Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg

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

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

Marriage and issue

On 16 June 1559, she married Conrad of Solms-Braunfels. They had the following children:

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.

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