| Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein | |
| Noble Family: | House of Sayn |
| Father: | Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein |
| Mother: | Anna of Solms-Braunfels |
| Spouse: | John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg |
| Birth Date: | 15 February 1561 |
Johanetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein (15 February 1561 – 13 April 1622) was German countess of the house of Sayn-Wittgenstein, who became the third wife of Count John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg.[1]
Johanetta was born in 1561, the first child of Count Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1532–1605) and his first wife, Anna of Solms-Braunfels (1538–1565). Anna was a relative of the later Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602–1675). She was most likely named after her grandmother Johannetta of Isenburg-Neumagen (1500–1563), daughter of Salentin VII, lord of Isenburg and Neumagen (1462–1533).
His father was raised in Wittgenstein Castle, near Bad Laasphe. After his marriage he and his family settled in a Castle in the country near the city of Berleburg. Her mother gave birth to two more children, Juliana in 1562 and George II in 1565, before she died in 1565.
Her father Louis I remarried Elisabeth of Solms-Laubach (1549–1599), daughter of Frederick Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubach. She gave birth to another 19 children, of which some died young.[2] They grew up at the ancestral Wittgenstein Castle on a hilltop overlooking Bad Laasphe to a former hunting lodge near Berleburg.
In 1586 at the 14th of June at Dillenburg Castle at the age of 25 she married Count John VI, the eldest son of William the Rich and Juliana of Stolberg, who was 50 years old by then.
John and Johanetta had the following children: