Gerlach I, Count of Nassau

Gerlach I, Count of Nassau
Count of Nassau (Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and Weilnau)
Reign	1298–1344
Predecessor	Adolf I
Successor	Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Regent	Rupert V of Nassau (1298 - 1304) Walram III of Nassau-Wiesbaden (1312 - 1316)
Born	1288
Died	7 January 1361 (aged 73)
Burial	Klarenthal Abbey (destroyed in 1840)
Spouse	Agnes (daughter of Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Bradenburg-Stendal) Irmgard of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim
Issue	Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg Gerlach von Nassau Adelheid Agnes Elisabeth Marie Kraft of Nassau-Sonnenberg Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg
House	House of Nassau
Father	Adolf of Nassau
Mother	Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg
Religion	Catholic

Gerlach I’s father, Adolph

Gerlach I of Nassau (1288 – 7 January 1361), Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and Weilnau.

He was a son of Adolf of Nassau, elected King of the Romans, and Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg.

Family and children

He was married two times. First, 1307 with Agnes, a daughter of Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg-Stendal and her first husband Henry the Younger of Hesse, and hence a granddaughter of Landgrave Henry I "the Child" of Hesse and had the following children:

1. Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1307 – 17 January 1370, Idstein).
2. John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1309 – 20 September 1371, Weilburg).
3. Gerlach von Nassau (1322 – 12 February 1371, Aschaffenburg), Archbishop of Mainz.
4. Adelheid (d. 8 August 1344), married 1329 to Ulrich III, Lord of Hanau.
5. Agnes, a nun at Klarenthal Abbey.
6. Elisabeth (c. 1326 – c. 1370), married before 16 August 1326 to Louis of Hohenlohe.
7. Marie (d. 1366), married before 1336 to Konrad of Weinsberg.

Second marriage

Second, he married before 4 January 1337 Irmgard of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, daughter of Kraft II of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim and had the following children:

1. Kraft of Nassau-Sonnenberg (d. 1356), fell in the Battle of Poitiers.
2. Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg (d. 4 September 1390).

Coat of Arms, Dynasty, and relations

Gerlach I was a member of the House of Nassau, because his father Adolph, Count of Nassau, the elected King of the Romans was a member of the House too. Gerlach I is a cousin of Henry I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, thus a cousin of the King of the Netherlands. The coat of arms is the picture.

Literature

• Pierre Even: Dynastie Luxemburg-Nassau. Von den Grafen zu Nassau zu den Großherzögen von Luxemburg. Eine neunhundertjährige Herrschergeschichte in einhundert Biographien . Luxemburg 2000, S. 20–22.
• Festschrift der Konrad-Duden-Schule in Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg 1904–1984.
• Festschrift 875 Jahre Sonnenberg. 1126-2001. Wiesbaden 2001.
• Gerhard Köbler: Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder. Die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. 7., vollständig überarbeitete Auflage. C.H. Beck, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Gerlach I, Count of Nassau
8. Henry II, Count of Nassau 4. Walram II 9. Matilda of Guelders 2. Adolf 10. Diether IV of Katzenelnbogen 5. Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen 11. Hildegunde of Erbestein 1. Gerlach I 12. Henry I of Isenburg-Grenzau 6. Gerlach IV of Isenburg-Limburg 13. Irmingard of Büdlingen 3. Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg 14. Henry of Blieskastel 7. Imagina of Blieskastel 15. Agnes of Sayn

References

1. Gerlach I, Count of Nassau
2. Gerlach I van Nassau

External links

• www.genealogie-mittelalter.de