Ancestral Trails 2016 » Johann von NASSAU-SIEGEN VII (1561-1623)

Personal data Johann von NASSAU-SIEGEN VII 


Household of Johann von NASSAU-SIEGEN VII

He is married to Margarete von SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG.

They got married on August 2, 1603, he was 42 years old.


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    • Notes about Johann von NASSAU-SIEGEN VII

    Count John VII of Nassau (7 June 1561 - 27 September 1623) was Count of Nassau in Siegen and Freudenberg as John I. He was the second son of Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg and his wife Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg.

    Family and children
    He was married twice. Firstly, he married on 9 December 1581 with Countess Magdalena of Waldeck, daughter of Count Philip IV of Waldeck-Wildungen and Jutta of Isenburg. They had the following children:

    Johann Ernst (21 October 1582 - 27 September 1617), a general in the Venetian army, involved in the Uskok War;
    Count John VIII of Nassau in Siegen (29 September 1583 - 27 July 1638)
    Elisabeth (8 November 1584 - 26 July 1661), married on 26 July 1604 to Count Christian of Waldeck
    Adolf (8 August 1586 - 7 November 1608)
    Juliane (3 September 1587 - 15 February 1643), married on 22 May 1603 to Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
    Anna Maria (3 March 1589 - 27 February 1620), married on 3 February 1611 to Count John Adolf of Daun
    Johann Albrecht, born and died in 1590
    Count William of Nassau in Hilchenbach (13 August 1592 - 18 July 1642)
    Anna Johanna (2 March 1594 - 7 December 1636), married on 14 June 1619 Johann Wolfart von Brederode
    Frederick Louis (2 February 1595 - 22 April 1600)
    Magdalena (23 February 1596 - 6 December 1662), married: in August 1631 to Bernhard Moritz von Oeynhausen; on 25 August 1642 Philipp Wilhelm zu Inn und Knyphausen
    John Frederick, born and died in 1597

    Secondly, he married on 27 August 1603 with Duchess Margaret of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg , a daughter of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg. They had the following children:

    Prince John Maurice of Nassau (18 June 1604 - December 1679)
    Prince George Frederick Louis (23 February 1606 - 2 October 1674) married Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, daughter of Emilia of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent and daughter-in-law of António, Prior of Crato.
    William Otto (22 June 1607 - 14 August 1641)
    Luise Christiane (8 October 1608 - 19 December 1678), married on 4 July 1627 Marquis Philippe de Conflans
    Sophie Margarete (16 April 1610 - May 1665), married on 13 January 1656 to Count Georg Ernst of Limburg Stirum
    Henry (9 August 1611 - 17 November 1652)
    Marie Juliane (14 August 1612 - 21 January 1665), married on 13 December 1637 to Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg
    Amalie (ca) (2 September 1613 - 24 August 1669), married: on 23 April 1636 to Herman Wrangel, on 27 March 1649 to Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
    Bernhard (18 November 1614 - 6 January 1617)
    Christian (16 July 1616 - April 1644)
    Katharine (1 August 1617 - 21 August 1645)
    Johann Ernst (8 November 1618 - 23 November 1639)
    Elisabeth Juliane (1 May 1620 - 13 May 1665), married in 1647 to Count Bernhard of Sayn-Wittgenstein

    Johann VII and both his wives are buried in the royal crypt in Siegen.
    SOURCE: Wikipedia

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Birthday June 7, 1561

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1561: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 14 » A celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle.
    • June 4 » The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt.
    • August 19 » Mary, Queen of Scots, who was 18 years old, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
    • September 9 » The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy of Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
    • September 10 » Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
    • October 18 » In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima was fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen; resulting in a draw.

Day of marriage August 2, 1603

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1603: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 24 » James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
    • March 24 » Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
    • July 25 » James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
    • November 17 » English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.

Day of death September 27, 1623



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