Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow [SEP] noble family
Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (14 August 1663 – 3 August 1749) was a German noblewoman member of the House of Mecklenburg and by marriage Countess of Stolberg-Gedern.
Born in Güstrow, she was the sixth of eleven children born from the marriage of Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow and Magdalene Sibylle of Holstein-Gottorp. From her ten older and younger siblings, eight survived to adulthood: Marie (by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz), Magdalene, Sophie (
. Barthold Hobe and Lütke Hoben signed the Union of Mecklenburg Knights in 1523 for the family. Friedrich von Hobe was a "Geheimer Rat" and chamber president to Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.
On 29 February 1776 the royal Danish General of Infantry Lewin Ludwig von Hobe (1700–1781) received Danish noble naturalisation. The nephew and adopted son Christian Friedrich Rudolph Baron af Gelting, Lewin Ludwig Christian Leopold von Hobe, Danish Rittmeister, was raised into the Danish rank of Freiherren under the name of "Hobe von