Frederick Louis of Nassau-Ottweiler (13 November 1651 – 25 May 1728) was a member of the

House of Nassau The House of Nassau is the name of a European aristocratic dynasty. The name originated with a lordship associated with Nassau Castle, which is located in what is now Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Nassau in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With t ...

Biography

He was born in Ottweiler, the son of John Louis, Count of Nassau-Ottweiler and Countess Palatine Dorothea Catherine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler. He was count of Nassau-Ottweiler from 1680 until his death. From 1721, he was also Count of Nassau-Idstein; from 1723 also Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken. When he died in

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, without a male heir, his territories fell to his cousin

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of Nassau-Usingen after his death in 1728.

Family

Frederick Louis married on 28 July 1680 with Countess Christiane von Ahlefeldt (1659–95), the daughter of Count Friedrich von Ahlefeldt and his first wife Countess Margarethe Dorothea zu Rantzau (1642-1665). They had eight daughters: * Dorothea Friederike (1681–1691) * Charlotte Marie (1684–1690) * Christiane Charlotte (1685–1761), married first

Charles Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken Charles Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (6 January 1665 – 6 December 1723) was the son of Count Gustav Adolf of Nassau-Saarbrücken and Countess Clara Eleanor of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein. He was born in Saarbrücken, but was brought up by ...

; secondly Frederick III, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg * Louise (1686–1773), married Charles, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Dhaun (1675–1733) * Sophia Amalia (1688–1753), married Georg Friedrich, Burggraf von Kirchberg zu Hachenburg (1683–1749) * Maria (1690–1714) * Dorothea (1692–1740), married Walrad, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Dhaun (1686–1730) * Eleonore (1693–1693) After Christiane's death, Frederick Louis married on 27 September 1697 Countess Louise Sophie of Hanau-Lichtenberg (11 April 1662 in Bischofsheim am Hohen Steg – 9 April 1751 in Ottweiler), the daughter of Johann Reinhard II of Hanau-Lichtenberg and

Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (14 February 1640 – 12 December 1693) was a daughter of Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1598–1654) and his first wife, Countess Palatine Magdalene Catheri ...

. This marriage produced one child, a stillborn son, in 1698.

Ancestry

Counts of Nassau House of Nassau 1651 births 1728 deaths 17th-century German people 18th-century German nobility Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken {{Germany-count-stub