Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau

Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm
Born (1832-09-20)20 September 1832
Biebrich
Died 17 September 1905(1905-09-17) (aged 72)
Wiesbaden
Spouse Natalya Alexandrovna Pushkina (m. 1868; d. 1905)
Issue Sophie, Countess de Torby
Alexandrine of Merenberg
Georg of Merenberg
House House of Nassau-Weilburg
Father William, Duke of Nassau
Mother Princess Pauline of Württemberg
Religion Calvinism
Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, Countess of Merenberg. One of the most charming women of her time

Nikolaus Wilhelm, Prince of Nassau (Biebrich, 20 September 1832 - Wiesbaden, 17 September 1905), was the only son of William, Duke of Nassau by his second wife Princess Pauline of Württemberg.[1]

Marriage and issue

He married morganatically in London on 1 July 1868 Natalya Alexandrovna Pushkina (Saint Petersburg, 4 June 1836 - Cannes, 23 March 1913). She was the daughter of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin and wife Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova, and a descendant of Abram Petrovich Gannibal and Petro Doroshenko, Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks, in turn grandson of Mykhailo Doroshenko. She was divorced from Russian General Mikhail Leontievich von Dubelt, by whom she had a daughter. In 1868, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont created her Countess von Merenberg.[2]

They had three children:

Ancestry

References

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