Charles Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken [SEP] place of death
Charles Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
Charles Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (6 January 1665, Saarbrücken – 6 December 1723 in Idstein) was the son of Count Gustav Adolf of Nassau-Saarbrücken and Countess Clara Eleanor of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein.
He was brought up by Wolfgang Julius of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein the brother of his mother, and continued his studies in Tübingen and Paris. In the Great Turkish War, he served as an officer in the army of Emperor Leopold I.
When his brother Louis
had no male heir, his territories fell to his cousin Charles of Nassau-Usingen after his death in 1728.
Family.
Frederick Louis married on 28 July 1680 with Christiane (1659–95), the daughter of Frederick of Ahlefeldt and Margaret Dorothea of Rantzau. They had eight daughters:
- Dorothea Frederica (1681–91)
- Charlotte Mary (1684–90)
- Christiane Charlotte (1685–1761), married first Charles Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken; secondly Frederick III, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
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