Gravin Isabella van nassau - Beverweerd

Lodewijk van Nassau was born the illegitimate son of Stadtholder Maurits van Oranje and Margaret of Mechelen. In 1625, after the death of Maurits, he inherited the manor of Beverweerd, on the Kromme Rijn, and Odijk. After the death of his brother Willem in 1627, the manor of Lek was added. He married Isabella, Countess of Hornes, on April 7, 1630. Lodewijk made a career in the States army, distinguished himself in 1629 at the Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch, became colonel in 1632, commanded the Rosencrants regiment after 1635, saved the guns from the enemy near Hulst in 1640, became general in 1643. major and governor of Bergen op Zoom, and in 1658 governor of 's-Hertogenbosch. In 1641 his uncle Frederik Hendrik, Prince of Orange, sent him to France to explain that the marriage of his son William to Mary Stuart was a private matter and had nothing to do with the politics of the Republic. From 1660 to 1662 Louis was extra-ordinary ambassador to England.

Elisabeth van Horne, gravin MP

Gender: Female

Birth: 1605

Death: 1664 (58-59)

Place of Burial: Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, South Holland, The Netherlands

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Willem Adriaan I van Horne, heer van Kessel and Elisabeth van der Meeren, vrouwe van Westwesel

Wife of Lodewijk 'Bastaard' van Nassau-Beverweerd

Mother of Isabella van Nassau-Beverweert; Willem Adriaan van Nassau-Ouderkerk, heer van Odijk; Emilia van Nassau, Countess of Ossory; Wilhelmina Anna Elizabeth van Nassau; Hendrik van Nassau-Ouwerkerk (van Nassau), heer van Ouwerkerk en Woudenberg; Maurits Lodewijk van Nassau-Lalecq (van Nassau La Lecq) and Mauritia Lindsay (de Nassau), Countess of Balcarres « less

Sister of Johan Belgicus, graaf van Horne and Gravin Isabella van nassau - Beverweerd (van Horne)