Maria of Nassau (1539–1599)
Maria, Countess of Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden and Dietz, was a Dutch noblewoman.Life
She was the second daughter of William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg and Juliana of Stolberg, making Maria a sister of William the Silent. On 11 November 1556 she married count Willem IV van den Bergh in Meurs. Count Willem committed treason against his brother-in-law William by defecting to the Spanish. He and Maria were caught but were quickly freed on William's intervention.
Maria is buried in the crypt of the church at 's-Heerenberg.Issue
Maria and Willem IV van den Bergh had 16 children:
- Magdalena van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Herman van den Bergh Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Frederik van den Bergh Count den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Oswald van den Bergh
- Wilhelmina van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Elisabeth van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Joost van den Bergh Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Adam van den Bergh Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Juliana van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Adolf van den Bergh Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Lodewijk van den Bergh Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Hendrik van den Bergh Count van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg, Lord of Stevensweerd en Stadhouder of Gelre
- Catharina van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg. She married Floris II of Pallandt 2nd Count of Culemborg
- Anna van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
- Elisabeth van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg princess-abdes of Essen
- Charlotte van den Bergh-'s Heerenberg
