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unusual facts about Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg


Émile de Girardin

Émile de Girardin married in 1831 Delphine Gay, and after her death in 1855 Guillemette Josephine Brunold, countess von Tieffenbach, morganatic stepdaughter of Prince Frederick of Nassau.


Abraham Lewinsky

In 1890 he became rabbi to Weilburg, and two years later assumed leadership of the rabbinate of Hildesheim.

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Adolf Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich) (24 July 1817 – 17 November 1905) was the first monarch of Luxembourg from the House of Nassau-Weilburg.

Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

Albert of Nassau-Weilburg-Ottweiler (26 December 1537, Weilburg – 11 November 1593, Ottweiler), was a Count of the House of Nassau.

Albert was the only son of Philip III of Nassau-Weilburg and his second wife Anna of Mansfield.

However, two of them died shortly after their father so that the surviving son of Louis II ruled alone from 1602 onwards.

Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg

Princess Amelia Charlotte Wilhelmina Louise of Nassau-Weilburg (7 August 1776 in Kirchheimbolanden – 19 February 1841 at Schaumburg Castle, near Limburg an der Lahn) was a Princess of Nassau by birth and by marriage Duchess of Anhalt-Bernburg.

She was a daughter of Prince Charles Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and his wife Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

Battle of Göllheim

When the Diet met near Frankfurt the following year, they were discouraged to appoint Albert, thus they elected a cousin of one of the Electors, Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.

Burckhardt Helferich

He escaped Leipzig, and the American occupying forces evacuated him to Weilburg in 1945.

Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg

Louise married Frederick William, Hereditary Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, son of Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg and his wife Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, on 31 July 1788 in Hachenburg.

Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg

Charles August was the second son of John Ernst of Nassau-Weilburg and Maria Polyxena of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg.

City Palace, Berlin

After the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), Frederick William (1620–1688), the "Great Elector", embellished the palace further.

Conrad I of Germany

Severely injured at one of his fights with Arnulf, Conrad died on 23 December 918 at his residence Weilburg Castle.

County of Nassau

In 1255, after the Counts of Nassau acquired the estates of Weilburg, the sons of Count Henry II divided Nassau for the first time.

Courier chess

In 1651 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, gave to Ströbeck a playing board with chess on one side and the Courier Game on the other, and a set of silver pieces.

Ernest Casimir, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

Frederick (1640–1675), married Christiane Elisabeth of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg (1646–1678), daughter of Count Ernest of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg (1599–1649)

Frankfurt-Hanau Railway

Before the building of the line there was a government crisis in Hesse in 1852, because Elector Frederick William expected a bribe of 100,000 thalers from the Bernus du Fay bank before he would sign the appropriate license for the extension of the railway towards Aschaffenburg.

Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau

On 17 May 1803, he succeed as the Prince of Nassau-Usingen when his elder brother, Charles William died without male heirs.

Frederick IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

On 10 October 1746 Hungen, he married Ulrike Louise (1731–1792), the daughter of Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels.

Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Frederick Louis was a son of Prince Frederick William of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1663-1735), and his wife Countess Maria Ludovica Leopoldine of Sinzendorf (1666-1709).

Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Brunswick Monument at Quatre Bras, (Genappe, Belgium) erected by the Brunswick State for the 75th anniversary.

Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Friedrich Wilhelm was married on 28 June 1843 at Buckingham Palace to his first cousin, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, a member of the British Royal Family and a granddaughter of King George III.

Frederick William, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Frederick William of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (20 September 1663 in Hechingen – 14 November 1735 in Hechingen) was the fourth Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and was also an imperial Field Marshal.

Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg

Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (Friedrich Wilhelm; 25 October 1768, The Hague – 9 January 1816, Weilburg) was a ruler of Nassau-Weilburg.

Frederick William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels

When his father died on 18 February 1724, he became Count of Somls-Braunfeld, Greifenstein and Hungen, Tecklenburg, Kriechingen and Lingen, Lord of Münzenberg, Wildenfels, Sonnewalde, Püttlingen, Dortweiler and Beaucourt.

Gerlach I, Count of Nassau

Gerlach I of Nassau (before 1288 – 7 January 1361), Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and Weilnau.

