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Countess Emilia Antwerpiana of Nassau
Countess Emilia Antwerpiana of Nassau (Antwerp, 9 December 1581 - Landsberg, 28 September 1657) was the sixth and youngest daughter of William the Silent and his third wife, Charlotte of Bourbon.
Biography.
Emilia Antwerpiana was her father's last surviving daughter. On 4 July 1616, Countess Emilia Antwerpiana married Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg (1585–1645). The couple had three children:
- Frederick (1617-1617) Died one day after birth
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Henrietta d'Auverquerque, Countess of Grantham
Henrietta d'Auverquerque, Countess of Grantham (died 11 October 1724), formerly Lady Henrietta Butler, was an English noblewoman and the wife of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham.
Henrietta was the youngest daughter of Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, and a sister of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, a well-known Jacobite nobleman. Her mother, Emilia, was a Dutch noblewoman; Henrietta was thus a first cousin of her husband, whose father was