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Countess Mary Magdalene of Limburg-Stirum (1632 – 27 December 1707), nl, Maria Magdalena Gravin van Limburg-Stirum, official titles: ''gravin van Limburg en Bronkhorst, vrouwe van Stirum, Wisch en Borculo, erfbaandervrouw van het hertogdom Gelre en het graafschap Zutphen''), was a
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. In 1661 she succeeded her father as countess of
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, lady of , , and , and hereditary lady banneret of the
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and the
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. Through her
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these possessions came into the possession of this
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.


Biography

Mary Magdalene was born in 1632Menk (2004), p. 197. as the daughter and only child of Count George Ernest of Limburg-Stirum and his first wife Countess
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. The exact date and place of birth of Mary Magdalene are unknown. As the only child of her father, Mary Magdalene was heiress to the County of Bronkhorst and the '' heerlijkheden'' of Wisch, Borculo, Lichtenvoorde and Wildenborch.Lück & Wunderlich (1956), p. 34. Mary Magdalene married at in
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on 19/29 April 1646Menk (2004), p. 191. to Count Henry of Nassau-Siegen (, 9 August 1611 –
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, 27 October/7 November 1652), the fourth son of Count John VII ‘the Middle’ of Nassau-Siegen and his second wife, Duchess
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. Mary Magdalene’s great-great-grandmother Countess Mary of Nassau-Siegen was a younger sister of Henry’s great-grandfather Count William I ‘the Rich’ of Nassau-Siegen. The
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of Count John VII ‘the Middle’ of 1621 bequeathed John Maurice and his younger brothers from their father’s second marriage the district of Freudenberg, some villages in the Haingericht and a third part of the administration of the
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of
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.Huberty, et al. (1981), p. 251. After his older half-brother John ‘the Younger’ had accepted the homage of the city of Siegen for the entire county of
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on 12 January 1624 and had voluntarily ceded the
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over the Hilchenbach district with and some villages belonging to the and
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districts to his younger brother
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on 13/23 January 1624, Henry and his brothers, with the exception of the oldest two brothers John Maurice and George Frederick, accepted only modest
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s. Henry served the
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as an
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in the
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since 1632,Dek (1970), p. 96. in
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sDek (1968), p. 249.Aβmann & Menk (1996).Lück (1981), p. 114. and as
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of Hulst since 1645.Blok (1911), p. 1075. He died in 1652 and was first buried in Terborg. On 17 July 1669Lück & Wunderlich (1956), p. 27 however, mention the date 19 July 1669. he was reburied in the in Siegen. After the death of Mary Magdalene’s mother in 1649, her father remarried at Wisch Castle in Terborg on 13 January 1656 to Countess Sophie Margaret of Nassau-Siegen (Siegen Castle, 16 April 1610 – Wisch Castle, Terborg, 8/18 May 1665), an older sister of Mary Magdalene’s husband.Huberty, et al. (1981), p. 235. That marriage remained childless. After the death of her father in September 1661, Mary Magdalene succeeded him countess of Bronkhorst, lady of Wisch, Borculo, Lichtenvoorde and Wildenborch, and hereditary lady banneret of the Duchy of Guelders and the County of Zutphen. Thus, these properties came into the possession of the House of Nassau. Mary Magdalene died in the in Siegen on 27 December 1707. She was buried on 29 December in the ''Fürstengruft'' there.


Issue

From the marriage of Henry and Mary Magdalene the following children were born: # Ernestine (Wisch Castle, Terborg, 15 November 1647 – Hulst, October 1652). # Fürst William Maurice (Wisch Castle, Terborg, 18/28 January 1649 – ''Nassauischer Hof'', Siegen, 23 January 1691 Jul.), succeeded his uncle John Maurice as
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of Nassau-Siegen in 1679. Married at Schaumburg Castle on 6 February 1678Jul. to Princess
Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Schaumburg Princess Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Schaumburg (20 May 1662 Jul. – 21 February 1732), german: Ernestine Charlotte Prinzessin von Nassau-Schaumburg, official titles: ''Prinzessin von Nassau, Gräfin zu Katzenelnbogen, Vianden, Diez ...
(Schaumburg Castle, 20 May 1662Jul. – ''Nassauischer Hof'', Siegen, 21 February 1732). # Sophie Amalie (Wisch Castle, Terborg, 10 January 1650Jul. –
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, 15/25 November 1688), married in The Hague on 5 October 1675 Greg. to Duke Frederick Casimir of Courland (6 July 1650 – 22 January 1698). # Frederick HenryHuberty, et al. (1981), p. 274 names him Frédéric. The given name Friedrich Heinrich in Menk (2004), p. 192, Lück (1981), p. 113 and Lück & Wunderlich (1956), p. 134. The given name Frederik Hendrik in Dek (1970), p. 96 and Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 127. The given name Frederik Hendrik/Friedrich Heinrich in Blok (1911), p. 902. (Wisch Castle, Terborg, 11 November 1651 –
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, 4 September 1676), was a colonel in the Dutch States Army. The sons William Maurice and Frederick Henry were
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by their uncle John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen after the death of their father.Lück (1981), p. 116. William Maurice, Sophie Amalie and Frederick Henry were elevated to the rank and title of prince(ss) in 1664.Huberty, et al. (1981), p. 273.


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Sources

* * * (1911). "Frederik Hendrik, Friedrich Heinrich". In: en (redactie), ''Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek'' (in Dutch). Vol. Eerste deel. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff. p. 902. * (1911). "Hendrik, Heinrich". In: en (redactie), ''Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek'' (in Dutch). Vol. Eerste deel. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff. p. 1075–1076. * (1911). "Willem Maurits, Wilhelm Moritz". In: en (redactie), ''Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek'' (in Dutch). Vol. Eerste deel. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff. p. 1578. * * * * * * * * * * * * * (2004). "Die Fürstengruft zu Siegen und die darin von 1669 bis 1781 erfolgten Beisetzungen". In: u.a. (Redaktion), ''Siegener Beiträge. Jahrbuch für regionale Geschichte'' (in German). Vol. 9. Siegen: Geschichtswerkstatt Siegen – Arbeitskreis für Regionalgeschichte e.V. p. 183–202. * * * * (1882). ''Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden tot heden'' (in Dutch). Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff/Utrecht: J.L. Beijers.


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