Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg (also known as ''Adolph of Nassau-Dillenburg''; 23 January 1629 – 19 December 1676) was the founder of the short-lived ''Nassau-Schaumburg'' line.
He was the son of
Louis Henry
Louis Henry (1911 – 1991) was a French historian. He was the founder of the historical demography and one-place study fields. His 1956 book co-written with Michel Fleury, ''Des registres paroissiaux à l'histoire de la population. Manuel de dép ...
(1594–1662), Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, from 1654 Prince of
Nassau-Dillenburg
The County of Nassau was a German state within the Holy Roman Empire and later part of the German Confederation. Its ruling dynasty, the male line of which is now extinct, was the House of Nassau.
Origins
Nassau, originally a county, developed ...
, and his first wife Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1588–1651). As a younger son he received only the district of
Driedorf
Driedorf is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Driedorf lies from 416 to 642 m above sea level on a tableland in the high Westerwald.
Mademühlen
Mademühlen has about 1,000 inhabitants and lies in the "H ...
from his father's inheritance.
In 1653, he married
Elisabeth Charlotte (1640–1707), the daughter of
Peter Melander, Count of Holzappel. Via her, he inherited the
County of Holzappel
The County of Holzappel (German: ''Grafschaft Holzappel'') was an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
It was centered on the town of Holzappel. It was founded in 1643 by Peter ...
and the Lordship of Schaumburg. He then styled himself ''Count of Nassau-Schaumburg'' and became the founder of the Nassau-Schaumburg line. However, all his sons predeceased him, and when he died in 1676, Holzappel and Schaumburg fell to his son-in-law
Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym
Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym (Bernburg, 28 June 1669 – Bad Ems, 17 May 1727), was a German prince of the House of Ascania.
The second son of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg and Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, he married ...
, the founder of the Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym line.
Adolph and Elisabeth Charlotte had the following children:
* Catherine (b. 1659)
* Agnes (b. 1660)
* William Louis (b. 1661)
*
Ernestine Charlotte (1662–1732), married:
*# in 1678
William Maurice of Nassau-Siegen (1649–1691)
*# Frederick Philip of Geuder-Rabensteiner (d. 13 May 1727), Councillor and
Hofmeister at the court in
Bernburg
Bernburg (Saale) is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, capital of the Salzlandkreis district. The former residence of the Anhalt-Bernburg princes is known for its Renaissance architecture, Renaissance castle.
Geography
The town centre is situated ...
* Joan Elisabeth (1663 – 9 February 1700), married in 1692 to Count
Frederick Adolph of Lippe-Detmold
* Louise Henriette (1665-1665)
* Charles Henry (b. 1670)
*
Charlotte
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(1673–1700), married in 1692 to
Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym
Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym (Bernburg, 28 June 1669 – Bad Ems, 17 May 1727), was a German prince of the House of Ascania.
The second son of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg and Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, he married ...
Ancestors
References
* Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber: ''Allgemeine encyklopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer Folge'', Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1818, p. 430
Online
External links
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Princes of Nassau
House of Nassau-Schaumburg
1629 births
1676 deaths
17th-century German people
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