Ludwig II (Nassau-Weilburg)

Ludwig II of Nassau-Weilburg (born August 9, 1565 in Weilburg ; † November 8, 1627 in Saarbrücken ) was Count of Nassau-Weilburg and from 1602 also Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken .

Life

Ludwig was the eldest son of Count Albrecht von Nassau-Weilburg-Ottweiler and Countess Anna von Nassau-Dillenburg (1541-1616). His family moved from Weilburg to Ottweiler in 1575 . After his youth education, he made trips through Europe, which took him to French-speaking Switzerland , France and also to German royal houses. During his visit to Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel , he met his daughter Anna Maria and took a liking to her. He married her on June 4, 1589.

After the father died on November 11, 1593, his inheritance was divided among his three sons: Ludwig received the left-bank areas of the Ottweiler rulership with Homburg , Kirchheim and Lahr . The brothers Wilhelm († November 25, 1597) and Johann Casimir († March 29, 1602) chose the Weilburg lands, which, however, also fell to Ludwig after their death. Ludwig also inherited his uncle Philip III. von Nassau-Saarbrücken († March 12, 1602) and Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Wiesbaden († June 9, 1605), who was the last of his line. Thus the entire possession of the Walram line was united in Ludwig's hands.

Commemorative plaque for the renovation of the King's Cross in Göllheim, 1611

Ludwig moved his seat of government to Saarbrücken Castle . He issued a number of ordinances , took care of a better education of the population (e.g. by founding the Saarbrücken grammar school or promoting elementary schools ), he campaigned for the navigation of the Saar and supported many construction projects. The country's prosperity increased under his rule, but the beginning of the Thirty Years' War also fell during his reign.

He commissioned his registrar Johann Andreae to organize the Saarbrücken archive and the painter Henrich Dors from Altweilnau to draw all of the family's tombs, from which the important epitaphic book grew in 1632. In 1611 he had the ancient royal cross renovated in Göllheim , at the place of death of King Adolf von Nassau († 1298) . A contemporary plaque reminds of this there.

Ludwig had fourteen children, but only four sons who outlived him and took over his inheritance: Wilhelm Ludwig , Johann , Ernst Casimir and Otto .

The since 2000 as Grand Duke of Luxembourg reigning Henri of Nassau is ten times the great-grandson of Ludwig II. Of Nassau-Weilburg.

progeny

Ludwig II married on June 4, 1589 Anna Maria von Hessen-Kassel (1567–1626), daughter of Landgrave Wilhelm IV. Von Hessen-Kassel .

• Wilhelm Ludwig (1590–1640), Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, married Anna Amalie von Baden-Durlach (July 9, 1595 - November 18, 1651), daughter of Margrave Georg Friedrich , on November 25, 1615
• Anna Sabine (1591–1593)
• Albrecht (1593–1595)
• Sophia Amalia (1594-1612)
• Georg Adolf (1595–1596)
• Philip (1597-1621)
• Luise Juliana (1598-1622)
• Moritz (1599–1601)
• Ernst Karl (1600–1604)
• Marie Elisabeth (1602–1626) married Count Friedrich X. von Leiningen-Dagsburg (1593–1651) on August 22, 1624
• Johann (1603–1677), Count of Nassau-Idstein

⚭ on June 6, 1629 Sibylle Magdalene von Baden-Durlach (* July 21, 1605; † July 26, 1644), daughter of Margrave Georg Friedrich

⚭ on December 6, 1646 Countess Anna von Leiningen-Falkenburg (* May 15, 1625 - † December 14, 1668)

• Dorothea (1605-1620)
• Ernst Casimir (1607–1655), Count of Nassau-Weilburg, married Countess Anna Maria von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg on February 22, 1634 (November 1610 - April 14, 1656)
• Otto (1610–1632), Count of Nassau-Weilburg in Neuweilnau

See also

• List of the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg
• List of the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken - Nassau-Saarbrücken-Weilburg line
• Tribe list of the House of Nassau
• House Nassau

literature

• Joachim Conrad:  Ludwig II. Called Felix of Nassau-Saarbrücken. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 856-862.
• Henrich Dors : Genealogia or root register of the noble high and well-born princes, counts and lords of the very loyal house of Nassau including a number of portrait epitaphs . Minerva-Verlag Thinnes and Nolte, Saarbrücken 1983, ISBN 3-477-00060-9
• Hans-Walter Herrmann :  Ludwig II., Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 404 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ernst Joachim:  Ludwig II of Nassau-Weilburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 568.

Web links

• Ludwig II of Nassau-Saarbrücken in the Saarland biographies
• Uta Plisch: Ludwig II of Nassau-Weilburg

predecessor	Office	successor
Albrecht	Count of Nassau-Ottweiler 1593–1627	Wilhelm Ludwig
Philip III	Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken 1602–1627	Wilhelm Ludwig
Johann Casimir	Count of Nassau-Weilburg 1602–1627	Ernst Casimir
Johann Ludwig II.	Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein 1605–1627	Johann