When the wedding was paid for, there was not a thaler remaining of the whole sum." Nothing, then, could be more puerile than to accuse the Prince of mercenary motives in seeking this alliance; an accusation, however, which did not fail to be brought.
There were difficulties on both sides to be arranged before this marriage could take place.

The bride was a Lutheran, the Prince was a Catholic.
With regard to the religion of Orange not the slightest doubt existed, nor was any deception attempted.

Granvelle himself gave the most entire attestation of the Prince's orthodoxy.

"This proposed marriage gives me great pain," he wrote to Philip, "but I have never had reason to suspect his principles." In another letter he observed that he wished the marriage could be broken off; but that he hoped so much from the virtue of the Prince that nothing could suffice to separate him from the true religion.

On the other side there was as little doubt as to his creed.
Old Landgrave Philip of Hesse, grandfather of the young lady, was bitterly opposed to the match.