Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (25 October 1768,

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– 9 January 1816,

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) was a ruler of

Nassau-Weilburg The House of Nassau-Weilburg, a branch of the House of Nassau, ruled a division of the County of Nassau, which was a state in what is now Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1344 to 1806. On 17 July 1806, upon the dissolution of t ...

. He was created Prince of Nassau and reigned jointly with his cousin, Prince Frederick Augustus of Nassau-Usingen, who became

Duke of Nassau The Duchy of Nassau (German: ''Herzogtum Nassau'') was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what is now the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. It was a member of the Confederation of the Rhine and later of the G ...

. Frederick William died in January 1816, only two months before his cousin. Both men were succeeded by Frederick William's son,

William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

Family

Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of

Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (Weilburg, 16 January 1735 – Münster-Dreissen, near Kirchheim, 28 November 1788), till 1753 Count of Nassau-Weilburg, was the first ruler of the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg between 1753 and 17 ...

and

Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau (''Wilhelmine Carolina''; 28 February 1743 – 6 May 1787) was a Dutch regent. She was the daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and Anne, Princess Royal. She was regent of the ...

. Wilhelmine Carolina was a daughter of

William IV, Prince of Orange William IV (Willem Karel Hendrik Friso; 1 September 1711 – 22 October 1751) was Prince of Orange from birth and the first hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1747 until his death in 1751. During his whole l ...

and

Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (12 January 1759) was the second child and eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and his consort Caroline of Ansbach. She was the wife of William IV, Prince of Orange, the first heredita ...

. Anne was in turn the eldest daughter of

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and

Caroline of Ansbach , father = John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach , mother = Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach , birth_date = , birth_place = Ansbach, Principality of Ansbach, Holy Roman Empire , death_date = , death_place = St James's Pala ...

Marriage and children

On 31 July 1788 in

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, Frederick William married

Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg , title = Princess consort of Nassau-Weilburg , image = Louisa Isabella Alexandrina Augusta von Kirchberg (1772-1827). Echtgenote van Frederik Willem, vorst van Nassau-Weilburg, en schoonzuster van Augusta Maria Carolina van Nassau-W ...

(

, 19 April 1772 –

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, 6 January 1827). The groom was almost twenty years old and the bride only sixteen. At the time he was still the heir to the principality. His father died on 28 November of the same year and Frederick William succeeded him. Frederick William and Louise Isabelle had four children: *

William, Duke of Nassau Wilhelm (Given names: ''Georg Wilhelm August Heinrich Belgicus''; 14 June 1792, Kirchheimbolanden – 20/30 August 1839, Bad Kissingen) was joint sovereign Duke of Nassau, along with his father's cousin Frederick Augustus, reigning from 1816 unt ...

(14 June 1792 – 20 August/30 August 1839). * Auguste Luise Wilhelmine of Nassau-Weilburg (

, 5 January 1794 –

, 11 April 1796). * Henrietta of Nassau (30 October 1797 – 29 December 1829). Married

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* Friedrich Wilhelm of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (

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, 15 December 1799 –

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, 6 January 1845). He married on 7 June 1840 Anna Ritter, Edle von Vallyemare (

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, 21 June 1802 –

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, 19 July 1864), created Gräfin von Tiefenbach in 1840, widow of Johann Baptist Brunold. Their only daughter was: ** Wilhelmine Brunold ( Altzgersdorf, 5 July 1834 –

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, 12 December 1892), created in 1844 Gräfin von Tiefenbach, married in

on 30 October 1856 and divorced in 1872

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(''

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'' Émile Delamothe) (

, 22 June 1802 –

, 27 April 1881).

Ancestry

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg House of Nassau-Weilburg Nobility from The Hague 1768 births 1816 deaths Burials in the Royal Crypt of Weilburg Schlosskirche