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John Louis, Count of Nassau Saarbrücken

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Noble family
  
House of Nassau


Name
  
John Count

Spouse(s)
  
Elisabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrucken Catherine of Moers

Father
  
Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrucken

Mother
  
Elisabeth of Wurttemberg-Urach

Born
  
19 October 1472 Saarbrucken (
1472-10-19
)

Died
  
4 June 1545(1545-06-04) (aged 72) Saarbrucken

Count John Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken (19 October 1472, in Saarbrücken – 4 June 1545, in ibid.) was the posthumous son of Count John II and his second wife, Elisabeth of Württemberg-Urach.

In 1492, he married Elisabeth (1469–1500), the daughter of Count Palatine Louis I of Zweibrücken. They had the following children:

  • Ottilie (1492–1554), married John V of Sayn in 1516
  • Anna (1493–1565)
  • Elisabeth (1495–1559)
  • Johanna (1496–1566)
  • Margaret (b. 1497)
  • Felicitas (b. 1499)

    • After Elisabeth's death, John remarried in 1506 to Catherine of Moers (1491–1547). They had the following children:

  • Philip II (1509–1554)
  • John III, married Adelaide of Kronengracht,
  • Margaret (1513–1562)
  • Elisabeth (1515–1568)
  • Catherine (1517–1553), married in 1537 to Count Emich IX of Leiningen-Dagsburg
  • Agnes (b. 1519)
  • John Louis (1524–1542)
  • Adolph (1526–1559), married in 1553 to Anastasia of Isenburg-Grenzau

    • References

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