Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg

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Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg
Portret van Elisabeth, gravin van Nassau (1542-1603)
Born	(1542-09-25)25 September 1542 Dillenburg
Died	18 November 1603(1603-11-18) (aged 61) Dillenburg
Noble family	House of Nassau
Spouse(s)	Conrad, Count of Solms-Braunfels
Father	William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen
Mother	Juliana of Stolberg

Countess Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg (25 September 1542, Dillenburg – 18 November 1603, Dillenburg) was a daughter of William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen and Juliana of Stolberg and one of the sisters of William the Silent.

On 16 June 1559, she married Count Conrad of Solms-Braunfels at the age of 16. They had 14 children, nine of whom lived to adulthood:

• Philip Frederick (13 October 1560 – 26 June 1567), died in childhood
• Juliana (5 February 1562 – 19 February 1563), died in childhood
• John Albert I (5 March 1563 – 14 May 1623), married Countess Agnes of Sayn-Wittgenstein. They were the parents of Amalia of Solms-Braunfels.
• Eberhard (11 January 1565 – 12 February 1596)
• Elisabeth (18 March 1566 – 28 July 1570), died in childhood
• Ernest (18 November 1568 – 24 August 1595)
• William I (18 April 1570 – 3 February 1635), married Maria Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg
• Otto (3 January 1572 – 23 July 1610)
• Reinhard (27 March 1573 – unknown), married Walburga Anna of Daun and, secondly Elisabeth of Salm
• Philip (29 March 1575 – 20 January 1628)
• Juliana (7 May 1578 – 1634), married Louis II of Sayn-Wittgenstein
• Anna Elisabeth (15 April 1580 – 18 August 1580), died in infancy
• Henry (10 March 1582 – 23 April 1602)
• Anna Maria (3 January 1585 – 19 June 1586), died in childhood

Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, a daughter of her eldest son John Albert I, married her nephew Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.

Maria Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg, the second wife of her son William I, was a daughter of Elisabeth's brother John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg from his second marriage to Kunigunde Jakobäa of Simmern, so Elisabeth was both Maria's aunt and her mother-in-law.

• Genealogy of Nassau

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