Background
She was a third child but second daughter of Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen and his wife Maria Magdalene, born Countess of Limburg-Stirum.
She was a third child but second daughter of Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen and his wife Maria Magdalene, born Countess of Limburg-Stirum.
In The Hague on 25 October 1675, Sophie Amalie married Friedrich Casimir Kettler, Hereditary Prince of Courland. They had five children:
Frederick Kettler (3 April 1682 – 11 February 1683), Hereditary Prince of Courland. Marie Dorothea Kettler (2 August 1684 – 17 January 1743), married to Albert Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt.
Eleonore Charlotte Kettler (11 June 1686 – 28 July 1748), married to Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Bevern.
Amalie Louise Kettler (27 July 1687 – 18 January 1750), married to Frederick William I Adolf, Prince of Nassau-Siegen. Christina Sophia Kettler (15 November 1688 – 22 April 1694).
In 1682, after the death of her father-in-law, Sophie Amalie became in Duchess consort of Courland. She died six years later.