Gerlach I, Count of Nassau


Gerlach I of Nassau, Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and Weilnau.
He was a son of Adolf of Nassau, elected King of the Romans, and Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg.

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.
  2. John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg.
  3. Gerlach von Nassau, Archbishop of Mainz.
  4. Adelheid, married 1329 to Ulrich III, Lord of Hanau.
  5. Agnes, a nun at Klarenthal Abbey.
  6. Elisabeth, married before 16 August 1326 to Louis of Hohenlohe.
  7. Marie, married before 1336 to Konrad of Weinsberg.

Second marriage

Second, he married before 4 January 1337, daughter of Kraft II of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim and had the following children:
  1. Kraft of Nassau-Sonnenberg, fell in the Battle of Poitiers.
  2. Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg.