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William I (of Nassau-Dillenburg),
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known as William the Rich or the Old
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| Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, born in Dillenburg, WC Germany, the son of John V of Nassau. He married first Walburga of Egmond (1506), then Juliana of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1531). He converted to Lutheranism and became a member of the Schmalkaldic League. He inherited the German properties of Nassau as well as a quarrel with the landgraves of Hesse over Katzenelnbogen, which was settled by Hesse getting the land, but Nassau the title. He had five sons, William (the Silent), John VI, Louis, Adolf, and Henry of Nassau, and nine daughters (two from his first marriage) and a bastard son, Godfrey. |
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