John Louis I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (10 April 1567 – 10 June 1596) was the son of Count Balthasar of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein and his wife Margaret of Isenburg-Birstein. He succeeded his father in 1568 as Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden.

Marriage and issue

In 1588, John Louis married Maria of Nassau-Dillenburg, daughter of John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg. They had the following children: * Margaret (1589–1660), married in 1606 with Adolph of Bentheim, son of Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg * Anna Catherine (1590–1622), married in 1607 with

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* Marie Magdalene (1592–1654), married in 1609 Wolfgang Heinrich, Count of Isenburg-Offenbach * Juliana (1593–1605) * John Philip (1595–1599), his successor with his brother John Louis II until his death * John Louis II (1596–1605), his successor, the last male of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein line

Death

John Louis l fell out of the window of his residence,

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, and drowned in the moat during the baptism for one of his children.

Footnotes

House of Nassau Counts of Nassau 1567 births 1596 deaths 16th-century German nobility Counts of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein {{Germany-count-stub