Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

Prince Heinrich Moritz von Nassau- Hadamar (* April 23, 1626 in Hadamar, † January 24, 1679 in Hadamar ) was - after his father Prince Johann Ludwig of Nassau- Hadamar - the second prince of the younger Ottonian line of the House of Nassau Hadamar.

Descent

Moritz Heinrich was born the son of a successful and prestigious Prince Johann Ludwig of Nassau- Hadamar and Princess Ursula, a daughter of Count Simon of the elders of Lippe- Detmold on 23 April 1626 Hadamar.

Marriage and issue

Moritz Heinrich was married three times, and the father of 13 children:

  • Leopold Franz Ignaz ( born September 26, 1672 Hadamar, † July 19, 1675 in Hadamar )
  • Franz Alexander von Nassau- Hadamar ( born January 27, 1674 Hadamar, † May 27 1711 in Hadamar ) - Successor of the Prince
  • Lothar Hugo Lamorald Soon ( born April 4, 1675 Hadamar, † June 24, 1675 in Hadamar )
  • Damian Solomon Salentin ( born July 24, 1676 in Hadamar, † October 18, 1676 in Hadamar )
  • Wilhelm Bernhard Ludwig ( born May 25, 1677 Hadamar, † October 3, 1677 in Hadamar )
  • Hugo Ferdinand Leonor August (* May 22, 1678 in Hadamar, † April 16, 1679 in Hadamar )
  • Albertine Johannette Franziska Katharina ( born July 6, 1679 Hadamar, † April 24, 1716 in Anholt ), marriage on July 20, 1700 in Anholt with Prince Ludwig Otto Salm- Neufville († November 23, 1738 )

Importance

Under Moritz Heinrich he was continued begun by his father expansion of the city. He was particularly in the internal structure of the city, the bourgeois order, public health and social care active, but had no national importance like his father.

On July 17, 1663 he set the foundations already begun by his father to the needy continued through the establishment of the Hospital of St. Elizabeth at the former Upper Market Square. The building was handed over to its on November 21, 1663.

Under the company name The Hegende he was accepted as a member of the Fruitbearing society.

Religion

Moritz Heinrich was - raised Catholic by his father - after the Counter-Reformation in Nassau Hadamar -. He was responsible for the construction of the Franciscan church in place of the demolished St. Giles ( 1658-1666 ). In it is located under the choir, the royal crypt in which in May 1661 held the first funeral.

Under his reign took place in the second half of the year in 1675 the construction of the Herzberg chapel in the form of an octagonal room, which formed the choir in the later expansion.

Swell

  • Karl Josef steel, Hadamar - City and Castle, 1974
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