Louis, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken
Louis, Prince of Nassau- Saarbrücken( 3 January 1745 in Saarbrücken – 2 March 1794 in Aschaffenburg) was the last ruling prince of Nassau- Saarbrücken.
He ruled from 1768 until the French Revolution.
John III, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
John III, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (5 April 1511 – 23 November 1574) was a son of Count John Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken and his second wife Catherine of Moers.
He succeeded his childless brother Philip II in 1554 as Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken.
He married Adelaide of Kronenkracht and Elisabeth Selz.
However, his children predeceased him.
When he died in 1574, Nassau-Saarbrücken fell to Nassau-Weilburg.
Anna Amalie of Baden-Durlach
Anna Amalia of Baden- Durlach( born: 9 July 1595; died: 18 November 1651 in Saarbrücken) was a Countess of Nassau- Saarbrücken by marriage to William Louis, Count of Nassau- Saarbrücken, and regent of Nassau- Saarbrücken during the minority of her son from 1640.
Henry Louis, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken
" Henry Louis" Charles Albert, Prince of Nassau- Saarbrücken( 9 March 1768 in Saarbrücken – 27 April 1797 near Cadolzburg), was a titular prince of Nassau- Saarbrücken.
He never actually reigned, because the country was occupied by French revolutionary troops from 1793 until after his death.
Charles William, Prince of Nassau-Usingen
Charles William( 9 November 1735 – 17 May 1803) was Prince of Nassau- Usingen from 1775 until his death.
From 1797 until his death, he was also titular Prince of Nassau- Saarbrücken, however, Nassau- Saarbrücken was occupied by France during that period.
He was born in Usingen, the eldest son of Prince Charles of Nassau- Usingen and his wife, Christina Wilhelmina, the daughter of Duke John William III of Saxe- Eisenach.
In 1770, Charles William became Lieutenant- General in the Dutch army.
In 1789, he was promoted to general and in 1790 to colonel of the Walloon regiment and captain of the grenadiers.
In 1775, he succeeded his father as Prince of Nassau- Usingen.
In 1783, he concluded a treaty of inheritance with the princes of Nassau- Saarbrücken, Nassau- Weilburg and Nassau- Dietz( i.e., Orange- Nassau), in which it was agreed that the Nassau lands were indivisible and that mutual succession among the various branches based on primogeniture would be observed.
In 1797, Prince Henry Louis of Nassau- Saarbrücken died childless and Charles William inherited his principality.
However, under the Treaty of Lunéville, the territories on the left bank of the Rhine were lost to France.
The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 compensated Charles William with territories taken from the Electorate of Mainz, the Electorate of Cologne, Electorate of the Palatinate and Hesse.
Charles William died later that year.
Since he had no male heir, he was succeeded by his younger brother Frederick Augustus.
William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken
William Henry, Prince of Nassau- Saarbrücken( 6 March 1718 – 24 July 1768), was Prince of Nassau- Saarbrücken from 1741 until his death.
Charles Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
Charles Louis, Count of Nassau- Saarbrücken
( 6 January 1665 – 6 December 1723) was the son of Count Gustav Adolf of Nassau- Saarbrücken and Countess Clara Eleanor of Hohenlohe- Neuenstein.
He was born in Saarbrücken, but was brought up by Wolfgang Julius of Hohenlohe- Neuenstein the brother of his mother, and continued his studies in Tübingen and Paris.
In the Great Turkish War, he served as an officer in the army of Emperor Leopold I.
When his brother Louis Crato died in 1713 he took up the government in Nassau- Saarbrücken.
That same year he married Christiane Charlotte of Nassau- Ottweiler, the daughter of his cousin Frederick Louis of Nassau- Ottweiler.
During his reign, he promoted the industrialization of his country.
In Warndt he expanded the glass works, which had been established already under Louis II by settling Huguenot refugees.
In Sulzbach, he built a new salt works in 1719 and a graduation tower.
He founded the town of Karlings( now: Carling), which was named after him.
When his second cousin, Count George August Samuel of Nassau- Idstein, died in 1721, he took up government in Nassau- Idstein- Wiesbaden, jointly with his cousin Frederick Louis of Nassau- Ottweiler.
He moved briefly to Wiesbaden in 1722, but returned to Saarbrücken later that year, then moved to Idstein in 1723.
He died there on 21 December 1723 and was buried in the chapel of Idstein.
A plaque in the castle church in Saarbrücken refers to him.
As both his sons died in infancy, the government of Nassau- Saarbrücken was inherited by father- in- law Frederick Louis of Nassau- Ottweiler.
Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Philip IV of Nassau- Weilburg, also known as Philip III of Nassau- Saarbrücken( 14 October 1542 in Weilburg – 12 March 1602 in Saarbrücken) was Count of Nassau- Weilburg from 1559 until his death and since 1574 also Count of Nassau- Saarbrücken.
Both possessions belonged to the Walram line of the House of Nassau.
In Weilburg, he was the fourth count named Philip, but only the third in Saarbrücken, because his father, Philip III of Nassau- Weilburg never held Nassau- Saarbrücken.
William Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
William Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken (18 December 1590, Ottweiler – 22 August 1640, Metz), was a Count of Saarbrücken.
Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (7 April 1621 – 25 July 1642, Straelen), was the oldest son of Count William Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken and his wife, Landgravine Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach.
He succeeded his father as Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1640.
However, as he was still a minor at the time, he stood under the regency of his mother.
Crato was killed in battle at Straelen in 1642.
He was succeeded by his younger brother John Louis.

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