Wilhelm Moritz (Nassau-Siegen)

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Wilhelm Moritz von Nassau-Siegen (born January 18, 1649 in Terborg , † January 23, 1691 in Siegen ) was a Count of Nassau-Siegen, from 1664 as Prince of Nassau-Siegen.

family

Wilhelm Moritz was the second of four children of Count Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen (1611–1652) and his wife Maria Magdalena von Limburg-Styrum (approx. 1632–1707). His sister Sophia Amalia was married to Friedrich Casimir Ketteler Duke of Courland .

He married in the February 6, 1678 Schaumburg (1662-1732), daughter of Prince Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Dillenburg-Schaumburg Adolf of Nassau-Schaumburg . She was a granddaughter of the well-known Field Marshal Melander von Holzappel . The two sons emerged from the marriage:

∞ Elisabeth Princess of Hessen-Homburg (* January 6, 1681; † November 12, 1707) with five children, including Friedrich Wilhelm II. (Nassau-Siegen)
∞ Amalie Luise Princess of Courland (* July 23, 1687 - January 18, 1750) with eight children
  • Karl Ludwig Heinrich Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1682–1694)

Life

In 1664 Wilhelm Moritz was raised to the rank of imperial prince. In 1678 the childless Prince Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen installed his nephew and adopted son Wilhelm Moritz as co-regent in his will for the Principality of Nassau-Siegen and the Protestant part of the country. From 1679 until his death in 1691 he succeeded Johann Moritz as ruler of Nassau-Siegen .

Prince Wilhelm Moritz had a gatehouse built at Siegen's Lower Castle and other modifications carried out.

Wilhelm Moritz had his summer residence in Hilchenbach Castle . From 1683 he built a new castle there ( Wilhelmsburg ), but large parts of it were destroyed in a fire in 1689. Today the Hilchenbach City Archives are located there. He had made it to general in the service of the States General and also succeeded his adoptive father Johann Moritz in the Order of St. John .

After the death of Wilhelm Moritz, Ernestine Charlotte took over the guardianship of the minor sons (cf. Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Section 171).

He was initially buried in his tomb in Kleve, but in 1680 he was transferred to the royal crypt of the Lower Castle in Siegen, which he commissioned from the Dutch architect Maurits Post .

literature

  • Alfred Lück: Siegerland and Nederland. Vorländer, Siegen 1981, p. 116.

Web links

predecessor Office successor
Johann Moritz Prince of Nassau-Siegen
1679–1691 		Johann Franz Desideratus

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Schillern in Dohm: Chronology of the general state archive . 1704, p. 308 ( google.de ).
  2. ^ Bernhard Peter; Extract from the genealogy , accessed on January 15, 2020
  3. ↑ Sebastian Schmidt: Glaube - Herrschaft - Discipline: Confessionalization and everyday culture in the offices of Siegen and Dillenburg (1538-1683) , Ferdinand Schöningh 2005, p. 230
  4. ↑ Princely crypt of the Lower Castle in Siegen , on zeitraum-siegen.de , accessed on January 15, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nassau-Siegen, Wilhelm Moritz zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Nassau-Siegen
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1649
PLACE OF BIRTH Terborg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1691
Place of death Wins