Count John II of Waldeck-Landau (7 November 1623 – 10 October 1668), german: Johann II. Graf von Waldeck-Landau, official titles: ''Graf zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, Herr zu Tonna'', was since 1638

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of . He served in the

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Biography

John was born on 7 November 1623 in Waldeck as the fourteenth child of Count Christian of Waldeck-Wildungen and his wife Countess

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.Dek (1968), p. 275.Hoffmeister (1883), p. 60. John's eldest brother, Philip VII, succeeded their father early 1638 as Count of ,Haarmann (2014), p. 26. while John became Count of . He had his ''

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'' in Landau since then. The entire

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, was heavily in debt. The financial difficulties of the county did not change when the counts of Waldeck acquired the in 1640. The

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was sold to

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Frederick I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in 1677. John served as

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in the

. He died in on 10 October 1668. As he was childless, the county of Waldeck-Landau was inherited by his nephew Christian Louis of Waldeck-Wildungen.

Marriages

John married firstly on 17 December 1644 to Alexandrine Maria Gräfin von Vehlen und Meggen (? –

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, 27 February 1662). She was the

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of Count Emich of Daun-Falkenstein.Dek (1968), p. 276. John remarried at on 10 November 1667 to

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, 14 October 1641 – Landau, 22 December 1672), daughter of

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George II of Hesse-Darmstadt and Princess

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