Career
They had fourteen children:
Philipp (b Kassel, 26 September 1604 - killed in battle, Lutter am Barenberge, 17 June 1626). Agnes (b Kassel 14 May 1606 - d Dessau, 2851650), married John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. Herman (b Kassel, 15 August 1607 - d Rotenburg, 25 March 1658), inherited Rotenburg.
Juliane (b Marburg, 7 October 1608 - d Kassel, 11 December 1628).
Sabine (b Kassel, 5 July 1610 - d Kassel, 21 May 1620). Magdalene (b Kassel, 25 August 1611 - d Bedburg, 12 February 1671), married Erich Adolf, Count of Salm-Reifferscheid.
Maurice (b Kassel, 13 June 1614 - d Kassel, 16 February 1633). Sophie (b Kassel, 12 September 1615 - d Bückeburg, 22 November 1670), married Philip I, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe.
Frederick (b Kassel, 9 May 1617 - killed in battle, Kosten, 24 September 1655), inherited Eschwege.
Christian (b Kassel, 5 February 1622 - d Bückeburg, 14 November 1640), Swedish colonel, died after an altercation with General Johan Banér and some other officers. He was probably poisoned. Ernest (b Kassel, 17 December 1623 - d Köln, 12 May 1693), inherited Rheinfels.
Christine (b Kassel, 9 July 1625 - d Kassel, 25 July 1626).
Philipp (b Kassel, 28 September 1626 - d Rotenburg, 8 July 1629). Elisabeth (b Kassel, 23 October 1628 - d Kassel, 10 February 1633).
However, this area remained under Hesse-Kassel"s sovereignty. Herman and Frederick died childless and by 1658, Ernest had inherited all parts of the Rotenburg Quarter.
Nevertheless, in the next 250 years, Rotenburg was divided, merged and again divided, giving rise to cadet branches with names like Hess-Rheinfels-Roternburg, Hesse-Eschwege-Wanfried and Hesse-Rotenburg-Eschwege.
Landgrave Maurice abdicated in 1627, under pressure from the Estates. He retired to Eschwege, where he died in 1632.
