Who married William, Duke of Nassau?

  • Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen married William, Duke of Nassau on . Wilhelm I, Duke of Nassau was 21 years old on the wedding day (21 years, 0 months and 10 days). Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen was 19 years old on the wedding day (19 years, 4 months and 27 days). The age gap was 1 years, 7 months and 14 days.

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  • Princess Pauline of Württemberg married William, Duke of Nassau on . Wilhelm I, Duke of Nassau was 36 years old on the wedding day (36 years, 10 months and 9 days). Princess Pauline of Württemberg was 19 years old on the wedding day (19 years, 1 months and 29 days). The age gap was 17 years, 8 months and 11 days.

    The marriage ended in ?.

William, Duke of Nassau: Marriage Status Timeline

William, Duke of Nassau

William, Duke of Nassau

Wilhelm (Given names: Georg Wilhelm August Heinrich Belgicus; 14 June 1792, Kirchheimbolanden – 20/30 August 1839, Bad Kissingen) was joint sovereign Duke of Nassau, along with his father's cousin Frederick Augustus, reigning from 1816 until 1839. He was also sovereign Prince of Nassau-Weilburg from 1816 until its incorporation into the duchy of Nassau.

Frederick Augustus died in 1816 and Wilhelm inherited the Usingen territories and became sole sovereign of the Duchy of Nassau.

He is the father of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway, consort of King Oscar II and a 3rd cousin of William III of the Netherlands, who left a surviving daughter to rule his main realm, but the crown of Luxembourg went through the male line, looking to 17 generations back, to pass to the Duke of Nassau and then his descendants.

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Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen

Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen

La princesse Charlotte Luise Friederike Amalie Alexandrine de Saxe-Hildburghausen, en allemand nom: Charlotte Luise Friederike Amalie Alexandrine, Prinzessin von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (, Hildburghausen, duché de Saxe-Hildburghausen – , Biebrich, Duché de Nassau) est membre de la maison de Saxe-Hildburghausen et princesse de Saxe-Hildburghausen (et plus tard de Saxe-Altenbourg) par la naissance. Grâce à son mariage avec Guillaume de Nassau (1792-1839), Louise est aussi membre de la maison de Nassau-Weilbourg et duchesse consort de Nassau. Louise est brièvement princesse consort de Nassau-Weilbourg en 1816.

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William, Duke of Nassau

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Princess Pauline of Württemberg

Princess Pauline of Württemberg

Princess Pauline Friederike Marie (25 February 1810, Stuttgart – 7 July 1856, Wiesbaden) was Duchess consort of Nassau from 1829 to 1839 as the second wife of William, Duke of Nassau. She was a member of the House of Württemberg and a princess of Württemberg by birth.

Pauline is an ancestress of the present Belgian, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish royal families, as well as the Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg through her youngest daughter Sophia, Queen of Sweden and Norway.

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