Johann VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen


Count John VII of Nassau was Count of Nassau in Siegen and Freudenberg as John I. He was the second son of Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg and his wife Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg.

Family and children

He was married twice. Firstly, he married on 9 December 1581 with Countess Magdalena of Waldeck, daughter of Count Philip IV of Waldeck-Wildungen and Jutta of Isenburg. They had the following children:
  1. Johann Ernst, a general in the Venetian army, involved in the Uskok War;
  2. Count John VIII of Nassau in Siegen
  3. Elisabeth, married on 26 July 1604 to Count Christian of Waldeck
  4. Adolf
  5. Juliane, married on 22 May 1603 to Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel
  6. Anna Maria, married on 3 February 1611 to Count John Adolf of Daun
  7. Johann Albrecht, born and died in 1590
  8. Count William of Nassau in Hilchenbach
  9. Anna Johanna, married on 14 June 1619 Johann Wolfart von Brederode
  10. Frederick Louis
  11. Magdalena, married:
  12. # in August 1631 to Bernhard Moritz von Oeynhausen;
  13. # on 25 August 1642 Philipp Wilhelm zu Inn und Knyphausen
  14. John Frederick, born and died in 1597
Secondly, he married on 27 August 1603 with Duchess, a daughter of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and thus also a granddaughter of Christian III of Denmark. They had the following children:
  1. Prince John Maurice of Nassau
  2. Prince George Frederick Louis married Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, daughter of Emilia of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent and daughter-in-law of António, Prior of Crato.
  3. William Otto
  4. Luise Christiane, married on 4 July 1627 Marquis Philippe de Conflans
  5. Sophie Margarete, married on 13 January 1656 to Count Georg Ernst of Limburg Stirum
  6. Henry
  7. Marie Juliane, married on 13 December 1637 to Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg
  8. , married:
  9. # on 23 April 1636 to Herman Wrangel
  10. # on 27 March 1649 to Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
  11. Bernhard
  12. Christian
  13. Katharine
  14. Johann Ernst
  15. Elisabeth Juliane, married in 1647 to Count Bernhard of Sayn-Wittgenstein
Johann VII and both his wives are buried in the royal crypt in Siegen.