John VI was married three times and had a total of 24 children: Firstly, he married on 16 June 1559 with
Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg (ca. March 1537 – 6 July 1579), who bore him 13 children: • Count
Willem Lodewijk "Us Heit" (13 March 1560 – 31 May 1620) • Count
John VII (7 June 1561 – 27 September 1623) • Count
George (1 September 1562 – 9 August 1623) • Elisabeth (24 January 1564 – 5 May 1611), married: • on 3 October 1583 to Count
Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg • on 7 May 1603 to
Count Wolfgang Ernst I of Isenburg-Büdingen • Juliana (6 October 1565 – 4 October 1630), married: • on 24 April 1588 to Wild- and Rhinegrave Adolf Henry of Dhaun • on 8 February 1619 to Count
John Albrecht I of Solms-Braunfels •
Philip (1 December 1566 – 3 September 1595) •
Maria (12 November 1568 – 10 May 1625), married on 2 December 1588 to Count
John Louis I of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein • Anna Sibylla (29 September 1569 – 19 December 1576) • Mathilde (27 December 1570 – 10 May 1625), married on 24 June 1592 to Count Wilhelm V of Mansfeld-Arnstein • Albert (born and died in 1572) • Count
Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz (22 December 1573 – 2 June 1632). It is through Ernest Casimir that the royal family of the Netherlands are descended. •
Louis Gunther (15 February 1575 – 12 September 1604) • Stillborn son (6 July 1579) . Secondly, he married on 13 September 1580 with Kunigunde Jakobäa of Simmern (9 October 1556 – 26 January 1586), daughter of
Frederick III, Elector Palatine, who bore him 4 children: • Stillborn son (19 July 1581) •
Maria Amalia (27 July 1582 – 31 October 1635), married on 23 August 1600 to Count Wilhelm I of Solms-Braunsfeld-Greiffenstein • Kunigunde (12 July 1583 – 4 April 1584) • Stillborn son (23 February 1585) Thirdly, he married on 14 June 1586 to
Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein (15 February 1561 – 13 April 1622), who bore him 7 children: • George Louis (12 April 1588 – 16 April 1588) • Prince
John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar (6 August 1590 – 10 March 1653) • Johannette Elisabeth (13 February 1593 – 13 September 1654), married on 16 December 1616 to Count Conrad Gumprecht of Bentheim-Limburg, son of
Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg • Anna (24 November 1594 – 11 February 1660), married on 19 June 1619 to Count Philipp Ernst of Isenburg-Birstein • Magdalene (13 November 1595 – 31 July 1633), married on 29 May 1624 to
Count Georg Albrecht I of Erbach • Anna Amalie (19 July 1599 – 4 May 1667), married on 25 November 1648 to Count Wilhelm Otto of Isenburg-Birstein • Juliane (9 June 1602 – 26 August 1602). He died in his native city of
Dillenburg, aged 69. ==Ancestry==