Countess Emilia Antwerpiana of Nassau
Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana ( born December 9, 1581 Antwerp, † September 28, 1657 in Landsberg) was a daughter of Prince William I of Orange and his third wife, Charlotte de Bourbon- Montpensier and by marriage Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken- Landsberg.
Life
Emilia was nicknamed Secunda ( the Second ), to distinguish them from their older half- sister Emilia. Later she was also called simply Amalia. Spent her childhood Emilia at the court of The Hague and Delft under the care of her stepmother Louise de Coligny.
After her sister Louise Juliana had in 1593 married the Elector Palatine Frederick IV, she went with this to Heidelberg.
On July 4, 1616 she married in Landsberg Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken- Landsberg. 1622, the couple fled before the imperial troops of Tilly at the Montfort Castle in Montigny -Montfort in Burgundy that Emilia had received from the estate of her father.
In the following years in Montfort they had to contend with serious financial problems. In the years 1633-1634 she negotiated with her five sisters and her half-brother Frederick Henry to his paternal inheritance. 1638 paid Frederick Henry of his sisters. Dissatisfied with the sum, they continued to negotiate with Frederick Henry and called through years of correspondence more. In addition, Emilia had in a process in Paris with demands of the French relationship to the estate of the house of Chalon, including the counties of Montfort and Charny, deal.
After an objection by the City of Antwerp Friedrich Heinrich yet paid a one-time sum to Emilia out, but in a letter in 1648 they protested again their deep poverty. Since 1645 a widow, she spent her last years mostly on her widow's residence Montfort Castle.
Progeny
- Friedrich (1617-1617)
- Friedrich Ludwig (1619-1681) ∞ 1645 Marie Magdalena of Pfalz- Zweibrücken ( 1621-1672 ), daughter of the Count Palatine John II of Zweibrücken
- Karl Heinrich (1622-1623)