John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg (November 22, 1535 – October 8, 1606) was a Count of Nassau in Dillenburg. Other names he had were "Jan VI" or "Jan de Oude".

John VI was second son of Count William I of Nassau-Dillenburg and his second wife Juliane of Stolberg-Wernigerode and brother of William I of Orange. He was the principal author of the Union of Utrecht.

Family and children

John VI was married three times. Firstly, he was married on 16 June 1559 with Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg (1537 – 6 July 1579) and had in this marriage the following children:
# Count Willem Lodewijk "Us Heit" (13 March 1560 – 31 May 1620)
# Count John VII of Nassau-Siegen (7 June 1561 – 27 September 1623)
# Count Georg of Nassau-Dillenburg (1 September 1562 – 9 August 1623)
# Elisabeth (24 January 1564 – 5 May 1611), married:
## on 3 October 1583 to Count Philipp IV of Nassau-Saarbrücken
## on 7 May 1603 to Count Wolfgang Ernst I of Isenburg-Büdingen
# Juliana (6 October 1565 – 4 October 1630), married:
## on 24 April 1588 to Wild and Rheingraf Adolf Henry of Dhaun
## on 8 February 1619 to Count John Albrecht I of Solms-Braunfels
# Philipp (1 December 1566 – 3 September 1595)
# Maria (12 November 1568 – 10 May 1625), married on 2 December 1588 to Count John Louis I of Nasau-Wiesbaden-Idstein
# Anna Sibylla (29 September 1569 – 19 December 1576)
# Mathilde (27 December 1570 – 10 May 1625), married on 24 June 1592 to Count Wilhelm V of Mansfeld-Arnstein
# Albert, born and died in 1572
# Count Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Diez (22 December 1573 – 2 June 1632)
# Louis Günther (15 February 1575 – 12 September 1604)

Secondly, he married on 13 September 1580 with Kunigunde Jakobäa of Simmern (1556-1586) and had in this marriage two daughters:
# Amalie (27 July 1582 – 31 October 1635), married on 23 August 1600 to Count Wilhelm I of Solms-Braunsfeld-Greiffenstein
# Kunigunde (12 July 1583 – 4 April 1584)

Thirdly, he married on 14 June 1586 to Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1561-1622) and had in this marriage the following children:
# Georg Ludwig, born and died in 1588
# Prince John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar (6 August 1590 – 10 March 1653)
# Johannette Elisabeth (13 February 1593 – 13 September 1654), married on 16 December 1616 to Count Conrad Gumprecht of Bentheim-Limburg
# Anna (24 November 1594 – 11 February 1660), married on 19 June 1619 to Count Philipp Ernst of Isenburg-Birstein
# Magdalene (13 November 1595 – 31 July 1633), married on 29 May 1624 to Count Georg Albrecht I of Erbach
# Anna Amalie (19 July 1599 – 4 May 1667), married on 25 November 1648 to Count Wilhelm Otto of Isenburg-Birstein
# Juliane, born and died in 1602