German Free-minded Party

The economists Ludwig Bamberger and Georg von Siemens, as well as the social liberal politician Eugen Richter were among the prime movers of the fusion, in the view of the coming accession of considered "liberal" Crown Prince Frederick William to the throne (which took place only in 1888).

Green’s Balloon at Newcastle

At the time there were a family of Balloonists from London, Charles Green, who flew from London to Weilburg, Duchy of Nassau (Germany) in 1836 and by the time he retired in 1852, he had flown in a balloon more than 500 times.

Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz

Heinrich XIX was born at Offenbach, Grand Duchy of Hesse, elder surviving son of Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1747–1817), (son of Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz and Countess Conradine Reuss of Köstritz) and his wife, Princess Wilhelmine Louise of Nassau-Weilburg (1765–1837), (daughter of Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau).

Henry J. Leir

Since his arrival in Luxembourg in 1933, Leir had become a close financial advisor to the House of Nassau-Weilburg, the rulers of the duchy since 1890.

House of Nassau

1249–1255: Walram II; from 1255–1276: Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, and Weilburg

Hünstetten

Hünstetten borders in the north on the community of Hünfelden, in the northeast on the town of Bad Camberg (both in Limburg-Weilburg), in the east on the town of Idstein, in the south on the town of Taunusstein and in the west on the communities of Hohenstein and Aarbergen (all in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis).

Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel

Invited to Berlin by Frederick William, in 1679 he became director of the laboratory and glass works of Brandenburg.

Langendernbach

Langendernbach is a village in the municipality Dornburg, Limburg-Weilburg district, Hesse, in western Germany.

Louis II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

Louis had fourteen children, including four sons who survived him and his divided his inheritance: William Louis, John, Ernest Casimir and Otto.

Louis II of Nassau-Weilburg (9 August 1565, Weilburg – 8 November 1627, Saarbrücken) was a count of Nassau-Weilburg.

Louis was the eldest son of Count Albert of Nassau-Weilburg-Ottweiler and Countess Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg.

Nassau Castle

Even when Robert I in 1124 inherited the position of the Bishopric of Worms' vogt in Weilburg, whose territory had included the former Königshof Nassau since 914, the conflict was not settled.

Nassau Family Pact

Luxembourg was thus inherited by the Weilburg branch, the only extant branch from that date onwards.

Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

Philip IV of Nassau-Weilburg, also known as Philip III of Nassau-Saarbrücken (14 October 1542 in Weilburg – 12 March 1602 in Saarbrücken) was Count of Nassau-Weilburg from 1559 until his death and since 1574 also Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken.

Phillippe de Rullecourt

He was placed in command of French troops during the 1779 failed invasion of Jersey, as second-in-command to the Prince of Nassau.

Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau

Amalie Charlotte Wilhelmine Louise of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (Kirchheim, 7 August 1776 - Schaumburg, 19 February 1841), married firstly in Weilburg on 29 October 1793 Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and had issue, and married secondly in Schaumburg on 15 February 1813 Friedrich Freiherr von Stein-Liebenstein zu Barchfeld (14 February 1777 - 4 December 1849), and had issue

Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg

Princess Henriëtte van Nassau-Weilburg, then van Nassau (Kirchheimbolanden, 22 April 1780 – Kirchheim unter Teck, 2 January 1857) was a daughter of Prince Charles Christian, Duke of Nassau-Weilburg and Carolina of Orange-Nassau, daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange.

Principality of Orange-Nassau

By German Mediatisation, the county Dietz and its dependencies, and the Lordships Wehrheim and Burbach, all came under the sovereignty of the Duke of Nassau-Usingen and the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma

Robert Hugo was born at Schloss Weilburg in Baden bei Wien, the second but eldest surviving son of Elias of Bourbon-Parma and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1882–1940).

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg

It passed to the Burgraves of Kirchberg in 1715, to the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg in 1799, and to the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg in 1803.

Stadtschloss, Wiesbaden

During the Renaissance the city became a notable spa town, and Philipp Ludwig III commissioned construction of a New City Palace, completed in 1599.

Volkenroda Abbey

From 1994 the "Brotherhood of Jesus" ("Jesus-Bruderschaft") from Hünfelden-Gnadental in the district of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse took over the buildings and set up a community in them.


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