Johann VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen | |
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Born | Dillenburg | 7 June 1561
Died | 27 September 1623 Siegen | (aged 62)
Noble family | Nassau |
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Father | John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg |
Mother | Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg |
Count John VII of Nassau-Siegen (7 June 1561 – 27 September 1623) was Count of Nassau in Siegen. He was the second son of Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg and his wife Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg.
Johann VII founded a military college in the town of Siegen, "expressly to produce an officer corps for Calvinism".[1]
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 . They had the following children:
- John Ernest (21 October 1582 – 16/17 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)
- Elisabeth (8 November 1584 – 26 July 1661), married on 18 November 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
- Johann Albrecht, born and died in 1590
- Count William of Nassau in Siegen (13 August 1592 – 17 July 1642)
- Anna Johanna (3 March 1594 – 23 December 1636), married on 19 June 1619 Johan Wolfert van 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 von Innhausen und Knypphausen
- John Frederick, born and died in 1597
Secondly, he married on 27 August 1603 with Duchess John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and thus also a granddaughter of Christian III of Denmark. They had the following children:
, a daughter of- Prince John Maurice of Nassau (18 June 1604 – 20 December 1679)
- Prince George Frederick Louis (23 February 1606 – 2 October 1674) married Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, daughter of Emilia of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent and daughter-in-law of António, Prior of Crato.
- William Otto (23 June 1607 – 14 August 1641)
- Louise Christine (8 October 1608 – 29 December 1678), married on 4 July 1627 Philippe François de Joux dit de Watteville, Comte de Bussolin, Marquis de Conflans
- Sophie Margaret (16 April 1610 – 18 May 1665), married on 13 January 1656 to Count Georg Ernst of Limburg Stirum
- Henry (9 August 1611 – 7 November 1652)
- Marie Juliane (14 August 1612 – 21 January 1665), married on 13 December 1637 to Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg
- on 23 April 1636 to Herman Wrangel
- on 27 March 1649 to Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
(2 September 1613 – 24 August 1669), married:
- Bernhard (18 November 1614 – 6 January 1617)
- Christian (16 July 1616 – 11 April 1644)
- Catharine (1 August 1617 – 31 August 1645)
- John Ernest (8 November 1618 – 23 November 1639)
- Elisabeth Juliane (1 May 1620 – 13 May 1665), married in 1647 to Count
Johann VII and both his wives are buried in the royal crypt in Siegen.
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References[]
- ^ Parker, Geoffrey (1997). Parker, Geoffrey (ed.). The war in myth, legend and history. In: The Thirty Year's War (2nd ed.). London and New York: Routledge. p. 184. ISBN 0-415-12883-8.
- 1561 births
- 1623 deaths
- Counts of Nassau
- German Calvinist and Reformed Christians
- House of Nassau-Siegen