Gerlach I, Count of Nassau

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Gerlach I, Count of Nassau
Tekening van het grafmonument van Gerlach I van Nassau en Agnes van Hessen.jpg
Count of Nassau (Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and Weilnau)
Reign1298–1344
Predecessor Adolf I
Successor Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein
John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Regent Rupert V of Nassau  [ nl ] (1298 - 1304)
Walram III of Nassau-Wiesbaden  [ nl ] (1312 - 1316)
Born1288
Died7 January 1361 (aged 73)
Burial
Klarenthal Abbey
(destroyed in 1840)
Spouse Agnes (daughter of Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Bradenburg-Stendal)  [ nl ]
Irmgard of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim  [ nl ]
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 Adolf von nassau montanus.JPG
Gerlach I’s father, Adolph

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

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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  [ nl ], 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).

Ancestry

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Gerlach I, Count of Nassau
Born: before 1288 Died: 7 January 1361
Preceded by Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein
1298–1344
Succeeded by
Count of Nassau-Weilburg
1298–1344
Succeeded by