Henry of Nassau, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, (Dillenburg 15 October 1550 — Mook 14 April 1574) was the youngest brother of William I of Orange-Nassau. Dillenburg is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district which is now part of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in William I Prince of Orange ( April 24 1533 — July 10 1584) also widely known as William the Silent (Willem de Zwijger or simply
He was the twelfth and last child of William the Rich and Juliana of Stolberg-Werningerode, and was raised a Lutheran. William of Nassau (Willem de Rijke ( 10 April 1487 &ndash 6 October 1559) was a count of Nassau-Dillenburg from the House of Juliana Countess of Stolberg-Wernigerode ( February 15 1506 - June 18 1580) was the mother of William the Silent, the leader Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther He studied in Leuven and Strasbourg. Leuven ( French: Louvain, often used in English German: Löwen) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Strasbourg (Strasbourg stʁazbuʁ Alsatian: Strossburi,; Straßburg) is the capital and principal City of the Alsace région He and his brothers William and Louis joined the Huguenot army of Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé and took part in the battle of Montcontour (3 October 1569). Louis of Nassau ( January 10, 1538 &ndash April 14, 1574) was the third son of William Count of Nassau, and Juliana of Stolberg The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth Louis of Bourbon-Condé ( Louis I Prince of Condé) ( May 7, 1530 &ndash March 13, 1569) was a prominent Huguenot Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Henry fell in the battle of Mookerheyde at the age of 23. The Battle of Mookerheyde was a battle of the Eighty Years' War fought on 14 April 1574 near the village Mook and the river Meuse His elder brother Louis was also killed in this battle. Their bodies have never been recovered.
Article in Grote Winkler Prins, Encyclopedie in twintig delen, 7th edition, Elsevier, Amsterdam (1972).