Gerlach I, Count of Nassau

Gerlach I of Nassau (between 1275 and 1283 – 7 January 1361),^{[citation needed]} Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and .

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 .
7. Marie (d. 1366), married before 1336 to Konrad of Weinsberg.

Second, he married before 4 January 1337  [nl], daughter of and had the following children:

1. (d. 1356), fell in the Battle of Poitiers.
2. Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg (d. 4 September 1390).

Ancestors[]

External links[]

• www.genealogie-mittelalter.de

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