Sophia Eleonore of Saxony

Sophia Eleonore of Saxony (23 November 1609 – 2 June 1671) was a Duchess (Herzogin) of Saxony by birth and the Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1627 to 1661 through her marriage to Landgrave George II. She was the eldest surviving child of John George I, Elector of Saxony, and Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia. Her daughter Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt became Electress of the Palatinate.

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. They had fifteen children; she raised them as strict Lutherans. However, her daughter Elisabeth Amalie, later Electress Palatine, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1653.

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
• 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