Career
He was only a few weeks old when his father died and he inherited Nassau-Wiesbaden and Nassau-Idstein. However, he died when he was nine years old. With his death, the Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein line died out.
Wiesbaden and Idstein fell back to Nassau-Weilburg, thereby reuniting all the territories of the Nassau-Walram line in one hand.