Anna van Egmond, Countess of
Buren and Leerdam,
daughter of Maximiliaan van Egmond, Count of Buren and Leerdam
and Francoise de Lannoy, Dame de Lannoy, de Santes, de Tronchiennes
baptised March 1533 Grave
Died 24 March 1558 Breda
Buried Breda
Married 8 July 1551 Buren
Willem I "the Silent"
Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau
Born 24 April 1533 Dillenburg
Died 10 July 1584 Delft (murdered)
Buried Nieuwe Kerk, Delft
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As her father's only legitimate child, she was a very wealthy heiress.
At eighteen years of age she married Willem, Prince of Orange, who was
of the same age and, like her at this stage, Roman Catholic. Surviving
letters of the Prince show that they were in love and they did have seven
years of happiness. Her husband was one of The Netherlands' prominent nobles
and a trusted servant of the Emperor. When she died aged twenty-five, the
Emperor's sister, Maria of Hungary, took her two surviving children to
be educated at her court.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
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