Gustav Adolf (Nassau-Saarbrücken)

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Gustav Adolf von Nassau-Saarbrücken, grave monument in the Saarbrücken castle church; The inscriptions read in German translation from Latin: "Death is sweet for the fatherland. Virtue lives on after death. In memory and in honor of the illustrious parents of the noble, illustrious Count Gustav Adolph, Count in Nassau-Saarbrücken and Saar Werden Mr. Lahr, Wiesbaden and Idstein, the Holy Roman Empire General Wachtmeister, who was born on March 27, 1632 died on 19 October 1677 at a wound that he is fighting for Emperor and the Empire in the battle of Kochersberg in Alsace had contracted ; the illustrious and exalted Countess, Mrs. Eleonore Clara, Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken and Saar Werden, Mrs. von Lahr, Wiesbaden and Idstein, née Countess zu Hohenlohe und Gleichen, woman in Langenburg and Kranichfeld, born on June 16, 1632, died on May 4 May 1709; this monument was erected in 1700 by the son, the illustrious Count Ludwig Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken and Saar Werden, Lord of Lahr, Wiesbaden and Idstein, the Most High King Marshal, Colonel of the Royal Allemand Cavalry Regiment.

Gustav Adolf von Nassau-Saarbrücken (born March 27, 1632 in Saarbrücken , † October 9, 1677 in Strasbourg ) was Count of Saarbrücken and general sergeant of the Holy Roman Empire near the Rhine.

origin

He was the son of Count Wilhelm Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken (1590-22 August 1640) and Margravine Anna Amalie von Baden-Durlach (1595-1651), who named him after the Swedish king (who was still alive at the time) .

Life

During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) the family fled to Metz , where his father died in 1640. In 1643 his mother returned to Saarbrücken with the children.

From 1645 to 1649 he studied in Basel .

He fought on the French side against Spain. In 1658 he fought in the service of the Swedish King Karl X. Gustav , a duke from the Palatinate-Zweibrücken family , against Denmark and its allies. After that he was possibly in imperial service until 1659.

His mother was the guardian until 1651. 1660, after the split with his brothers Johann Ludwig and Walrad , he took over the government in the closed but it Saarbrücken and counties Saarwerden .

He set about rebuilding the country that had been destroyed by war, brought back refugees and recruited Neusiedler for agriculture and skilled workers for the glass industry in Klarenthal (named after his wife, Eleonore Klara , now a district in the west of Saarbrücken).

He could not resist the reunification policy of King Louis XIV of France. He refused to take the feudal oath demanded by the king, even when he was captured by the French in 1673 and brought to Metz. He was not allowed to return to his country after his release the following year.

He therefore took part in the imperial service in 1676 in the fighting in Phillipsburg and in 1677 in Alsace . He succumbed to the injuries he suffered in the battle of Kochersberg (northwest of Strasbourg). After various stops, he was finally buried in the St. Thomas Church in Strasbourg . From 1802 to 1990, his mummified body was exhibited there in a glass sarcophagus. The transfer and final burial in the tomb erected by his wife in the castle church in Saarbrücken did not take place until 1998.

Marriage and children

On June 14, 1662 he married Countess Eleonore Klara von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1632–1709), the daughter of Count Kraft von Hohenlohe und Gleichen, with whom he had seven children:

  • Ludwig Crato (1663–1713), Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
  • Karl Ludwig (1665–1723), Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
  • Sophie Amalie (1666–1736) ⚭ 1686 Count Albrecht Wolfgang von Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1659–1715)
  • Gustav Adolph (1667–1683)
  • Sophie Eleonore (1669–1742)
  • Sophie Dorothea (1670–1748) ⚭ 1720 Count Karl Ludwig Philipp von Salm-Grumbach (1678–1727)
  • Philipp Wilhelm (* / † 1671)

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predecessor Office successor
Wilhelm Ludwig Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
1659–1677 		Ludwig Crato
personal data
SURNAME Gustav Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nassau-Saarbrücken, Gustav Adolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Saarbrücken and general sergeant of the Holy Roman Empire near the Rhine
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1677
Place of death Strasbourg