Engelbert II of Nassau

Engelbert II, known as the Glorious ( born May 17, 1451 Breda, † May 31 1504 in Brussels ), Lord of Breda, Diest, Roosendaal, Nispen and Wouw, was from 1475 to 1504, Count of Nassau- Breda.

Engelbert was the eldest son of Count John IV of Nassau- Dillenburg from the House of Nassau, which he inherited in 1475; Since then he called himself Count of Nassau - Dillenburg and Vianden, Lord of Breda. Since 1486 was Engelbert II governor of Flanders and Governor of Lille, areas that were a few years previously fallen through the Burgundian inheritance of Habsburg, which were made ​​by France but this dispute, so that the Habsburg Emperor Friedrich III. was dependent on a particularly devoted regent of these areas. Obviously, Engelbert made ​​a good job, because in 1496 he also received the post of governor of the county of Holland. He already takes the later position of power of the House of Orange -Nassau in the region anticipated. Nevertheless, Engelbert had to continue traditional interests of the middle and upper Rhine, which is why he married also still very young Cimburga of Baden in January 1469, not yet 18 years old, in Koblenz. However, the marriage remained childless, Engelbert left at his death in 1504, only two illegitimate children, so his brother Johann V. took his inheritance.

1473 he was admitted to the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece.