Gerlach I of Nassau-Wiesbaden
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Gerlach I of Nassau Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...

, Idstein
Idstein
Idstein is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Because of its well preserved historical Altstadt it is part of the Deutsche Fachwerkstraße , connecting towns with fine timber-frame buildings and...

, Weilburg
Weilburg
Weilburg is, with just under 14,000 inhabitants, the third biggest town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany, after Limburg an der Lahn and Bad Camberg.- Location :...

, and Weilnau.

Life

He was a son of Emperor
Emperor
An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife or a woman who rules in her own right...

 Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg
Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg
Adolf was the King of Germany from 1292 until 1298. Though his title in his lifetime was Rex Romanorum , he is usually known as Adolf of Nassau...

 and Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg
Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg
Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg was the Queen consort of Adolf of Nassau, King of Germany.-Life:Imagina was born in about 1255 to Gerlach I of Limburg and Imagina of Blieskastel. Her father, from the House of Limburg held power over Limburg an der Lahn...

. In 1344 he abdicated.

Family and children

He was married two times. First, 1307 with Agnes of Hesse
Agnes of Hesse
Agnes of Hesse was a princess of Hesse by birth and by marriage Electress of Saxony.- Life :...

, 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
    John I of Nassau-Weilburg
    John I of Nassau-Weilburg was Count of Nassau-Weilburg from 1355 to 1371.John I was the second son of Count Gerlach I of Nassau-Wiesbaden and Agnes of Hesse, granddaughter of Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse. On Gerlach I abdication in 1346, John and his brothers divided the family lands...

     (1309–20 September 1371, Weilburg).
  3. Gerlach (1322–12 February 1371, Aschaffenburg
    Aschaffenburg
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    ), Archbishop of Mainz.
  4. Adelheid (d. 8 August 1344), married 1329 to Count Ulrich III of Hanau.
  5. Agnes, a nun at Klarenthal Abbey
    Klarenthal Abbey
    Klarenthal Abbey is a former convent of the Order of Poor Ladies in the borough of Klarenthal in Wiesbaden, Germany...

    .
  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


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