Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg

German nobleman

Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg

Born	(1629-01-23)23 January 1629
Died	19 December 1676(1676-12-19) (aged 47)
Noble family	House of Nassau
Spouse(s)	Elisabeth Charlotte, Countess of Holzappel
Father	Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg
Mother	Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein

Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg (also known as Adolph of Nassau-Dillenburg; 23 January 1629 – 19 December 1676) was the founder of the short-lived Nassau-Schaumburg line.

He was the son of Louis Henry (1594–1662), Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, from 1654 Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg, and his first wife Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1588–1651). As a younger son he received only the district of Driedorf from his father's inheritance.

In 1653, he married Elisabeth Charlotte (1640–1707), the daughter of Peter Melander, Count of Holzappel. Via her, he inherited the County of Holzappel and the Lordship of Schaumburg. He then styled himself Count of Nassau-Schaumburg and became the founder of the Nassau-Schaumburg line. However, all his sons predeceased him, and when he died in 1676, Holzappel and Schaumburg fell to his son-in-law Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym, the founder of the Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym line.

Adolph and Elisabeth Charlotte had the following children:

Catherine (b. 1659)
Agnes (b. 1660)
William Louis (b. 1661)
Ernestine Charlotte (1662–1732), married:
1. in 1678 William Maurice of Nassau-Siegen (1649–1691)
2. Frederick Philip of Geuder-Rabensteiner (d. 13 May 1727), Councillor and Hofmeister at the court in Bernburg
Joan Elisabeth (1663 – 9 February 1700), married in 1692 to Count Frederick Adolph of Lippe-Detmold
Louise Henriette (1665-1665)
Charles Henry (b. 1670)
Charlotte (1673–1700), married in 1692 to Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym

Ancestors

Ancestors of Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg

16. William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen

8. John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

17. Juliana of Stolberg

4. George, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

18. George III, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg

9. Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg

19. Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach

2. Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg

20. Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

10. Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

21. Amalie of Isenburg-Büdingen

5. Anna Amalia of Nassau-Saarbrücken

22. Francis of Manderscheid-Schleiden-Virneburg

11. Erika of Manderscheid-Blankenheim

23. Anna of Isenburg-Neumagen

1. Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg

24. Eberhard, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein

12. William I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein

25. Margaret of Rodemachern

6. Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein

26. Salentin VII of isenburg-Neumagen

13. Johanette of Isenburg-Neumagen

27. Elisabeth of Hunolstein-Neumagen

3. Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein

28. Otto I of Solms-Laubach

14. Frederick Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubach

29. Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

7. Elisabeth of Solms-Laubach

30. John III of Wied-Runkel

15. Agnes of Wied

31. Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen

References

Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber: Allgemeine encyklopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer Folge, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1818, p. 430 (Online)