House of Nassau

It is a major European aristocratic family with roots in Luxembourg and the Netherlands .

name is german It originated in Burg Nassau, Rhineland- Palatinate .

Starting from Franken , one of the tribal principals of the East Frank Kingdom , Sijo is considered to be DIDO VON LAURENBURG? ~ 1124.

After the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire and the reign of the Grand Duchy, it began to come to the fore.

In 1255 Balaam and Otto, sons of Heinrich II ("der Reiche" von Nassau 1180-1251?) divided Nassau into two branches. The descendants of Balaam II (1220-1276) are of the Balaam line, and the descendants of Otto I. von Nassau (1224-1290) are of the Otto line . Descendants are the roots of the Nassau dynasty in the Netherlands today .

The Nassau family later split into several lineages, and in 1783, members of the family signed a family agreement (Nassauischer Erbverein), whereby if one of the Balaam and Otto lines became extinct, the other would take over, and the quasi-Salican law was adopted. In the event that there was no male heir, female succession was recognized.

The House of Nassau-Weilburg is usually referred to as this. According to the Prima divisio concluded between Varlaam II and Otto I in 1255, the descendants of Varlaam II became the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg. They were mainly active in the Holy Roman Empire , and Varlaam II's son Adolf became the Count of the Duchy of Austria. He was also elected King of Germany in the imperial election against Albert I of the House of Habsburg . It also produced four Electors of Mainz in the 14th and 15th centuries.[3]

After the Napoleonic Wars ended, in 1816, Duke Wilhelm of Nassau- Weilburg (Wilhelm I. von Nassau 1792-1839) became the first Duke of Nassau. Wilhelm's son, Duke Adolf, took the side of the Austrian Empire when the Prussian-Austrian War broke out, but when the war ended with the Kingdom of Prussia 's victory, the Duchy of Nassau was taken away, and he spent the rest of his life wandering around the German Empire . Then his distant relative, the King of the Netherlands When Willem III died, leaving behind only his daughter Wilhelmina, he ascended the throne as the Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which was in an alliance with the Netherlands but followed the Salica law .

Adolf's son , Guillaume III , had only a daughter, and the eldest daughter, Maria Delide , wanted to move on to the Casa di borbone di parma naturally when Charlotte Woman married Burbong Parma's Felix Confucius . But in 1987, Carlos Hugo 1930 ~ 2010 in the Bourbon Parma family in 1987[4] I have been in the wedding problem of the sons of the Great Duke .[5] It is continuing to this day by fighting the big game and keeping the NASU BILBORK surname.[6]

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Unlike the Balaamites, who were active in the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottons were mainly active in the Low Countries . Otto I had three sons: the eldest son, Henry, inherited Nassau Siegen, the second son, Emiko, inherited Nassau Hadamar, and the third son, Johan, inherited Nassau Dillenburg. John, who inherited Nassau-Dillenburg, died childless, so Henry's descendants inherited Nassau-Dillenburg, and Henry's great-grandson, Engelbert, Count of Dillenburg (Engelbert I. Graf von Nassau-Dillenburg 1370-1442) passed it to the Duchy of Burgundy. He went over to the Valois-Burgundy family and served them, and in return, Johanna Van, heiress of the Count of Breda . He married Johanna van Polanen (1392-1445). Prince Willem the Silent, the father of the Netherlands, is a fifth-generation descendant of Engelbert, and the current King Willem I , the founder of the Dutch Oran-Nasau Dynasty , is a descendant of Prince Willem the Silent's younger brother, Johann VI (Johann VI. von Nassau-Dillenburg 1536-1606). . Prince Willem's lineage was cut off when William III, who was also the king of England and Scotland, failed to obtain an heir from Mary II, and the descendants of John, who continued to rule Nassau-Dilenburg, his original family, became Stadthouder in the Netherlands. He took over the position and ruled.