Walburga of Egmont explained

Walburga of Egmont
Countess Consort of Nassau-Siegen
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Spouse:William I of Nassau-Siegen
Issue:
  • Elisabeth
  • Magdalene
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Full Name:Walburga Countess of Egmont
Native Name:Walburga Gravin van Egmont
Noble Family:House of Egmond
Father:John III of Egmont
Mother:Magdalene of Werdenberg
Death Date:7 March 1529
Burial Place:St. John's Church, Franciscan monastery, Siegen
Reburied:, Siegen 1836

Countess Walburga[1] of Egmont (– 7 March 1529), Dutch; Flemish: Walburga Gravin van Egmont, was a countess from the House of Egmond and through marriage Countess of Nassau-Siegen.

Biography

Walburga was born [2] [3] [4] as the eldest daughter of Count John III of Egmont and Countess Magdalene of Werdenberg (from the House of Werdenberg).

Walburga met her future husband, William I of Nassau-Siegen (Dillenburg, 10 April 1487[5] [6] [7] [8] – Dillenburg, 6 October 1559[9] [10] [11]), in Arnhem in 1505, where he accompanied Elector Frederick III the Wise of Saxony. The following year, the marriage was arranged at Siegen with a messenger from Walburga's father.[12]

The marriage was consummated at Koblenz on 29 May 1506.[13] The glorious wedding was attended by the archbishops Herman IV of Cologne and John II of Trier and many other guests from the high nobility.[14] Henry, the groom's brother, had come over from the Netherlands.

Shortly before, on 16 February 1506, the Beilager of William's sisters Elisabeth and Mary, who married the counts and Jobst I of Holstein-Schauenburg-Pinneberg respectively, was celebrated in Dillenburg with the greatest of festivities. The purchase of gold fabric for 747 guilders and silk fabric for 396 guilders at the trade fair in Mainz for these celebrations, as well as the unusually high total expenditure of 13,505 guilders in the accounts of 1505/1506, show that these weddings must have been splendid events. Soon after the wedding, William set up his own court at Dillenburg Castle.

In 1516, following the death of his father Count John V of Nassau-Siegen, William succeeded him as Count of Nassau-Siegen and of half Diez.[15] Since then William and Walburga had their Residenz in Siegen.[16]

Walburga died on 7 March 1529[17] and was buried next to her eldest daughter in the crypt of St. John's Church in the Franciscan monastery in Siegen, which her father-in-law had founded. In 1836, they were reburied in in Siegen.[18]

William's brother Henry suggested the widower to look for a new life companion in the highest princely houses and suggested a princess of Lorraine, "die ein gut heiratgut mitbrächte" ("who brought in a rich marital estate"). Instead William remarried in Siegen on 20 September 1531[19] [20] to Countess Juliane of Stolberg-Wernigerode (Stolberg, 15 February 1506 – Dillenburg, 18 June 1580).

Issue

From the marriage of Walburga and William, the following children were born:[21]

  1. Elisabeth (Siegen, October 1515 – Siegen (?), January 1523).
  2. Magdalene (Siegen, 6 October 1522 – 18 August 1567), married on 16 July 1538 to Count (1514 – 4 December 1578).

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Notes and References

  1. Given name in accordance with Lück (1981), p. 41 and Dek (1970), p. 72 and Book: Van Stipriaan, René . 2021 . De Zwijger. Het leven van Willem van Oranje . nl . 7th . Amsterdam & Antwerpen . Querido Facto . 20 . 978-90-214-0275-8 . The given name Walburgis in Van Ditzhuyzen (2004), p. 249 and Schutte (1979), p. 43, Walpurgis in Becker (1983), p. 55, Walburgia in Dek (1968), p. 228, and Walburg in Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 98.
  2. Schutte (1979), p. 43.
  3. Dek (1970), p. 72.
  4. Dek (1968), p. 228.
  5. Van Ditzhuyzen (2004), p. 249.
  6. Menk (1994), p. 120.
  7. Kolb (1898), p. 129.
  8. Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 97.
  9. Becker (1983), p. 57.
  10. Lück (1981), p. 48.
  11. Kolb (1898), p. 131.
  12. Lück (1981), p. 41.
  13. Becker (1983), p. 55 states the wedding date Sonntag Cantate (10.5.) 1506. Sonntag Cantate is the fourth Sunday after Easter. In 1506, Easter fell on 19 April and 10 May was only the third Sunday after Easter. Dek (1968), p. 228 and Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 98 state the wedding date 29 October 1506.
  14. Becker (1983), p. 55.
  15. Huberty, et al. (1981), p. 219.
  16. Assman & Menk (1996).
  17. Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 98.
  18. Lück (1981), p. 35.
  19. Van Ditzhuyzen (2004), p. 162.
  20. Lück (1981), p. 43.
  21. One can find the claim that Walburga and William had five children in Book: Schipperus, P.J. . 2018 . Philips Willem. De verloren zoon van Willem van Oranje . nl . . Uitgeverij Omniboek . 21 . 978-94-0191-070-5 . But it is confirmed that there were only two daughters in Book: Van Stipriaan, René . 2021 . De Zwijger. Het leven van Willem van Oranje . nl . 7th . Amsterdam & Antwerpen . Querido Facto . 20 . 978-90-214-0275-8 .

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