Gerlach I, Count of Nassau
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| name = Gerlach I, Count of Nassau
| image = Tekening van het grafmonument van Gerlach I van Nassau en Agnes van Hessen.jpg
| succession = 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 = {{ill|Rupert V of Nassau|nl|Rupert V van Nassau}} (1298 - 1304)
{{ill|Walram III of Nassau-Wiesbaden|nl|Walram III van Nassau}} (1312 - 1316)
| regent-type = {{nowrap|Co-regent}}
| spouse = {{ill|Agnes (daughter of Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Bradenburg-Stendal)|nl|Agnes van Hessen (-1332)}}
{{ill|Irmgard of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim|nl|Irmgard van Hohenlohe}}
| birth_date = 1288https://www.google.com
| birth_place =
| death_date = 7 January 1361 (aged 73)
| death_place =
| burial_date =
| burial_place = Klarenthal Abbey
(destroyed in 1840)
| 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
| father = Adolf of Nassau
| mother = Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg
| house = House of Nassau
| religion = Catholic
}}
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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:
- Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1307 – 17 January 1370, Idstein).
- John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1309 – 20 September 1371, Weilburg).
- Gerlach von Nassau (1322 – 12 February 1371, Aschaffenburg), Archbishop of Mainz.
- Adelheid (d. 8 August 1344), married 1329 to Ulrich III, Lord of Hanau.
- Agnes, a nun at Klarenthal Abbey.
- Elisabeth ({{circa|1326|1370}}), married before 16 August 1326 to Louis of Hohenlohe.
- Marie (d. 1366), married before 1336 to Konrad of Weinsberg.
=Second marriage=
Second, he married before 4 January 1337 {{ill|Irmgard of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim|nl|Irmgard van Hohenlohe}}, daughter of Kraft II of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim and had the following children:
- Kraft of Nassau-Sonnenberg (d. 1356), fell in the Battle of Poitiers.
- Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg (d. 4 September 1390).
References
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2. 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.
3. Festschrift der Konrad-Duden-Schule in Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg 1904–1984.
4. Festschrift 875 Jahre Sonnenberg. 1126-2001. Wiesbaden 2001.
5. 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.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629171602/http://www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/nassau/gerlach_1_graf_1361/gerlach_1_graf_von_nassau_+_1361.html www.genealogie-mittelalter.de]
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Category:House of Nassau-Weilburg
Category:Year of birth uncertain
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