Princess Eleonore Philippina of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg[1] (Eleonore Philippina Christina Sophia; 17 October 1712 – 23 May 1759) was the consort of John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, whose two children were both by his first wife, Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne.
Her parents were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Ferdinand Karl, Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort.
Her father, head of the only Roman Catholic branch of the House of Hesse,[2] became ruler of Hesse-Rotenburg in 1725.
She travelled to Turin where her sister Polyxena was the consort of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia.
[3] Her husband had previously been married to Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne, who had died in 1728 after childbirth.