Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen

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Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen
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Died22 February 1288
Mainz
Noble family House of Katzenelnbogen
Spouse(s) Walram II of Nassau
Father Diether IV of Katzenelnbogen
MotherHildegunde

Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen (German : Adelheid von Katzenelnbogen; died 22 February 1288) [1] was a countess from the House of Katzenelnbogen and, by marriage, countess of Nassau. She is a direct ancestor of the Walramiam branch of the House of Nassau and of the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg.

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The former St. Clara monastery in Mainz Reichklarenkloster - Mainz - Germany 2017.jpg
The former St. Clara monastery in Mainz

Adelheid was the daughter of Count Diether IV of Katzenelnbogen and Hildegunde. [1] She married before 1250 to Count Walram II of Nassau (c. 1220 [1] – 24 January 1276). On 16 December 1255, her spouse divided the county of Nassau with his younger brother Otto I, on which occasion Walram obtained the area south of the river Lahn, containing Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg and Bleidenstadt. [2]

From this union came the following children: [1] [3]

  1. Diether (c. 1250 – Trier, 23 November 1307), was Archbishop of Trier 1300-1307.
  2. Adolf (c. 1255 – Göllheim, 2 July 1298), succeeded his father as count of Nassau, was King of Germany 1292-1298.
  3. Richardis (died 28 July 1311), was a nun in the St. Clara monastery in Mainz and later in Klarenthal Abbey near Wiesbaden.
  4. Matilda (died young).
  5. Imagina (died before 1276), may have married Frederick of Lichtenberg.

Walram died – allegedly in mental derangement – on 24 January 1276. As a widow, Adelheid was a Clarissan nun in Wiesbaden (in the summer) and in Mainz (in the winter). [3] It is believed that Adelheid and her daughter Richardis led a very devout life.

The necrology of the St. Clara monastery in Mainz recorded the death of ‘Alheidis … comitissa de Nassowe’ on ‘Non Kal Mar’ in 1288, and her burial ‘in habitu soror’. So she died on 22 February 1288 and was buried in the St. Clara monastery in Mainz. [1] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Dek (1970).
  2. ↑ Huberty, et al. (1981).
  3. 1 2 3 Vorsterman van Oyen (1882).
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