Charles August; 17 September 1685,
Weilburg
Weilburg is, with just under 13,000 inhabitants, the third biggest town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany, after Limburg an der Lahn and Bad Camberg.
Geography
Location
The community lies in the Lahn valley between the Wester ...
– 9 November 1753) was from 1719 to 1753 Prince 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 ...
.
Charles August was the second son of
John Ernst of Nassau-Weilburg
Johann Ernst of Nassau-Weilburg (Weilburg, 13 June 1664 – Heidelberg, 27 February 1719) was an Imperial Generalfeldmarschall, from 1675 to 1688 Count and from 1688 until his death Prince (Fürst) of Nassau-Weiburg.
Biography
Johann Erns ...
and Maria Polyxena of
Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg. In his youth, he worked as a diplomat for Saxony; for a while he was the Saxon ambassador in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...
. He succeeded his father as Prince in Weilburg on 27 February 1719.
In 1733 and 1734, he commanded the imperial troops on the Rhine as an imperial cavalry general.
In 1737 he assumed the title of Prince, which family had been awarded in 1688. In 1688 the family had not, however, obtained a seat on the princely bench in the
Imperial Diet, and in protest, they had not used their title. In 1737, the seat in the diet was finally awarded and Charles August started using his princely title.
Charles August died in 1753 and was buried in the chapel of Weilburg. He was succeeded by his son
Charles Christian after.
Descendants
Charles August married on 17 August 1723 in Wiesbaden,
Princess Auguste Friederike of Nassau-Idstein (1699–1750), daughter of
George August, Count of Nassau-Idstein. They had the following children:
* Henrietta Maria Dorothea (1724)
* Henrietta Augusta Frederica (1726–1757)
* Christiana Louise (1727)
* Polyxena Louise Wilhelmina (1728–1732)
* Christiana Louise Charlotte (1730–1732)
* Louise Polyxena (born: 27 January 1733; died: 27 September 1764)
: married Prince
Simon August of Lippe-Detmold
*
Charles Christian (1735–1788)
: married firstly in 1760
Princess 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 ...
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 ...
(1743–1787)
: married secondly in 1788 Barbara Giessen of Kirchheim
Ancestors
References
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* ''Nassau'', in: Heinrich August Pierer, Julius Löbe (eds.): ''Universal-Lexikon der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit'', 4th edition, vol. 9, Altenburg 1860, pp 692–700
online at zeno.org
External links
auf www.royaltyguide.nl
* www.thepeerage.com
Princes of Nassau
Generals of the Holy Roman Empire
House of Nassau
House of Nassau-Weilburg
1685 births
1753 deaths
18th-century German military personnel
Burials in the Royal Crypt of Weilburg Schlosskirche
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