Name Gerlach Count Died January 7, 1361 | ||
Children John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg Parents Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg, Adolf of Germany Grandchildren Philipp I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg Grandparents Walram II, Count of Nassau | ||
Great-grandparents Henry II, Count of Nassau | ||
Gerlach I of Nassau (between 1275 and 1283 – 7 January 1361), Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and Weilnau.
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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, 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 of Nassau-Weilburg (1309 – 20 September 1371, Weilburg).
- Gerlach (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 (ca. 1326–ca. 1370), married before 16 August 1326 to Louis of Hohenlohe.
- 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:
- 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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