Wirich VI, Count of Daun-Falkenstein

Wirich VI, Count of Daun-Falkenstein (c. 1542 – 11 October 1598) was a German nobleman, diplomat, statesman, and politician.

Wirich was born c. 1542 as the son of Count Philip II of Daun-Falkenstein (c. 1514 – 1554) and his wife Maria Caspara of Holtey (1520–1558).

Although his uncle Sebastian disputed the inheritance, Wirich's guardian William IV of Bernsau (d. 1576), who was Lord of Hardenberg, Marshal of Berg and Steward of Solingen, was invested with Bürgel on 29 September 1554 by Adolph, archbishop of Cologne.

In view of the tense situation of the Lower Rhine, Count Wirich reinforced the defensive barriers and dykes of Broich in 1572 with seventy guns from Essen.

While he was in Königsberg, Duchess Marie Eleonore commissioned him to send her someone who could act as ... friendly and comforting council .... After his return to Berg, Wirich reported verbally to the Duke of Berg, who arranged for councillor Dietrich von Eickel to be sent to Marie Eleonore in Königsberg.

During the Diet of 1577 in Grevenbroich, various parties from all over the United Duchies complained about the adverse effects of the mandatory Lutheran faith.

On 10 December 1577 in Bonn, Wirich represented the Duke when Salentin IX of Isenburg-Grenzau, who had abdicated his post as Prince-Bishop of Paderborn, married Countess Antonia Wilhelmina of Arenberg.

Elisabeth had been abbess of Essen Abbey and had resigned from that post on 14 May 1578, in the presence of her brother, Bishop John IV of Strasbourg.

In the fall on 1579, Duke William asked Wirich to accompany yet another daughter, Magdalene to her wedding in Bergzabern with Count Palatine John I of Zweibrücken.

Wirich wrote a letter to the Duke, dated 10 September, to apologize and mentioned that his wife was in an advanced stage of pregnancy and that he really did not want to leave her.

From 1578 onwards, the Duchy of Berg was increasingly threatened by Dutch and Spanish troops fighting the Eighty Years' War.

Wirich, who emphatically stood on the Protestant side, actively participated in the Diets in Düsseldorf in November 1579 and in Urdenbach in April 1580.

In 1585, Wirich mediated several times in the peace talks between his cousin, Count Adolph of Neuenahr and the new Archbishop of Cologne, Ernest of Bavaria.

Because of the risk the Spanish soldiers under Admiral Francisco de Mendoza quartered in Orsoy posed to his family, Wirich sent his relatives to Hardenberg on 4 October 1598.