John III, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (5 April 1511 – 23 November 1574) was a son of Count
John Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken and his second wife Catherine of Moers. He succeeded his childless brother
Philip II in 1554 as Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken. He married Adelaide of Kronenkracht and Elisabeth Selz. However, his children predeceased him. When he died in 1574, Nassau-Saarbrücken fell to
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 ...
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House of Nassau
Counts of Nassau
1511 births
1574 deaths
16th-century German nobility
Burials at Stiftskirche Sankt Arnual (Saarbrücken)
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