Gerlach I, Count of Nassau

Gerlach I of Nassau (before 1288–7 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 of Hesse, daughter of Henry of Hesse, granddaughter of Landgrave Heinrich I "das Kind" of Hesse and had the following children:

1. Adolf I 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 Count Ulrich III of Hanau.
5. Agnes, a nun at Klarenthal Abbey.
6. Elisabeth (ca. 1326–ca. 1370), married before 16 August 1326 to Ludwig of Hohenlohe.
7. Marie (d. 1366), married before 1336 to Konrad von 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. after 1361).
2. Ruprecht of Nassau-Sonnenberg (d. 4 September 1390).

Ancestors

External links

• www.genealogie-mittelalter.de