Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg, Countess of Wied


Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg was a member of the House of Nassau. She was a daughter of John V of Nassau-Dillenburg and his wife Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg. Her brothers were Henry III of Nassau-Breda, John of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz, Ernest of Nassau and William the Rich. Her sister was Maria of Nassau.

Marriage and issue

She married on 1 February 1506 to John of Wied-Runkel. He was a son of Frederick of Wied-Runkel and Agnes of Virneburg. Her mother-in-law was a sister of Countess Genoveva of Virneburg, who was married to Henry II, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg.
Elisabeth and John had the following children:
  1. Elisabeth. She married in 1527 to Anthony of Isenburg-Büdingen. He was a son of Philip of Isenburg-Büdingen and Amalia of Loon-Rieneck.
  2. John IV. He married in 1543 in Königstein to Catherine, the daughter of Philip II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg and Juliana of Stolberg-Wernigerode, who after Philip's death remarried to William the Rich.
  3. Margaret. She married:
  4. # on 29 September 1523 to Bernard of Bentheim. He was a son of Eberwin II, Count of Bentheim
  5. # on 19 February 1534 to Arnold of Manderscheid-Blankenheim
  6. Walpurga Johanna. She married on 22 January 1528 in Königstein to Louis, Count of Stolberg. He was a son of Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode and Anna of Eppstein-Königstein
  7. Agnes. She married:
  8. # to Caspar of Mansfeld. He was a son of Albert of Mansfeld and Anna of Honstein
  9. # in 1545 to Frederick Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubach. He was a son of Otto of Solms-Lich and Anna of mecklenburg-Schwerin
  10. Genoveva. She married on 28 February 1526 in Königstein to Wolfgang, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg. He was the widower of Dorothea of Regenstein-Blankenburg and, like Walpurga Johanna's husband, he was a son of Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode and Anna of Eppstein-Königstein
  11. Maria. She married on 22 June 1554 to Christopher of Limpurg-Gaildorf. He was a son of William of Limpurg-Gaildorf and Anna della Scala Leiter.