Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg | |
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Born | Dillenburg | 25 September 1542
Died | 18 November 1603 Dillenburg | (aged 61)
Noble family | House of Nassau |
Spouse(s) | Conrad, Count of Solms-Braunfels |
Father | William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen |
Mother | Juliana of Stolberg |
Countess Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg (born 25 September 1542 in Dillenburg – died: 18 November 1603 in Dillenburg) was a daughter of William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen and Juliana of Stolberg and was one of the sisters of William the Silent.
On 16 June 1559, she married Count Conrad of Solms-Braunfels. They had the following children:
Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, a daughter of her eldest son John Albert I, married her nephew Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.
Maria Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg, the second wife of her son William I, was a daughter of Elisabeth's brother John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg from his second marriage to Kunigunde Jakobäa of Simmern, so Elisabeth was both Maria's aunt and her mother-in-law.