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Wilhelm von Luxemburg IV

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Wilhelm von Luxemburg IV

Birth
Wiesbaden, Stadtkreis Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany
Death
25 Feb 1912 (aged 59)
Colmar, Canton de Mersch, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Burial
Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg, Hessen, Germany Add to Map
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Wilhelm (William) IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau, was the eldest child of Adolf I., Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He became Grand Duke of Luxembourg and titular Duke of Nassau on the death of his father on 17 November 1905.
William IV was a Protestant, the religion of the House of Nassau. He married Marie Anne of Portugal, believing that a Roman Catholic country should have a Roman Catholic monarch. Thus since William IV all other Grand Dukes have been Catholic.
At the death of his uncle, Prince Nikolaus-Wilhelm in 1905, the only other legitimate male in the House of Nassau-Weilburg was Williams's cousin, Georg Nikolaus, Count of Merenberg, the product of a morganatic marriage. So in 1907, William IV declared the Counts of Merenberg non-dynastic, naming his own eldest daughter Marie-AdΓ©laΓ―de (1894–1924) as heir to the grand ducal throne. She became Luxembourg's first reigning female monarch upon her father's death in 1912, and upon her own abdication in 1919, was succeeded by her younger sister Charlotte (1896–1985). Charlotte's descendants have reigned until the present day.
Wilhelm (William) IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau, was the eldest child of Adolf I., Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He became Grand Duke of Luxembourg and titular Duke of Nassau on the death of his father on 17 November 1905.
William IV was a Protestant, the religion of the House of Nassau. He married Marie Anne of Portugal, believing that a Roman Catholic country should have a Roman Catholic monarch. Thus since William IV all other Grand Dukes have been Catholic.
At the death of his uncle, Prince Nikolaus-Wilhelm in 1905, the only other legitimate male in the House of Nassau-Weilburg was Williams's cousin, Georg Nikolaus, Count of Merenberg, the product of a morganatic marriage. So in 1907, William IV declared the Counts of Merenberg non-dynastic, naming his own eldest daughter Marie-AdΓ©laΓ―de (1894–1924) as heir to the grand ducal throne. She became Luxembourg's first reigning female monarch upon her father's death in 1912, and upon her own abdication in 1919, was succeeded by her younger sister Charlotte (1896–1985). Charlotte's descendants have reigned until the present day.

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