count Palatine Christian August of Sulzbach from his marriage to Amalie, daughter of Count John VII of Nassau-Siegen.
She was married on 3 June 1665 per cura in the court chapel of Sulzbach to Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria-Tyrol, who after his brother's unexpected death had resigned from his ecclesiastical positions in order to marry. The marriage was never consummated: while travelling to meet his bride, the Archduke fell seriously ill and died in Innsbruck twelve days after the marriage.
Hedwig's second marriage, in Sulzbach on 9 April 1668, was with Duke Julius Francis of Saxe-Lauenburg. Her father had a memorial stone erected in the Sulzbach parish church to commemorate the event. Hedwig had been assured an annual income of at her first marriage; Julius Francis made a deal with the imperial court, in which Hedwig would receive a lump sum instead.
Hedwig died in 1681 and was buried in the White Castle at Ostrov.Issue
Hedwig from her second marriage had the following children:
