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Personal data Willem Nassau-Dillenburg van (De Rijke) 


Household of Willem Nassau-Dillenburg van (De Rijke)

(1) He is married to Juliana van Stolberg,.

They got married on September 29, 1531 at Konigstein, Duitsland, he was 44 years old.


Child(ren):

  4. Lodewijk van Nassau  1538-1574
  5. Maria van Nassau  1539-1599
  6. Adolf van Nassau  1540-1568
  12. Hendrik van Nassau  1550-1574


(2) He is married to Walburga van Egmond.

They got married


Child(ren):



Notes about Willem Nassau-Dillenburg van (De Rijke)

Willem de Rijke was de zoon van Jan V van Nassau-Dillenburg en Elisabeth van Hessen-Marburg. Hij huwde aanvankelijk Walburga van Egmont, met wie hij twee kinderen kreeg. Na het overlijden van Walburga huwde hij Juliana van Stolberg. Uit dit huwelijk had hij twaalf kinderen (5 zoons en 7 dochters). Zijn bekendste zoon is Willem van Oranje.


Willem de Rijke was aanvankelijk rooms-katholiek. Later was hij gematigd Luthers. Wel stemde hij er in toe dat zijn zoon Willem een rooms-katholieke opvoeding zou krijgen aan het hof in Brussel. In 1544 was Willem erfgenaam geworden van het prinsdom Oranje, op voorwaarde dat hij aan het hof in Brussel zou worden opgevoed. Willem de Rijke bracht zijn zoon zelf naar Brussel. Naar de gewoonte van die tijd werd de erfenis van Oranje vooral aanvaard met het oog op de familiebelangen.


Willem de Rijke overleed in 1559. Zijn zoon Jan werd opvolger op de Dillenburg. Het thans in Nederland regerende vorstenhuis stamt af van deze zoon Jan. Daarmee is Willem de Rijke een rechtstreekse voorvader van koningin Beatrix en kroonprins Willem-Alexander.

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Historical events

Birthday April 10, 1487

  • Graaf Maximiliaan (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1482 till 1494 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1487: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 7 » The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
    • May 24 » The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
    • June 16 » Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
    • July 24 » Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
    • August 18 » The Siege of Málaga ends with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.
    • November 25 » Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.

Day of marriage September 29, 1531

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1531: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 26 » The 6.4–7.1 Mw Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
    • October 11 » Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
    • October 28 » Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.
    • November 23 » The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
    • December 9 » The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.

Day of death October 6, 1559

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1559: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 15 » Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
    • April 3 » The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
    • May 2 » John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
    • June 30 » King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery.
    • August 22 » Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
    • December 25 » Pope Pius IV is elected.


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