She is notable for being the great-grandmother to Anne of Cleves the fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England.

daughter of Eberhard IV "the Younger" of Württemberg, and his wife Henriette, Countess of Montbéliard.

The County of Katzenelnbogen fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse, which was ruled at the time by her husband Henry III of Hesse in Marburg, after he had bought off the inheritance rights of Philipp's granddaughter Ottilie.

The couple had four sons, and two daughters, they were: Anna died on 16 February 1494 from unspecified causes aged 50 in Marburg.

She was laid to rest in St. Elizabeth's Church where her husband would be buried at his own death almost eight years later.