Albertine Agnes was born in
The Hague and was the sixth of nine children born to her parents. Some of her siblings died in childhood. Albertine and four other siblings lived to adulthood. Her surviving siblings were:
William II, Prince of Orange,
Luise Henriette of Nassau,
Henriette Catherine of Nassau and
Mary of Nassau. In 1652 she married her second-cousin,
William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz.
Regency After the death of her husband in 1664, she became regent for her son in
Friesland,
Groningen and
Drenthe. In 1665, both England and the
bishopric of Münster declared war on
the Netherlands. Because most of the money for defence had been used for the fleet, the army had been neglected. When
Groningen was under siege, Albertine Agnes hastened to the city to give moral support. Pressure by King
Louis XIV of France, then an ally, forced the forces of her enemies retreated, but six years later the Netherlands were attacked from the south, by the French under Louis XIV and from the north by the bishop of Münster and
archbishop of Cologne. She organised defence and kept morale high. In 1676 Albertine Agnes bought a country seat in
Oranjewoud and called it
Oranjewoud Palace. It was here that she died in 1696. She also had
Schloss Oranienstein built from 1672 as her new residence at Diez. ==Issue==