Gerlach I of Nassau-Wiesbaden
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Gerlach I of Nassau (before 1288–7 January 1361), Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and Weilnau.
[edit] Life
He was a son of Emperor Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg and Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg. In 1344 he abdicated.
[edit] 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:
- Adolf I 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 Count Ulrich III of Hanau.
- Agnes, a nun at Klarenthal.
- Elisabeth (ca. 1326–ca. 1370), married before 16 August 1326 to Ludwig of Hohenlohe.
- 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:
- Kraft of Nassau-Sonnenberg (d. after 1361).
- Ruprecht of Nassau-Sonnenberg (d. 4 September 1390).
| Preceded by Adolf |
Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein 1298-1344 |
Succeeded by Adolf I |
| Count of Nassau-Weilburg 1298-1344 |
Succeeded by John I |
