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Countess Emilia of Nassau (Cologne, April 10 1569 - Geneva, March 16 1629) was the youngest daughter of William the Silent and his second wife Anna of Saxony.

Biography

Emilia is named after Amalia of Neuenahr, who was in charge of her mother's household at the time of her birth. Emilia's mother had an affair with the father of painter Peter Paul Rubens. Due to this infidelity Emilia and her siblings Anna and Maurice were taken out of their mother's care and went to live with their uncle John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg at Dillenburg. Emilia later went to live in Delft with her father and in Friesland with her sister Anna.
After her father's death, she acted as hostess at the court of her brother Maurice. It was on one of those occasions that she met Dom Manuel de Portugal (son of pretender to the Portuguese throne António, Prior of Crato). She secretly wed him in 1597. Maurice was firmly opposed to the marriage and banished her from court for ten years. They made peace with each other later on and she was with him at his deathbed.
Emilia and her husband had ten children. They went to live separately later on when her husband deceided - out of financial reasons - to live at the court of Isabella of Spain in Brussels, archenemy of the hous of Orange. Emilia went to Geneve with her daugters where she died three years later.

Ancestry

Countess Emilia of Nassau: Ancestors in three generations>

Countess Emilia of Nassau	Father: Prince William I of Orange (The Silent) (1533-1584)	Grandfather: Count William I of Nassau-Dillenburg (1487-1559)	Greatgrandfather: Count John V of Nassau-Dillenburg (1455-1516)
			Greatgrandmother: Landgravine Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg (1466-1523)
		Grandmother: Countess Juliana of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1506-1580)	Greatgrandfather: Count Botho VIII of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1467-1538)
			Greatgrandmother: Anna of Epstein-Königstein (1482-1538)
	Mother: Anna of Saxony (1544-1577)	Grandfather: Elector Maurice I of Saxony (1521-1553)	Greatgrandfather: Duke Henry IV of Saxony (1473-1541)
			Greatgrandmother: Catharina of Mecklenburg (1487-1561)
		Grandmother: Agnes of Hesse (1527-1555)	Greatgrandfather: Landgrave Philip I of Hesse (1504-1567)
			Greatgrandmother: Christine of Saxony (1505-1549)

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