Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen

Countess Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen (1488 – 3 June 1559), , official titles: Gräfin zu Nassau, Vianden und Diez, was a countess from the House of Nassau-Siegen, a cadet branch of the Ottonian Line of the House of Nassau, and through marriage Countess of Wied.

Biography Elisabeth was born in 1488 as the eldest daughter and fifth child of Count John V of Nassau-Siegen and his wife Landgravine Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg. – 18 May 1533 The double wedding of Elisabeth and Mary was held at . A banquet was also held in the city hall in Siegen at which both brides and grooms were present. The feast with the city magistrates was paid for by the brides' father and the city council donated 16 oxen and 19 pigs for the feast.

Elisabeth's husband was the son of Count Frederick IV and Countess Agnes of Virneburg. John succeeded his father together with his brother William III, who relinquished all his rights to the County of Wied to John in 1505. The year later John's brothers, who were clergymen, also renounced their rights to him. Elisabeth's husband died in 1533 and was succeeded by their son John IV. but had then been deposed by papal bull. He then went to Siegen to seek the advice of Elisabeth's brother Count William I the Rich of Nassau-Siegen, and asked him to put in a good word for him with Emperor Charles V. With the Wied Family, the archbishop spent several weeks in Siegen.

Issue From the marriage of Elisabeth and John the following children were born: (26 March 1525 – after 15 June 1581 Great-great-grandparents

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