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Philip I, Count of Nassau Wiesbaden Idstein

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Noble family
  
House of Nassau


Name
  
Philip Count

Spouse(s)
  
Adriana of Glymes of Bergen

Father
  
Adolf III of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein

Mother
  
Margaret of Hanau-Lichtenberg

Died
  
16 June 1558(1558-06-16)

Philip I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1490 in Cologne – 16 June 1558) was the only son of Count Adolph III and his wife Margaret of Hanau-Lichtenberg. After his father died in 1511, he ruled Nassau-Wiesbaden and Nassau-Idstein.

In 1514, he married Adriana of Glymes, the daughter of John III of Bergen op Zoom. They had five children:

  • Catherine (1515-1540), married in 1538 to John II of Hohenfels
  • Philip II (1516-1566)
  • Margaret (1517-1596)
  • Adolph (1518-1556), married in 1543 to Françoise, the daughter of Charles I, Count of Ligny
  • Balthasar (1520-1568)

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