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'Elisabeth Amalie von Hessen-Darmstadt' (Giessen, March 20 1635 – Neuburg an der Donau, August 4 1709) was a princess of Hesse-Darmstadt and wife of the Prince-elector of the Palatinate.
She was a daughter of George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Sophia Eleonore of Saxony.
On September 3 1653 she married at Langenschwalbach to Count palatine Philip William of Neuburg, who later became Prince-elector of the Palatinate.
They had 17 children :

★ Eleonor Madeleine (1655 – 1720), married in 1676 Leopold I of Austria

★ Maria Adelheid Anna (Neuburg january 6 1656 – Düsseldorf december 22 1656)

★ Sophia Elisabeth (Düsseldorf May 25 1657 – february 7 1658)

★ Johann Wilhelm Josef (1658 – 1716), Elector Palatine 1690-1716

★ Wolfgang George Frederik (Düsseldorf June 5 1659 – Vienna june 4 1683), elect of Wrocław 1682-1683

★ Ludwig Anton (Düsseldorf june 9 1660 – Liege May 4 1694), bishop of van Worms 1693-1694

★ Karl Philip (1661 – 1742), Elector Palatine 1716-1742

★ Alexander Sigismund (Neuburg april 16 1663 – Augsburg january 24 1737), bishop of Augsburg 1691-1737

★ Franz Ludwig (Neuburg july 18 1664 – Wrocław april 6 1732), archbishop en Count palatine of Trier 1716-1729 and Mainz 1729-1732

★ Frederik Wilhelm (Düsseldorf 1665 – Mainz 1689)

★ Maria Sophia Elisabeth (1666 – 1699); married in 1687 to Peter II of Portugal

★ Maria Anna (1667 - 1740) married in 1690 to Charles II of Spain

★ Philip Wilhelm August (Neuburg november 19 1668 – Reichstadt april 5 1693), married in 1690 to Anna Maria Francisca van Saksen-Lauenburg.

★ Dorothea Sophie (1670 – 1748), married in 1690 to Odoardo II Farnese, Duke of Parma, and was the mother of Elisabeth of Parma, future queen of Spain.

★ Hedwig Elisabeth Amalia (1673 – 1722), married in 1691 to crown prince Jakub Ludwik Sobieski of Poland.

★ Johan (Düsseldorf 1675 - 1675)

★ Leopoldine Eleonora Jozefa (Neuburg 1679 – Düsseldorf 1693)