John VII, Count of Nassau
Count John VII of Nassau (7 June 1561 – 27 September 1623) was Count of Nassau in Siegen and Freudenberg as John I. He was the second son of Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg and his wife Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg.
Family and children
He was married twice. Firstly, he married on 9 December 1581 with Countess Magdalena of Waldeck, daughter of Count Philip IV of Waldeck-Wildungen and Jutta of Isenburg. They had the following children:
- Johann Ernst (21 October 1582 – 27 September 1617), a general in the Venetian army, involved in the Uskok War;
- Count John VIII of Nassau in Siegen (29 September 1583 – 27 July 1638)
- Elizabeth (8 November 1584 – 26 July 1661), married on 26 July 1604 to Count Christian of Waldeck
- Adolf (8 August 1586 – 7 November 1608)
- Juliane (3 September 1587 – 15 February 1643), married on 22 May 1603 to Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
- Anna Maria (3 March 1589 – 27 February 1620), married on 3 February 1611 to Count John Adolf of Daun
- Johann Albrecht, born and died in 1590
- Count William of Nassau in Hilchenbach (13 August 1592 – 18 July 1642)
- Anna (2 March 1594 – 7 December 1636), married on 14 June 1619 Johann Wolfart von Brederode
- Frederick Louis (2 February 1595 – 22 April 1600)
- Magdalena (23 February 1596 – 6 December 1662), married:
- in August 1631 to Bernhard Moritz von Oeynhausen;
- on 25 August 1642 Philipp Wilhelm zu Inn und Knyphausen
- John Frederick, born and died in 1597
Secondly, he married on 27 August 1603 with Duchess Margaretha of Holstein-Sonderburg, a daughter of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg. They had the following children:
- Prince John Maurice of Nassau (18 June 1604 – December 1679)
- Prince George Frederick Louis (23 February 1606 – 2 October 1674) married Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal (1609-1674), daughter of Emilia of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent and daughter-in-law of António, Prior of Crato.
- William Otto (22 June 1607 – 14 August 1641)
- Luise Christiane (8 October 1608 – 19 December 1678), married on 4 July 1627 Marquis Philippe de Conflans
- Sophie Margarete (16 April 1610 – May 1665), married on 13 January 1656 to Count Georg Ernst of Limburg Stirum
- Henry (9 August 1611 – 17 November 1652)
- Marie Juliane (14 August 1612 – 21 January 1665), married on 13 December 1637 to Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg
- Amalie (2 September 1613 – 24 August 1669), married:
- on 23 April 1636 to Herman Wrangel
- on 27 March 1649 to Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
- Bernhard (18 November 1614 – 6 January 1617)
- Christian (16 July 1616 – April 1644)
- Katharine (1 August 1617 – 21 August 1645)
- Johann Ernst (8 November 1618 – 23 November 1639)
- Elisabeth Juliane (1 May 1620 – 13 May 1665), married in 1647 to Count Bernhard of Sayn-Wittgenstein
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Persondata |
Name |
John VII, Count of Nassau |
Alternative names |
Johann VII. Graf zu Nassau-Siegen (German); Johann VII. der Mittlere (German) |
Short description |
Count of Nassau-Siegen (1609-1623) |
Date of birth |
7 June 1561 |
Place of birth |
Dillenburg |
Date of death |
27 September 1623 |
Place of death |
Siegen |