Countess Elisabeth of Nassau

[2] After her father was murdered in 1584, there was a shortage of money for Elisabeth, her siblings and her stepmother Louise de Coligny, and they lived on state support in the Hague.

One of them, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, ruler of the Duchy of Bouillon and the Principality of Sedan, sent her a proposal of marriage that she accepted.

Henri tried to keep his Duchy Sedan Protestant, but had to deal with hostility emanating from his catholic French neighbors.

A fervent Calvinist, she made Sedan a center of French huguenots and kept a strict and Spartan court.

She kept in close contact with her stepmother and five sisters, two of whom also acted as regents at some point, and they referred to themselves as "states women" in their correspondence.