Maria of Loon-Heinsberg

Maria of Loon-Heinsberg
Maria of Loon-Heinsberg
Born	1426
Died	20 April 1502
Buried	Mausoleum of Engelbert I of Nassau in Breda
Noble family	House of Loon
Spouse(s)	John IV, Count of Nassau
Father	John II of Loon
Mother	Margaret of Solms-Braunfels

Maria of Loon-Heinsberg (1426 – 20 April 1502) was the daughter of John II of Loon, Lord of Jülich, Heinsberg and Löwenberg.[2] Her mother was the second wife of John II, Countess Margaret of Solms-Braunfels.[3]

Jan IV of Nassau and his wife Maria of Loon-Heinsberg; both were decades dead by 1538-40, when a set of dynastic designs were made in pen with watercolour by Bernard van Orley

Sculpture of Maria von Loon-Heinsberg at the mausoleum of Engelbert I of Nassau, Grote Kerk of Breda.[1]

Maria died on 20 April 1502 as the last member of the house of Loon-Heinsberg and is buried with her husband in the mausoleum of Engelbert I of Nassau in the Church of Our Lady at the Market Square in Breda.

Marriage and issue

She married on 7 February 1440 with John IV, Count of Nassau, Lord of Breda. They had the following children:

Anna (c. 1441 – 1514), married:
1. in 1467 with Otto V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (c. 1439-1471)
2. in 1474 with Philip I, Count of Katzenelnbogen
Johanna (c. 1444 – c. 1468), married in 1467 with Philip I, Count of Waldeck
Odilia (c. 1445 – 1493)
Adriana (1449–1477), married in 1468 with Philip I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
Engelbert II (1451–1504), married in 1468 with Cimburga of Baden
John V (1455–1516), married in 1482 with Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg (1466–1523)

References

Uwe Korbella in: Heimatkalender des Kreises Heinsberg 2011. Published by the county of Heinsberg, Heinsberg 2011, S. 36
Christoph Jacob Kremer: Geschichte der Herren von Heinsberg des jüngern Geschlechts im Herzogthum Gülch, einer besondern Linie des Grävlich Sponheimischen Hauses in der Pfalz. In: Akademische Beiträge zur Gülch- und Bergischen Geschichte, Erster Band. Mannheim mit Akademischen Schriften, 1769, p. 92 ff.
Severin Corsten, August Lentz in: Heimatkalender des Selfkantkreises Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg 1972, published by the county of Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg, Geilenkirchen 1972, p. 11 ff.

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[1] Uwe Korbella in: Heimatkalender des Kreises Heinsberg 2011. Published by the county of Heinsberg, Heinsberg 2011, S. 36

[2] Christoph Jacob Kremer: Geschichte der Herren von Heinsberg des jüngern Geschlechts im Herzogthum Gülch, einer besondern Linie des Grävlich Sponheimischen Hauses in der Pfalz. In: Akademische Beiträge zur Gülch- und Bergischen Geschichte, Erster Band. Mannheim mit Akademischen Schriften, 1769, p. 92 ff.

[3] Severin Corsten, August Lentz in: Heimatkalender des Selfkantkreises Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg 1972, published by the county of Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg, Geilenkirchen 1972, p. 11 ff.