Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg (also known as ''Adolph of Nassau-Dillenburg''; 23 January 1629 – 19 December 1676) was the founder of the short-lived ''Nassau-Schaumburg'' line. He was the son of Louis Henry (1594–1662), Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, from 1654 Prince of

Nassau-Dillenburg The County of Nassau was a German state within the Holy Roman Empire from the period of the formal recognition of the countly title in 1159 (though "de facto" sovereignty began in 1125) until the declaration of the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 with ...

, and his first wife Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1588–1651). As a younger son he received only the district of

Driedorf Driedorf is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Driedorf lies from 416 to 642 m above sea level on a Table (landform), tableland in the high Westerwald. Mademühlen Mademühlen has about 1,000 inhabitants ...

from his father's inheritance. In 1653, he married Elisabeth Charlotte (1640–1707), the daughter of

Peter Melander, Count of Holzappel Peter Melander, Count of Holzappel (8 February 1589 – 17 May 1648) was a German general who was a Protestant military leader in the Thirty Years' War until 1640 when he switched sides and even became Chief of the imperial army from 1647 unt ...

. Via her, he inherited the

County of Holzappel The County of Holzappel (German: ''Grafschaft Holzappel'') was an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was centered on the town of Holzappel. It was founded in 1643 by Peter ...

and the Lordship of Schaumburg. He then styled himself ''Count of Nassau-Schaumburg'' and became the founder of the Nassau-Schaumburg line. However, all his sons predeceased him, and when he died in 1676, Holzappel and Schaumburg fell to his son-in-law

Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym (Bernburg, 28 June 1669 – Bad Ems, 17 May 1727), was a German prince of the House of Ascania. The second son of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg and Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, he marrie ...

, the founder of the Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym line. Adolph and Elisabeth Charlotte had the following children: * Catherine (b. 1659) * Agnes (b. 1660) * William Louis (b. 1661) * Ernestine Charlotte (1662–1732), married: *# in 1678 William Maurice of Nassau-Siegen (1649–1691) *# Frederick Philip of Geuder-Rabensteiner (d. 13 May 1727), Councillor and Hofmeister at the court in

Bernburg Bernburg (Saale) () is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, capital of the Salzlandkreis district. The former residence of the Anhalt-Bernburg princes is known for its Renaissance castle. Geography The town centre is situated in the fertile Magdeb ...

* Joan Elisabeth (1663 – 9 February 1700), married in 1692 to Count Frederick Adolph of Lippe-Detmold * Louise Henriette (1665-1665) * Charles Henry (b. 1670) * Charlotte (1673–1700), married in 1692 to

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References

* Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber: ''Allgemeine encyklopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer Folge'', Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1818, p. 430
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* Princes of Nassau House of Nassau-Schaumburg 1629 births 1676 deaths 17th-century German nobility {{Germany-noble-stub