Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken [SEP] mother
Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (7 April 1621 – 25 July 1642, Straelen), was the oldest son of Count William Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken and his wife, Landgravine Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach. He succeeded his father as Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1640. However, as he was still a minor at the time, he stood under the regency of his mother.
Crato was killed in battle at Straelen in 1642. He was succeeded by
Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (; 28 March 1663, Saarbrücken – 14 February 1713 in Saarbrücken) was the son of Count Gustav Adolph of Nassau-Saarbrücken and Clara Eleanor, Countess of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein. He was educated at Neuenstein with his uncle, Count Wolfgang Julius of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, and later in Tübingen. His father was at the time a prisoner of war in France.
On his father's death in 1677, he inherited the counties of