Count of Saarbrücken (1472–1544) and Saarwerden (1527-1544)
Count John Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken (19 October 1472, in Saarbrücken – 4 June 1545, in ibid.) was the posthumous son of Count John II and his second wife, Elisabeth of Württemberg-Urach.[1]
In 1492, he married Elisabeth (1469–1500), the daughter of Count Palatine Louis I of Zweibrücken. They had the following children:
- Ottilie (1492–1554), married John V of Sayn in 1516
- Anna (1493–1565)
- Elisabeth (1495–1559)
- Johanna (1496–1566)
- Margaret (b. 1497)
- Felicitas (b. 1499)
After Elisabeth's death, John remarried in 1506 to Catherine of Moers-Saarwerden (1491–1547). They had the following children:
- Philip II (1509–1554)
- John III, married Adelaide of Kronengracht,
- Margaret (1513–1562)
- Elisabeth (1515–1568)
- Catherine (1517–1553), married in 1537 to Count Emich IX of Leiningen-Dagsburg
- Agnes (b. 1519)
- John Louis (1524–1542)
- Adolph I (1526–1559), married in 1553 to Anastasia of Isenburg-Grenzau
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John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken Born: 19 October 1472 Died: 4 June 1545
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Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
1472-1545
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