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Mother. Margaret of Nuremberg. Count Walram IV of Nassau-Idstein (1354 – 7 November 1393) was a younger son of Count Adolph I of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein and his wife Margaret of Nuremberg. He inherited Nassau-Idstein when his father died in 1370. When his brother Gerlach II died in 1386, he also inherited Nassau-Wiesbaden.
See also Adolf of Germany on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer . ADOLPH OF NASSAU ( c. 1255–1298), German king, son of Walram, count of Nassau. He appears to have received a good education, and inherited his father’s lands around Wiesbaden in 1276. He won considerable fame as a mercenary in many of the feuds of the ...
The Order of Civil and Military Merit of Adolph of Nassau ( French: Ordre de Mérite civil et militaire d’Adolphe de Nassau) is an order of merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for meritorious service to the Grand Duke, the Grand-Ducal House and Luxembourg. [1] It was founded in 1858 as a chivalric order of the Duchy of Nassau by Adolphe of ...
Agnes of Hesse. Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1307 – 17 January 1370) was a son of Count Gerlach I and Agnes of Hesse. In 1344, his father abdicated in favor of his sons. They ruled jointly until 1355, then divided their inheritance:
Mary of Nassau-Siegen. Count Adolf III of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (by a different way of counting: Adolf IV; 10 November 1443 – 6 July 1511) was a son of Count John II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein and his wife Mary of Nassau-Siegen (1418–1472). After his father's death in 1480, he ruled Nassau-Wiesbaden and his brother Philip ruled Nassau ...
Adolf of Nassau (1540–1568) Adolf of Nassau ( Dillenburg, 11 July 1540 – Heiligerlee, 23 May 1568) was a count of Nassau, also known as Adolphus of Nassau. He was the fourth son and sixth child of William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen and Juliana of Stolberg. He was the second youngest brother of William the Silent .
Gustav Adolf of Nassau-Saarbrücken (27 March 1632, Saarbrücken – 9 October 1677, Strasbourg) was Count of Saarbrücken and Major General at the Rhine of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation . He was the third son of Count William Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1590 – 22 August 1640) and Countess Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach (1595–1651 ...
