JR76
Heir Apparent
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- Sweden
The Landgravine Eleonora Catherine of Hessen-Escwege, born a Countess Palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and considered a Princess of Sweden after her brother Karl X ascended that throne, had an illegitimate daughter in 1647 only a few months after her marriage to the Landgrave Friedrich. She had confessed to her husband early on in their marriage that she was pregnant with the French lute player Beschon. Her husband asked her to keep quiet. The daughter named Margareta didn't even live a year.
In a strange twist of fate the couple's daughter Landgravine Juliana, who had been sent to Sweden to be raised and eventually marry her cousin Karl XI, got pregnant with the already married Count Lillie but managed to hide it until she got into labour while riding in a carriage with the Queen Dowager Hedvig Eleonora. Juliana was banished to a country estate and the boy was put in foster care.
Things didn't end there - in 1679 Juliana was found pregnant with the Dutch commoner Johann Jakob Marchand. After the birth of their son they were allowed to marry and Johann was given the title Baron von Lillienburg. The family left for Haarlem and was according to some sources given an estate near IJsselstein by Prince Wilhelm III of Orange.
In a strange twist of fate the couple's daughter Landgravine Juliana, who had been sent to Sweden to be raised and eventually marry her cousin Karl XI, got pregnant with the already married Count Lillie but managed to hide it until she got into labour while riding in a carriage with the Queen Dowager Hedvig Eleonora. Juliana was banished to a country estate and the boy was put in foster care.
Things didn't end there - in 1679 Juliana was found pregnant with the Dutch commoner Johann Jakob Marchand. After the birth of their son they were allowed to marry and Johann was given the title Baron von Lillienburg. The family left for Haarlem and was according to some sources given an estate near IJsselstein by Prince Wilhelm III of Orange.