Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Titular Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg and Count of Nassau-Schaumburg
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Place of Birth: Dillenburg, Hesse, Germany
About Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg
- Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg (also known as Adolph of Nassau-Dillenburg; 23 January 1629 – 19 December 1676) was the founder of the short-lived Nassau-Schaumburg line. He was the son of Louis Henry (1594–1662), Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, from 1654 Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg, and his first wife Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1588–1651).
- As a younger son he received only the district of Driedorf from his father's inheritance. In 1653, he married Elisabeth Charlotte (1640–1707), the daughter of Peter Melander, Count of Holzappel.
- Via her, he inherited the County of Holzappel and the Lordship of Schaumburg.
- He then styled himself Count of Nassau-Schaumburg and became the founder of the Nassau-Schaumburg line.
- However, all his sons predeceased him, and when he died in 1676, Holzappel and Schaumburg fell to his son-in-law Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym, the founder of the Alhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym line. Adolph and Elisabeth Charlotte had the following children: Catherine (b.
- 1659) Agnes (b.
- 1660) William Louis (b.
- 1661) Ernestine Charlotte (1662–1732), married: in 1678 William Maurice of Nassau-Siegen (1649–1691) Frederick Philip of Geuder-Rabensteiner (d.
- 13 May 1727), Councillor and Hofmeister at the court in Bernburg Joan Elisabeth (1663 – 9 February 1700), married in 1692 to Count Frederick Adolph of Lippe-Detmold Louise Henriette (1665-1665) Charles Henry (b.
- 1670) Charlotte (1673–1700), married in 1692 to Prince Lebrecht of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym
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