John III of Nassau-Weilburg (27 June 1441
[dr. A.W.E. Dek, ''Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau'', Europese Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel, 1970.][A.A. Vorsterman van Oyen, ''Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden tot heden'', A.W. Sijthoff en J.L. Beijers, Leiden en Utrecht, 1882.][Detlev Schwennicke, '' Europäische Stammtafeln. Stammtafeln zur Geschichte europäischen Staaten. Neue Folge'', Marburg 1978-1982.] – 15 July 1480)
was count of Nassau-Weilburg as co-regent with his father. He came from the Walramian branch of the
House of Nassau.
Biography
John was a son of
Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (14 March 1418 – 19 March 1492 in Mainz) was Count of Nassau in Weilburg and shared briefly the regency of the County of Saarbrücken.
Biography
Philip was a son of Philip I (1368 – 1429), and grandson ...
and his wife Margaret of Loon-Heinsberg,
daughter of John III of Loon-Heinsberg, Lord of Heinsberg, and Walburga of Moers.
In 1472 his father appointed John as co-regent of the County of Nassau-Weilburg.
Father and son shared the revenues of the county. John died in 1480, which forced his father to become the sole ruler of the county again. John was buried at
Weilburg.
[Carl Wehrum, ''Chronik der Schlosskirche zu Weilburg'', Weilburg an der Lahn.] His father became the guardian of the children.
Marriage and children
In 1464 John married
Elisabeth "the Handsome" of Hesse (
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
, 14 December 1453
- 22 April 1489),
daughter of
Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse
Louis I of Hesse (german: Ludwig) (6 February 1402 - 17 January 1458), called "the Peaceful", was Landgrave of Lower Hesse (Hesse) from 1413 to 1458.
He was born at Spangenberg, the son of Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse and Margaret, the daug ...
and Anne of Saxony.
Elisabeth was buried at Weilburg.
Children from this marriage:
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Louis I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1473 (?) - 28 May 1523), succeeded his grandfather in 1490.
# Elisabeth, died at a young age.
Sources
* ''This article or an earlier version has been (partially) translated from the
Dutch Wikipedia on 8 September 2018''.
* Michel Huberty, Alain Giraud, F. & B. Magdelaine, ''l’Allemagne Dynastique. Tome III Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg'', Alain Giraud, Le Perreux, 1981.
References
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House of Nassau
1441 births
1480 deaths
15th-century German people