Elisabeth Juliana Francisca of Hesse-Homburg

Elisabeth Juliana Francisca was born at Homburg Castle on 6 January 1681, the fifth daughter of Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Homburg and his second wife Duchess Louise Elisabeth of Courland. Elisabeth Juliana Francisca was baptised on 13 January. , Siegen. Elisabeth Juliana Francisca married at Homburg Castle on 7 January 1702 to Fürst Frederick William Adolf of Nassau-Siegen (, Siegen, 20 February 1680), the eldest son of Fürst William Maurice of Nassau-Siegen and Princess Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Schaumburg. Frederick William Adolf also succeeded his father as count of Bronkhorst, lord of , , and , and hereditary knight banneret of the Duchy of Guelders and the County of Zutphen. Because he was still a minor, he was under the custody and regency of his mother until 1701. Elisabeth Juliana Francisca died in the Nassauischer Hof in Siegen She was buried in the there on 14 November. on 13 April 1708 – , Siegen, In October 1712 Frederick William Adolf and William Hyacinth, the Catholic Fürst of Nassau-Siegen, reached an agreement about their share in the city of Siegen. William Hyacinth ceded the Catholic land to Frederick William Adolf in exchange for an annual pension of 12,000 Reichsthalers. There was even an intention to marry off Maria Anna Josepha, William Hyacinth's underage daughter, to the even younger reformed Hereditary Prince Frederick William, Elisabeth Juliana Francisca's only son. All this was done not in the least to get rid of the troublesome foreign administration. Since April 1707 the Catholic part of the principality of Nassau-Siegen had, by order of the Aulic Council, been under the administration of the cathedral chapter in Cologne, due to the maladministration of William Hyacinth (because the Archbishop of Cologne was in imperial ban at the time, the cathedral chapter governed the Archdiocese of Cologne). Frederick William succeeded his father in 1722 but was under the custody and regency of his stepmother Amalie Louise until 1727. ==Issue==

From the marriage of Elisabeth Juliana Francisca and Frederick William Adolf the following children were born: • Charlotte Frederica (Siegen, 30 November 1702 – Stadthagen, 22 July 1785), married: • in Weimar on 27 June 1725 to Fürst Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen (Köthen, 29 November 1694Jul. – Köthen, 19 November 1728). • in Varel on 26 April 1730 to Count Albrecht Wolfgang of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg (Bückeburg, 27 April 1699 – Bückeburg, 24 September 1748). • Sophia Mary (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 28 January 1704 – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 28 August 1704). • Sibylle Henriette Eleonore (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 21 September 1705 – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 5 September 1712). • Fürst Frederick William II (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 11 November 1706 – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 2 March 1734), succeeded his father in 1722. Married at Ludwigseck Hunting Lodge near on 23 September 1728 to Countess Sophie Polyxena Concordia of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (Berlin, 28 May 1709 – , Siegen, 15 December 1781). • Sophia Elizabeth (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 7 November 1707 – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 5 October 1708). Portret van Charlotte Frederika van Nassau -Siegen (1702-1785).jpg|Princess Charlotte Frederica of Nassau-Siegen (1702–1785). Portrait by Christoph Gottfried Ringe, 1751. Foundation Historical Collections of the House of Orange-Nassau, The Hague. Frederik Willem II van Nassau-Siegen.jpg|Fürst Frederick William II of Nassau-Siegen. Portrait by Franz Lippold, 1733. Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen. ==Ancestors==