Walburga of Egmont

Countess Walburga of Egmont ( – 7 March 1529), , was a countess from the House of Egmond and through marriage Countess of Nassau-Siegen.

Biography Count John III of Egmont and Countess Magdalene of Werdenberg, Walburga's parents. Portraits by the Master of Alkmaar . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Walburga was born as the eldest daughter of Count John III of Egmont and Countess Magdalene of Werdenberg (from the House of Werdenberg). – Dillenburg, 6 October 1559 ), in Arnhem in 1505, where he accompanied Elector Frederick III the Wise of Saxony. The following year, the marriage was arranged at Siegen with a messenger from Walburga's father.

Count William I of Nassau-Siegen, Walburga's husband. Portrait by Johannes Tideman, 1671. The marriage was consummated at Koblenz on 29 May 1506. The glorious wedding was attended by the archbishops Herman IV of Cologne (Archbishop Herman IV of Cologne was an uncle of Landgravine Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg, the groom's mother.) Henry, the groom's brother, had come over from the Netherlands. Since then William and Walburga had their Residenz in Siegen.

Walburga died on 7 March 1529 and was buried next to her eldest daughter in the crypt of St. John's Church in the Franciscan monastery in Siegen, which her father-in-law had founded.

William's brother Henry suggested the widower to look for a new life companion in the highest princely houses and suggested a princess of Lorraine, "die ein gut heiratgut mitbrächte" ("who brought in a rich marital estate"). to Countess Juliane of Stolberg-Wernigerode (Stolberg, 15 February 1506 Elisabeth (Siegen, October 1515 – Siegen (?), January 1523). Magdalene (Siegen, 6 October 1522 – 18 August 1567), married on 16 July 1538 to Count (1514 – 4 December 1578).