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Personal data Jan (Jan VIII) ""the Youngest" van NASSAU SIEGEN 


Household of Jan (Jan VIII) ""the Youngest" van NASSAU SIEGEN

He is married to Ernestina Yolanda de LIGNE.

They got married on August 13, 1618, he was 34 years old.


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Notes about Jan (Jan VIII) ""the Youngest" van NASSAU SIEGEN

Stamvader van de Rooms-Katholieke tak Nassau-Siegen. Hij studeerde te Genève in 1600, streed 1604
in Hongarije tegen de Turken, werd 1609 ritmeester in Staatse dienst, streed 1610 onder prins
Maurits bij Gulik, werd 1612 kamerheer van keizer Matthias, ging 1613 over tot het katholicisme,
diende 1614 Savoye en verwierf het markiezaat van Monte Caballo. Tenslotte trad hij in Spaanse
dienst: in 1623 bevorderd tot kolonel, 1627 ridder in de Orde van het Gulden Vlies, 1 juli 1629
werd hij keizerlijk veldmaarschalk. Hij kocht 28 maart 1629 de baronie van Renaix (= Ronse), in
Vlaanderen. In 1631 leed hij een zware nederlaag op het Slaak bij Tholen
Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau

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Birthday September 29, 1583

Day of marriage August 13, 1618

  • 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 1618: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 8 » Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
    • May 15 » Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
    • May 23 » The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
    • June 14 » Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
    • July 31 » Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
    • September 18 » The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.

Day of death July 27, 1638



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