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Titular count of Nassau-Siegen
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Birth
9 August 1611, Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Arnsberg Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia
Death
27 October 1652, Hulst, Zeeland, Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands (aged 41 years)
Age
41 years
Family
Mother:
Margrethe of Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg
Father:
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
Siblings:
John Maurice
Prince of Nassau-Siegen
William of Nassau-Hilchenbach
Johan Ernst van Nassau-Siegen
John VIII
Count of Nassau-Siegen
George Frederick
Prince of Nassau-Siegen
Children:
William Maurice
Prince of Nassau-Siegen
Countess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen
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Biography
Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen (9 August 1611 in Siegen – 27 October 1652 in Hulst) was Count of Nassau-Siegen from 1611 to 1623. He was a son of Count John VII of Nassau-Siegen and his wife, Duchess Margaret of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1558-1599).
He married on 19 April 1646 to Maria Magdalene (1623 – 26 December 1707 in Siegen). She was a daughter of Georg Ernst of Limburg Stirum (1593-1649) from his first marriage, on 26 September 1591 in Detmold, to Countess Magdalene of Bentheim (1591-1649). Henry II and Marie Magdalene had four children:
- Ernestine (1647-1652)
- William Maurice (1649-1691), who later ruled Nassau-Siegen
- Sophie Amalie (10 January 1650 in Wisch – 15 November 1688 in Jelgava), married in 1678 to Frederick Casimir Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (1650-1698)
- Frederick (1651-1676)
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