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Henry, Count of Nassau in Siegen

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Spouse(s)
  
Adelheid of Heinsberg

Name
  
Henry, of

Mother
  
Agnes of Leiningen

Father
  
Otto I of Nassau

Noble family
  
House of Nassau


Died
  
1 August 1343(1343-08-01) (aged 54–55)

Henry, Count of Nassau (Dutch: Hendrik van Nassau-Siegen, German: Heinrich III. von Nassau) (before 1288 – July/August 1343) Count of Nassau-Siegen, of Grimborg, Heiger, Westerwald, later of Molsberg, and after his brother's death of Dillenburg. He was a son of Count Otto I of Nassau and Agnes of Leiningen.

Henry married Adelheid of Heinsberg, daughter of Dirk of Heinsberg and Blankenberg and Johanna of Leuven. They had five children:

  • Agnes of Nassau, married Gerlach, Lord of Isenburg-Limburg
  • Katharina of Nassau, Abbess at Altenburg
  • Gertrud of Nassau, Abbess at Altenburg
  • Otto II of Nassau
  • Henry, born c. 1307. Initially intended for the church, but later married Meyna of Westerburg and became the first Count of Nassau-Beilstein.

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