Maria Von Nassau-Dillenburg (18 March 1539, in

Dillenburg Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district, which is now part of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis. The town lies on the German- Dutch holiday roa ...

– 28 May 1599, in Kasteel

Ulft Ulft () is a town in Oude IJsselstreek in the Achterhoek area in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands. The town has over 10,000 inhabitants and is the biggest town in the municipality Oude IJsselstreek. Until 1 January 2005, Ulft was part of ...

), Countess of Nassau,

Katzenelnbogen Katzenelnbogen () is the name of a castle and small town in the district of Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Katzenelnbogen is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Aar-Einrich. History Katzenelnbog ...

Vianden Vianden ( or (locally) ) is a commune with town status in the Éislek region, north-eastern Luxembourg, with a population of 2,203 as of 2023. It is part of the canton of the same name. Vianden lies on the Our river, near the border between ...

and Dietz, was a Dutch noblewoman.

Life

She was the second daughter of

William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen William I of Nassau-SiegenIn many sources he is called William I of Nassau(-Dillenburg) and in some sources of Nassau-Katzenelnbogen. He was born with the titles Count of Nassau, Vianden and Diez. Two years before his death, he obtaine ...

and

Juliana of Stolberg Juliana, Countess of Stolberg-Wernigerode (15 February 1506 in Stolberg, Saxony-Anhalt – 18 June 1580) was the mother of William the Silent, the leader of the successful Dutch Revolt against the Spanish in the 16th century. Early life and ...

, making Maria a sister of

William the Silent William the Silent or William the Taciturn (; 24 April 153310 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange (), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburg Netherlands, Habsburgs that set off the ...

. On 11 November 1556 she married count

Willem IV van den Bergh Willem IV, Count van den Bergh (1537-1586) was the Dutch Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen from 1581 until his arrest for treason in 1583. Biography Early years Willem was the son of Count Oswald II van den BerghThe name "Van den Bergh" i ...

(1537–1586) in

Meurs Moers (; older form: ''Mörs''; Dutch: ''Murse'', ''Murs'' or ''Meurs'') is a German city on the western bank of the Rhine, close to Duisburg. Moers belongs to the district of Wesel. History Known earliest from 1186, the county of Moers wa ...

. Count Willem committed treason against his brother-in-law William by defecting to the Spanish. He and Maria were caught, but were quickly freed on William's intervention. Maria is buried in the crypt of the church at

's-Heerenberg s-Heerenberg is a city on the Dutch- German border, in the Province of Gelderland, Netherlands. It is located about 5 km north of the German Emmerich, and about south of Doetinchem. It received city rights in 1379. 's-Heerenberg is the lo ...

Issue

Maria and Willem IV van den Bergh had 16 children: * Magdalena van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg (1 Aug. 1557 - 25 May 1579) *

Herman van den Bergh Herman, Count van den Bergh (2 August 1558 in Huis Bergh, 's-Heerenberg, Gelderland – 12 August 1611 in Spa) was a Dutch soldier in the Eighty Years' War, knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece and stadtholder of Spanish Guelders. Life In ...

''Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg'' ( 2 Aug. 1558 - 12 Aug. 1611) * Frederik van den Bergh ''Count den Bergh-'s Heerenberg'' (18 Aug. 1559 - 3 Sep. 1618) * Oswald van den Bergh (16 Jun. 1561 - 17 Jan. 1586) * Wilhelmina van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg (7 Jul. 1562 - drowned in the IJssel near

, 15 Nov. 1591) * Elisabeth van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg (31 Dec. 1563 - 1572) * Joost van den Bergh ''Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg'' (25 jan. 1565 - 8 Aug. 1600) * Adam van den Bergh ''Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg'' (1568 - 7 Nov. 1590) * Juliana van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg (1571 - drowned in the IJssel near Ulft, 15 Nov. 1591) * Adolf van den Bergh ''Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg'' (1572 - 25 May 1609) * Lodewijk van den Bergh ''Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg'' (1 Nov. 1572 - 10 .Jun 1592) * Hendrik van den Bergh ''Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg, Lord of Stevensweerd en Stadhouder of Gelre'' (1573 - 12 May 1638) * Catharina van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg (1578 - 19 Oct. 1640). She married Floris II of Pallandt ''2nd Count of Culemborg'' (1601) * Anna van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg (1579 - 17 Aug 1630) * Elisabeth van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg ''princess-abdes of Essen'' (1581 - 12 Jan 1614) * Charlotte van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg (1582 - 2 Nov 1631) {{DEFAULTSORT:Nassau, Maria Of 1539 births 1599 deaths Dutch nobility Daughters of counts