Moritz Heinrich (Nassau-Hadamar)

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Moritz Heinrich von Nassau-Hadamar

Prince Moritz Heinrich von Nassau-Hadamar (born April 23, 1626 in Hadamar ; † January 24, 1679 ibid) was - after his father, Prince Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar - the second prince of the younger Ottonian line of the House of Nassau in Hadamar.

ancestry

Moritz Heinrich was born in Hadamar on April 23, 1626 , the son of the successful and respected Prince Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar and Princess Ursula, a daughter of Count Simon the Elder of Lippe-Detmold .

Marriages and offspring

Moritz Heinrich was married three times and the father of thirteen children, ten sons and three daughters, of whom only one son and two daughters reached adulthood.

  • 1. Marriage to Ernestine Charlotte von Nassau-Siegen (* October 23, 1623, † August 15, 1668 in Hadamar), marriage on January 30, 1650 in Brussels . The bride was a daughter of Count Johann VIII von Nassau-Siegen and thus a daughter of his cousin.
    • Ernestine Ludovika (born February 17, 1651 in Hadamar, † May 29, 1661 ibid)
    • Johann Lamoral Hermann Franz (* January 21, 1653 in Hadamar, † February 18, 1654 ibid)
    • Philipp Karl (born May 15, 1656 in Hadamar, † July 22, 1668 in Oirschot )
    • Franz Kaspar Otto (born November 29, 1657 in Hadamar, † February 24, 1659 ibid)
    • Claudia Franziska (* June 6, 1660 in Hadamar, † March 6, 1680 in Neustadt an der Waldnaab ), married on July 18, 1677 in Hadamar to Prince Ferdinand August von Lobkowitz (* September 7, 1655, † October 3, 1715)
    • Maximilian August Adolph (born October 19, 1662 in Hadamar, † May 26, 1663 ibid)
  • 2. Marriage to Maria Leopoldine von Nassau-Siegen (* 1652, † June 27, 1675), marriage on August 12, 1669 in Siegen . The bride was the eldest daughter of Prince Johann Franz Desideratus von Nassau-Siegen and thus a niece of his first wife.
    • Leopold Franz Ignaz (born September 26, 1672 in Hadamar, † July 19, 1675 ibid)
    • Franz Alexander von Nassau-Hadamar (born January 27, 1674 in Hadamar, † May 27, 1711 ibid) - successor of the prince
    • Lothar Hugo Lamorald August (born April 4, 1675 in Hadamar, † June 24, 1675 ibid)
  • 3. Marriage to Countess Anna Ludovica von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (born April 11, 1654 in Hachenburg , † April 23, 1692 in Hadamar), marriage on October 24, 1675 in Hachenburg. Anna Ludovica was the older daughter of Count Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid- Blankenheim.
    • Damian Salomon Salentin (* July 24, 1676 in Hadamar, † October 18, 1676 ibid)
    • Wilhelm Bernhard Ludwig (* May 25, 1677 in Hadamar, † October 3, 1677 ibid)
    • Hugo Ferdinand Leonor August (* May 22, 1678 in Hadamar, † April 16, 1679 ibid)
    • Albertine Johannette Franziska Katharina (* July 6, 1679 in Hadamar, † April 24, 1716 in Anholt ), married on July 20, 1700 in Anholt to Prince Ludwig Otto zu Salm (* October 24, 1674, † November 23, 1738)

meaning

Moritz Heinrich's coffin in the royal crypt in Hadamar

The expansion of the city that his father had begun continued under Moritz Heinrich. He was particularly active in the internal structure of the city, civil order, public health and social welfare, but had no supraregional significance like his father.

On July 17, 1663, he continued the foundations for the needy that his father had started by setting up the St. Elisabeth Hospital on what was then Obermarktplatz. The building was opened on November 21, 1663.

Under the company name Der Hegende he was accepted as a member of the Fruitful Society .

religion

Moritz Heinrich was brought up Catholic by his father after the Counter Reformation in Nassau-Hadamar. He was responsible for the new building of the Aegidien Church (1658–1666) of the Franciscan monastery above the city. The princely crypt, in which the first burial took place in May 1661, is located under the choir to this day.

During his reign, in the second half of 1675, the Herzenberg chapel was built in the form of an octagonal room, which, when it was later expanded, formed today's choir.

swell

  • Karl Josef Stahl, Hadamar - City and Castle , 1974

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predecessor Office successor
Johann Ludwig Prince of Nassau-Hadamar
1653–1679 		Franz Alexander
personal data
SURNAME Moritz Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nassau-Hadamar, Moritz Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Nassau-Hadamar
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1626
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadamar
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1679
Place of death Hadamar