Mary of Looz-Heinsberg

Maria of Loon-Heinsberg
Born	1426
Died	(1502-04-20)20 April 1502
Buried	Mausoleum of Engelbert I of Nassau in Breda
Noble family	House of Loon
Spouse(s)	John IV, Count of Nassau
Father	John II of Loon, Lord of Jülich, Heinsberg and Löwenberg
Mother	Margaret of Solms-Braunfels

Jan IV of Nassau and his wife Maria of Loon-Heinsberg; both were decades dead by 1538-40, when a set of dynastic designs were made in pen with watercolour by Bernard van Orley

Sculpture of Maria von Loon-Heinsberg at the mausoleum of Engelbert I of Nassau, Grote Kerk of Breda.

Maria of Loon-Heinsberg (1426 – 20 April 1502) was the daughter of John II of Loon, Lord of Jülich, Heinsberg and Löwenberg. Her mother was the second wife of John II, Countess Margaret of Solms-Braunfels.

Maria died on 20 April 1502 as the last member of the house of Loon-Heinsberg and is buried with her husband in the mausoleum of Engelbert I of Nassau in the Church of Our Lady at the Market Square in Breda.

Marriage and issue

She married on 7 February 1440 with John IV, Count of Nassau, Lord of Breda. They had the following children:

• Anna (c. 1441 – 1514), married:
  1. in 1467 with Otto V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (c. 1439-1471)
  2. in 1474 with Philip I, Count of Katzenelnbogen
• Johanna (c. 1444 – c. 1468), married in 1467 with Philip I, Count of Waldeck
• Odilia (c. 1445 – 1493)
• Adriana (1449–1477), married in 1468 with Philip I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
• Engelbert II (1451–1504), married in 1468 with Cimburga of Baden
• John V (1455–1516), married in 1482 with Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg (1466–1523)