Sophia Eleonore of Saxony

She was born in Dresden. Her two sisters were Marie Elisabeth and Magdalene Sibylle. Her brothers were Johann Georg, August, Christian, and Maurice.

She married Landgrave Georg II of Hesse-Darmstadt on April 1, 1627 in Torgau, aged seventeen.[1] In the middle of Thirty Years' War their marriage was lavishly celebrated with the first opera in German language. They had fifteen children; she raised them as strict Lutherans. However, her daughter Elisabeth Amalie, later Electress Palatine, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1653.

Sophie Eleonore showed huge interest in antiquarian books which she collected. Her contribution to the Hesse-Darmstadt court library is still visible today. She survived her husband by ten years and died in Darmstadt.

She had the following children with George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt:

• Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630–1678)
• George, married Dorothea Augusta, Duchess of Holstein-Sonderborg; died in 1676 in Vöhl
• John
• Magdalene Sibylle
• Sophia Eleonore, married William Christoph, Landgrave of Hessen-Homburg
• Elisabeth Amalie, married Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine
• Louise Christine (1636–1697), married Christoph Louis, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg[1]
• Anna Maria
• Anna Sophia, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
• Amalia Juliana
• Stillborn daughter
• Henrike Dorothea
• Augusta Philippina
• Agnes
• Marie Hedwig (1647–1680), married Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen