Gerlach I, Count of Nassau

Gerlach I of Nassau (between 1275 and 1283 – 7 January 1361), Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and Weilnau.

Life

He was a son of Emperor Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg and Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg. In 1344 he abdicated.

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 of Nassau-Weilburg (1309 – 20 September 1371, Weilburg).
3. Gerlach (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 (ca. 1326–ca. 1370), married before 16 August 1326 to Louis of Hohenlohe.
7. Marie (d. 1366), married before 1336 to Konrad of Weinsberg.

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).

Ancestors

Ancestors of Gerlach I, Count of Nassau

16. Walram I of Nassau 8. Henry II of Nassau 17. Kunigunde of Ziegenhain 4. Walram II of Nassau 18. Otto I, Count of Guelders 9. Matilda of Guelders 19. Richardis of Bavaria 2. Adolf of Germany 20. Diether III, Lord of Katzenelnbogen 10. Diether IV, Count of Katzenelnbogen 5. Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen 11. Hildegunde of Eberstein 1. Gerlach I of Nassau-Wiesbaden 12. Henry I of Isenburg-Grenzau 6. Gerlach IV of Isenburg-Limburg 13. Irmingard of Bündingen 3. Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg 7. Imagina of Blieskastel

External links

• www.genealogie-mittelalter.de