John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Count of Saarbrücken (1472–1544) and Saarwerden (1527-1544)

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.^[1]

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-Saarwerden (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 I (1526–1559), married in 1553 to Anastasia of Isenburg-Grenzau

Ancestry

References

1. www.myheritage.com https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-2088060/john-louis-count-of-nassau-saarbrucken-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people. Retrieved 2024-04-05. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)