Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg

Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg
Coat of arms of Nassau-Schaumburg
Spouse(s)	Elisabeth Charlotte, Countess of Holzappel
Noble family	House of Nassau
Father	Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg
Mother	Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein
Born	(1629-01-23)23 January 1629
Died

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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)
• Wilhliam Louis (b. 1661)
• Ernestine Charlotte (1662–1732), married:
  1. in 1678 William Maurice of Nassau-Siegen (1649–1691)
  2. 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

Ancestors

Family of Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg

16. William I of Nassau-Dillenburg               8. John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg                       17. Juliana of Stolberg               4. George, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg                             18. George III, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg               9. Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg                       19. Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach               2. Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg                                   20. Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg               10. Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg                       21. Amalie of Isenburg-Büdingen               5. Anna Amalia of Nassau-Saarbrücken                             22. Francis of Manderscheid-Schleiden-Virneburg               11. Erika of Manderscheid-Blankenheim                       23. Anna of Isenburg-Neumagen               1. Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg                                         24. Eberhard, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein               12. William I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein                       25. Margaret of Rodemachern               6. Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein                             26. Salentin VII of isenburg-Neumagen               13. Johanette of Isenburg-Neumagen                       27. Elisaneth of Hunolstein-Neumagen               3. Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein                                   28. Otto I of Solms-Laubach               14. Frederick Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubach                       29. Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin               7. Elisbeth of Solms-Laubach                             30. John III of Wied-Runkel               15. Agnes of Wied                       31. Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg, Countess of Wied

References

• Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber: Allgemeine encyklopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer Folge, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1818, p. 430 (Online)