Issue
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| By Anna of Egmond (married 6 July 1551; b. est 1534, d. 24 March 1558) | |||
| Countess Maria of Nassau. | 22 November 1553 | ca. 23 July 1555 | Died in infancy. |
| Philip William, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau |
19 December 1554 | 20 February 1618 | married Eleonora of Bourbon-Condé. |
| Countess Maria of Nassau | 7 February 1556 | 10 October 1616 | married Count Philip of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein |
| By Anna of Saxony (married 25 August 1561 annulled 22 March 1571; b. 23 December 1544, d. 18 December 1577) | |||
| Countess Anna of Nassau | 31 October 1562 | 23 November 1562 | Died in infancy |
| Countess Anna of Nassau | 5 November 1563 | 13 June 1588 | married Count Wilhelm Ludwig von Nassau-Dillenburg |
| Count Maurice August Phillip of Nassau | 18 December 1564 | 8 December 1566 | Count, Died in infancy. |
| Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau |
14 November 1567 | 23 April 1625 | never married |
| Countess Emilia of Nassau | 10 April 1569 | 16 March 1629 | married Manuel de Portugal (son of pretender to the Portuguese throne António, Prior of Crato), 10 children |
| By Charlotte of Bourbon (married 24 June 1575; b. about 1546, d. 5 May 1582) | |||
| Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau | 31 March 1576 | 15 March 1644 | married Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, 8 children. Her son, Frederick V, Elector Palatine would be the grandfather of George I of Great Britain. |
| Countess Elisabeth of Nassau | 1577 | 1642 | married to Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, and had issue, including Frédéric Maurice, duc de Bouillon and Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne |
| Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau | 1578 | 1648 | Countess, married to Count Philip Louis II of Hanau-Münzenberg |
| Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau | 1579 | 1640 | A nun. After her mother's death in 1582 her French grandfather asked for Charlotte Flandrina to stay with him. She converted to Roman Catholicism and entered a convent in 1593. |
| Countess Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau | 1580 | 1631 | married Claude, Duc de Thouars, and had issue, including Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby. |
| Countess Emilia Antwerpiana of Nassau | 1581 | 1657 | married Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg |
| By Louise de Coligny (married 24 April 1583; b. 23 September 1555, d. 13 November 1620) | |||
| Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau |
b. 29 January 1584 | d. 14 March 1647 | married to Countess Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, father of William II and grandfather of William III, King of England, Scotland, Ireland and Stadtholder of the Netherlands |
Between his first and second marriage, William had an extramarital affair with one Eva Elincx. They had a son, Justinus van Nassau (1559–1631), whom William acknowledged.
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