Anna Johanna of Nassau-Siegen

Countess Anne Joanne of Nassau-Siegen (2 March 1594Jul. – December 1636), , official titles: Gräfin zu Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden und Diez, Frau zu Beilstein, was a countess from the House of Nassau-Siegen, a cadet branch of the Ottonian Line of the House of Nassau, and through marriage Lady of Brederode, Vianen, Ameide and Kloetinge. Biography Anne Joanne was born at Dillenburg Castle on 2 March 1594Jul. as the ninth child and fourth daughter of Count John VII 'the Middle' of Nassau-Siegen and his first wife, Countess Magdalene of Waldeck-Wildungen. Anne Joanne was baptised in Siegen on Sunday 17 MarchJul.. Since 29 July 1612 she stayed in the noble abbeys of and Herford. Anne Joanne married at near Mülheim an der Ruhr on 19 June 1619 to (Heusden (?), 12 June 1599 – near Maastricht, 3 September 1655), Lord of Brederode, Vianen, Ameide and Kloetinge. The castle where the marriage took place was the Residenz of Count , the husband of Anne Joanne's sister Anne Mary. Johan Wolfert brought all his goods in the marriage, while Anne Joanne brought 12,000 guilders, of which the interest was 600 guilders annually, and her own goods and jewellery. As a dower she was granted Haaften Manor and 4000 guilders annually. According to an eyewitness, the marriage contract and the testaments were signed on 19 June and "habe dauraufhin die Kopulation stattgefunden und die Hochzeit bis auf Mittwoch, den 23. Juni, gewährt" ("thereupon the copulation took place and the wedding was celebrated until Wednesday, 23 June"). After the festivities the young couple travelled by coach to Wesel, whereupon Prince Maurice of Orange's yacht took them to Vianen. Two of Anne Joanne's brothers were in the party: William and fourteen-year-old John Maurice. A painting by Cornelis Vroom in the town hall of Vianen shows the arrival of the couple on the River Lek. On 16 March 1620 their first child was born, a daughter Sofia Theodora. The grandfather, Count John 'the Middle', congratulated the parents on the birth of their daughter in his letter from Rheinfels of 4 April 1620, but he himself would have preferred a son.