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unusual facts about Philip III, Count of Waldeck



Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

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

Like his father, Philip III of Nassau-Weilburg he was an advocate of the Reformation.

Daniel Mögling

He was personal physician and court astronomer to Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach from 1621 to 1635.

Mailu Island

All the nearby land including the coast of New Guinea was called by the Spaniards Magna Margarita to honour the wife of the king of Spain at that time Philip III, Margaret of Austria.

Oruro, Bolivia

At the time, it was named Real Villa de San Felipe de Austria after the Spanish monarch, Philip III.

Philip III, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

They then made a Grand Tour to Antwerp, Mechelen, Lion, Brussels, Breda and Strasbourg and then to Buchsweiler (now: Bouxwiller in France), the "capital" of Hanau-Lichtenberg, where they visited their relatives.

Philip III, Count of Waldeck

Around 1520 he built a residential wing of the later Goldhausen Castle in Korbach.

Philip III, Count of Waldeck (born: 9 December 1486 at Waldeck Castle in Waldeck; died: 20 June 1539 in Bad Arolsen), was from 1524 to 1539 Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg.

In 1529, the first Lutheran sermon was given in the St. Kilian Church in Korbach; he is portrait on the altar as its donor.

Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach

Philip's first wife was Anna Margaretha of Diepholz; she died childless in 1629 and was buried in the town church at Butzbach.

Philip III also corresponded with the astronomers Kepler and Galileo.

Landgrave Philip III of Hesse-Butzbach (born 26 December 1581 in Darmstadt; died: 28 April 1643) was Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach from 1609 to 1643.

For astronomical studies, he built an observatory in his Landgraviate Castle in Butzbach and had some astronomical instruments made.

Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

In Weilburg, he was the fourth count named Philip, but only the third in Saarbrücken, because his father, Philip III of Nassau-Weilburg never held Nassau-Saarbrücken.

Portuguese Jewish community in Hamburg

The first Sephardic settlers were Portuguese Marranos, who had fled from their own country under Philip II and Philip III, at first concealing their religion in their new place of residence.

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.

Sumiller de Corps

In fact, the Validos of the Habsburg Kings were always their “Sumilleres de Corps” as it happened with the Duke of Lerma and the Duke of Uceda with King Philip III or the Count-Duke of Olivares with King Philip IV.


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