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Gerlach II of Isenburg-Arnfels was the Count of Isenburg-Arnfels from 1333 until 1379. After his death, the line of counts of Arnfels was extinct, so the lands were inherited by Isenburg-Wied.
Preceded by: | Gerlach II | Succeeded by: |
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| Theodoric | Count of Isenburg-Arnfels 1333–1379 | extinct to Isenburg-Wied |
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Gerlach II von Isenburg-Arenfels (German: Gerlach II von Isenburg-Arenfels; born around 1319; died August 14, 1371) was Count and Lord of Isenburg-Arenfels and one-third of Neuenar.
He was the son of Count Dietrich I of Isenburg-Grenzau and Burg Hersbach († 1334) and his wife Hedwig of Neuenar († after 1331), daughter of Count Wilhelm I of Neuenar († after 1322) and Beatrice of Greifenstein (or Hedwig of Isenburg († 1331), daughter of Salentin II of Isenburg and Agnes of Runkel). [1]
He died in 1371 and was buried in Cologne.
Family
Gerlach II married Elisabeth (Lisa) von Braunshofen († November 15, 1339), daughter of Johann II von Braunshofen-Beilstein († 1347) and Elisabeth von Döllendorf (1339). They had the following children:[2][3]
daughter († after 1329), married to Hermann III von Helfenstein († February 27, 1354/November 15, 1357)
Margaret († August 16, 1386), abbess of St. Ursula in Cologne (1368–1380)
Catherine († after 1353), canoness of St. Ursula in Cologne (1341–1353)
Dietrich II (III) von Isenburg (* c. 1343; † after 1343)
Johann II (III) von Isenburg (* ca. 1343; † after 1348)
Gerlach II married Countess Demuth von Neuenar († after 1364), daughter of Johann I von Neuenar-Saffenberg († after 1334) and his first wife Boneta von Juden († after 1291). They had two daughters:
Adelheid von Isenburg († after 1401), married before May 6, 1371, to Salentin V von Isenburg († 1420)
Lisa von Ysenburg-Arenfels († after November 30, 1403), married on November 11, 1362, to Count Wilhelm von Ysenburg-Wid († 1383)
Literature
Gustav Simon: Die Geschichte des reichsgräflichen Hauses Ysenburg und Büdingen. Vol. 2: Die Ysenburg und Büdingen’sche Hausgeschichte. Frankfurt 1865, p. 183
Klaus-Peter Decker: Grafschaft Isenburg-Büdingen. In: Knights, Counts, and Princes – Secular Rulers in the Hessian Region ca. 900 – 1806. Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 (= Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63), pp. 232–272.
Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prince of Isenburg, Vol. XVII, Table 59. Vol. VII, Table 140.
Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. XVII, Table 120. Vol. XXIX, Table 63. Vol. XVII, Table 59.