Wilhelm (Nassau-Hilchenbach)

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Wilhelm von Nassau-Siegen, Count of Nassau in Hilchenbach

Wilhelm von Nassau-Siegen (born August 13, 1592 in Dillenburg , † July 18, 1642 in Orsoy ) was Count of Nassau in Hilchenbach .

Life

Wilhelm was the fourth son of Count Johann VII von Nassau-Siegen (1561–1623) and his wife, Countess Magdalena von Waldeck-Wildungen (1558–1599).

Wilhelm was brought up in the Reformed faith and studied in Heidelberg and Sedan . After the death of his father in 1623, since his older brother Adolf had already died in 1608, he moved to the second position in the succession and in the will of 1621 had the office of Hilchenbach with the castle Ginsburg , as well as the village of Müsen in the office of Ferndorf and other farms and places were awarded. He became the founder and sole representative of the Nassau-Siegen-Hilchenbach line. For Wilhelm, his father had acquired the water castle in Hilchenbach in 1622 , which was renamed Wilhelmsburg after him , as the Ginsburg had proven to be very dilapidated. His court moved into the Wilhelmsburg , while he himself worked most of the time as a soldier abroad.

Like many of his family members, he entered the Dutch military service against the Habsburgs in the Friulian War (1617) and Catholic Spain, in which he received the rank of field marshal . In particular in the campaigns of 1629 and 1632 when 's-Hertogenbosch and Maastricht were conquered, he distinguished himself and became governor of Heusden and Sluis . In an attempted attack on Antwerp in 1638 he was crushed. In the process he lost his only 17-year-old son Moritz. During the siege of Gennep in 1641 he suffered a serious stomach wound, of which he died a year later. He was buried in Heusden .

progeny

Wilhelm married on January 17, 1619 in Siegen Christina (1596–1646), daughter of Count Georg III. von Erbach , with whom he had the following children:

literature

  • Adriaan WE Dek: Count Johann the Middle of Nassau-Siegen and his 25 children. Self-published, Rijswijk 1962.
  • 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. 128.

Web links

Commons : Count Wilhelm von Nassau-Siegen  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Menn: Hilchenbach. A historical overview. Festschrift for the 250th anniversary of the city. Wesener Nachf., Hilchenbach 1937, p. 24 f.
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nassau-Siegen, Wilhelm; Nassau-Siegen-Hilchenbach, Wilhelm von; Nassau-Hilchenbach, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Nassau in Hilchenbach
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1592
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1642
Place of death Orsoy