Ancestral Trails 2016 » Luise Henriette von NASSAU (1627-1667)

Personal data Luise Henriette von NASSAU 

• She was born on December 7, 1627 in The Hague, Netherlands.
• (Ancestry) : House of Nassau.
• She died on June 18, 1667 in Cologne, Kölln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, she was 39 years old.
• A child of Frederick Henry of ORANGE and Amalia von SOLMS-BRAUNFELS

Household of Luise Henriette von NASSAU

She is married to Friedrich Wilhelm von BRANDENBURG.

They got married on December 7, 1646 at The Hague, Netherlands, she was 19 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Friedrich von PREUSSEN  1657-1713 
2. Carl Emil von BRANDENBURG  1655-1674
3. Ludwig von BRANDENBURG  1666-1687

Notes about Luise Henriette von NASSAU

Louise Henrietta of Nassau (Dutch: Louise Henriëtte van Nassau, German: Luise Henriette von Nassau; 7 December 1627 - 18 June 1667) was a Countess of Nassau, granddaughter of William I, Prince of Orange, "William the Silent", and an Electress of Brandenburg.

Louise Henriëtte was born in The Hague, the eldest daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels. She grew up at the court of her father, the Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders and Overijssel.

Marriage
Louise Henriëtte had to abandon her love for Henri Charles de La Trémoille, Prince of Talmant, son of Henry de La Trémoille, as her mother had royal ambitions for her. However, attempts to conclude an engagement with King Charles II of England came to nothing. Finally she was forced to marry Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620-1688), "the Great Elector," at The Hague on 7 December 1646, her nineteenth birthday.

The Electorate of Brandenburg regarded this marriage as beneficial by reason of the connections with the Orange family it created in the hope of obtaining assistance for Brandenburg's struggle for influence in Pomerania.

The couple lived in Cleves for the first years of their marriage, but they moved to Brandenburg, Frederick William's seat, in 1648. During her marriage, Luise Henriette followed her spouse and traveled between The Hague, Königsberg, Berlin and Cleves on campaigns, inspections, war and battle fields in Poland and Denmark. She acted as her husband's political adviser and was described as a pragmatist. She managed, through correspondence with the Queen of Poland, Marie Louise Gonzaga, to make an alliance with Poland in exchange for the Polish recognition of Prussia as a province of Brandenburg. It was said of her : "Few Electresses had been allowed so much influence". Luise Henriette had a new castle in Dutch style built in Bötzow in 1650-52 and called it Oranienburg, which became the name for the entire town in 1653. She was also involved in the design and development of the Lustgarten in Berlin. In 1663, she installed the first porcelain cabinet in Europe. In 1665, she founded an orphanage with places for 24 children. She was described as truly kind and gentle with a sharp intellect: her advice was vital for her spouse, and their marriage was considered a role model. During time of war, she made great efforts to soften the damages upon society.

With Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, she had six children.

William Henry (1648-1649)
Charles (1655-1674)
Frederick (1657-1713), the first King in Prussia
Amalie (1664-1664)
Henry (1664-1664)
Louis (1666-1687), married Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł

Luise Henriette died in Berlin and was buried in the Berliner Dom.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess_Louise_Henriette_of_Nassau

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