Henriëtte d'Oultremont de Wégimont
Henriëtte Adriana Ludovica Flora Countess d'Oultremont de Wégimont (born February 28, 1792 in Maastricht , † October 26, 1864 at Rahe Castle in Aachen - Laurensberg ) was the second wife of the first Dutch King Wilhelm I.
Henriëtte d'Oultremont de Wégimont was born as one of five children of the Liege Count Ferdinand LFM d'Oultremont de Wégimont and his wife Johanna Susanna Hartsinck, an admiral's daughter. Through her mother she was also related to Apollonius Jan Cornelis Lampsins , nominally Baron of Tobago .
The resentment in the Dutch population against King Wilhelm, which was caused by his refusal to carry out the required reforms, was further intensified when the monarch, who came from the strictly Protestant House of Orange-Nassau , intended to become Queen Wilhelmine of after the death of his first wife Prussia to marry their lady-in-waiting, the Catholic Henriëtte d'Oultremont de Wégimont.
The resistance was so great - Henriëtte was Catholic and came from Belgium - that Wilhelm found it advisable to abdicate on October 7, 1840 in favor of his son Wilhelm II . From then on he assumed the title of King Wilhelm Friedrich Count of Nassau and went to Berlin with Henriëtte and a considerable fortune, where the 71-year-old married the 47-year-old Countess Henriëtte on February 17, 1841, who from now on were married Countess of Nassau called. King Wilhelm I died only two years later. The couple had no children.
Due to her self-sacrificing care for Wilhelm I before his death, she received an allowance from the Dutch royal family until her death and died in 1864 at Rahe Castle in Aachen - Laurensberg .
While all Dutch kings and their wives were buried in the crypt of the New Church in Delft , this was the only exception that was denied. She therefore does not rest by her husband's side, but in the family crypt in the chapel in the park of the Wégimont family palace in Soumagne, Belgium, near Liège.
To this day she is known in the Netherlands under the nickname "Jetje Dondermond" ( Little Henriette Donnermund ).
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| SURNAME | Henriëtte d'Oultremont de Wégimont |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henriëtte Adriana Ludovica Flora Countess d'Oultremont de Wégimont |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | by marriage Dutch queen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maastricht |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1864 |
| Place of death | Rahe Castle , Laurensberg |