Henry, Count of Nassau in Siegen

Henry, Count of Nassau (Dutch: Hendrik van Nassau Siegen, German: Heinrich von Nassau Siegen) (born before 1288 - died July/August 1347) Count of Nassau-Siegen, of Grimborg, Heiger, Westerwald, later of Molsberg, and after his brother's death of Dillenburg. He was a son of Count Otto I of Nassau and Agnes of Leiningen. ^[1]

Henry married Adelheid of Heinsberg, daughter of Dirk of Heinsberg and Blankenberg and Johanna of Leuven. They had five children:^[2]

• Agnes of Nassau, married Gerlach, Lord of Isenburg-Limburg
• Katharina of Nassau, Abbess at Altenburg
• Gertrud of Nassau, Abbess at Altenburg
• Otto II of Nassau
• Henry I of Nassau-Beilstein, born 11 June 1323. Initially intended for the church, but later married Meyna of Westerburg and became the first Count of Nassau-Beilstein. ^[3]

References

1. ^ De Nederlandsche leeuw: Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde, Volumes 1889-1894, pg 89-91 Google Books
2. ^ House of Nassau at Medieval Lands
3. ^ Fritz Gerlich, Maximilian II (King of Bavaria), Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Historische Kommission, Duncker & Humblot, 1880, p 549. Google Books