Philip of Nassau

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Philip of Nassau

Philip of Nassau

Philipp Graf von Nassau (born December 1, 1566 in Dillenburg , † September 3, 1595 in Rheinberg ) was a Dutch military man.

Life

Philip was the son of Count Johann VI. von Nassau-Dillenburg , the brother of Wilhelm of Orange . Like almost all of his brothers, he came to the Netherlands at a young age , where he soon stood out for his boldness and was given the post of governor in Gorinchem and a colonel over a regiment on foot from the states of Holland in 1585 .

In the Leicester turmoil he took the side of the states and in 1587 received a sizable command on the Dutch border line. In the previous year he had excelled himself in the little war in Cologne , just as he was one of the most brilliant leaders of the small state army in the years to come.

In 1593 he made his name feared with a bold move to Luxembourg , in the next year he led a select Dutch band of 3,000 men to France. The following year he was fatally wounded in an unfortunate equestrian fight on the Lippe in Westphalia and died, well cared for by the Spaniards, the day after on September 3, 1595.

literature

• Pieter Lodewijk Muller :  Philipp, Count of Nassau . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 14 f.
• Uwe Schögl (Red.): Orange. 500 years of portraits of a dynasty from the portrait collection of the Austrian National Library, Vienna and the Dutch Royal Collection The Hague. (Exhibition from February 1 to March 19, 2002, Camineum of the Austrian National Library, Vienna). Austrian National Library et al., Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-01-000028-6 , p. 122.