County of Nassau-Saarbrücken
County of Nassau-Saarbrücken Grafschaft Nassau-Saarbrücken (German) | |||||||||
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1381–1797 | |||||||||
Nassau-Usingen | 1728 | ||||||||
• Annexed by France | 1797 | ||||||||
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The County of Saarbrücken was an
County of Saarbrücken
Around the year 1080 King Henry IV of Germany vested one Count Siegbert in the Saargau with the Carolingian Kaiserpfalz at Wadgassen on the Saar River and further possessions held by the Bishops of Metz in the Bliesgau as well as in the adjacent Alsace and Palatinate regions as a fiefdom.
In the course of the fierce
When the comital
Saarbrücken received
County of Nassau-Saarbrücken
Philipp I ruled both Nassau-Saarbrücken and
In 1507 Count John Ludwig I significantly enlarged his territory by marrying Catharine, the daughter of the last Count of Moers-Saarwerden and in 1527 inherited the
Only eight years later, Nassau-Saarbrücken was again divided into:
- Nassau-Saarbrücken proper, fell to Nassau-Ottweiler in 1723
- Nassau-Usingenin 1728
- Nassau-Usingen
By 1728 Nassau-Saarbrücken was united with Nassau-Usingen which had inherited Nassau-Ottweiler and Nassau-Idstein. In 1735 Nassau-Usingen was divided again into Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Saarbrücken. In 1797 Nassau-Usingen finally inherited Nassau-Saarbrücken, it was (re-)unified with Nassau-Weilburg and raised to the
The coat of arms combined the lion of the counts of the Saargau with the crosses of the house of Commercy, and was used when the coat of arms of Saarland was created.
Possessions in 1797
- The Principality of Saarbrücken
- County of Ottweiler
- Some villages of the Abbey Wadgassen
- Two-thirds of the County Saarwerden (the bailiwick of Harskirchen, the rest owned by Nassau-Weilburg)
Rulers
House of Leiningen
- 1080–1105 Siegbert
- 1105–1135 Frederick
- 1135–1182 Simon I
- 1182–1207 Simon II
- 1207–1245 Simon III
- 1245–1271 Lauretta
- 1271–1274 Mathilde
House of Broyes-Commercy
House of Nassau
Reign | Name | Born | Died | Family/Relationship to previous ruler |
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1381-1429 | Philip I | 1368 | 2 July 1429 | son |
1429/42-1472 | John II
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4 April 1423 | 25 July 1472 | son |
1472-1545 | John Louis | 19 October 1472 | 4 June 1545 | son |
1545-1554 | Philip II | 25 July 1509 | 19 June 1554 | son |
1554-1574 | John III | 5 April 1511 | 23 November 1574 | brother |
1574-1602 | Philip IV | 14 October 1542 | 12 March 1602 | son of Philip III of Nassau-Weilburg |
1602-1627 | Louis II | 9 August 1565 | 8 November 1627 | brother's son |
1625/7-1640 | William Louis | 18 December 1590 | 22 August 1640 | son |
1640-1642 | Crato | 7 November 1621 | 14 July 1642 | son |
1642-1659 | John Louis | 24 May 1625 | 9 February 1690 | brother |
1642-1677 | Gustav Adolph | 27 March 1632 | 9 October 1677 | brother |
1677-1713 | Louis Crato | 28 March 1663 | 14 February 1713 | son |
1713-1723 | Charles Louis | 6 January 1665 | 6 December 1723 | brother |
1723-1728 | Frederick Louis | 3 November 1651 | 25 May 1728 | son of John Louis |
1728-1735 | Charles | 31 December 1712 | 21 June 1775 | son of William Henry I of Nassau-Usingen, second cousin of Frederick Louis |
1735/42-1768 | William Henry II | 6 March 1718 | 24 July 1768 | brother |
1768-1794 | Louis | 3 January 1745 | 2 March 1794 | son |
1794-1797 | Henry | 9 March 1768 | 27 April 1797 | son |
See also
Sources
- ^ Siebmacher, Johann (1703). Erneuertes und vermehrtes Wappenbuch... Nürnberg: Adolph Johann Helmers. pp. Part I Table 14.
- The Dutch Nassau-Saarbrücken and the German Nassau-Saarbrücken Wikipedia articles
- The divisions of the House of Nassau chart
- Sante, Wilhelm. Geschichte der Deutschen Länder - Territorien-Ploetz. Würzburg 1964.
- Köbler, Gerhard. Historisches Lexikon der Deutschen Länder. München 1988.