John I of Nassau-Weilburg (1309–1371) was
Count of Nassau-Weilburg
The House of Nassau-Weilburg, a branch of the House of Nassau, ruled a division of the County of Nassau, which was a state in what is now Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1344 to 1806.
On 17 July 1806, upon the dissolution of t ...
from 1355 to 1371.
John I was the second son of Count
Gerlach I of Nassau-Wiesbaden
Gerlach I of Nassau (1271 – 7 January 1361), 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 t ...
and Agnes of
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
, granddaughter of
Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse
Henry I of Hesse "the Child" (German: ''Heinrich das Kind'') (24 June 1244 – 21 December 1308) was the first Landgrave of Hesse. He was the son of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Sophie of Thuringia.
Life
In 1247, as Heinrich Raspe, Landg ...
. On Gerlach I abdication in 1346, John and his brothers divided the family lands. John acquired
Weilburg
Weilburg is, with just under 13,000 inhabitants, the third biggest town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany, after Limburg an der Lahn and Bad Camberg.
Geography
Location
The community lies in the Lahn valley between the Westerwa ...
on the
Lahn
The Lahn is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).
It has its source in t ...
.
John was elevated by Emperor
Charles IV in 1366 to
Imperial Count
Imperial Count (german: Reichsgraf) was a title in the Holy Roman Empire. In the medieval era, it was used exclusively to designate the holder of an imperial county, that is, a fief held directly ( immediately) from the emperor, rather than from ...
. He died on September 20, 1371.
Family and children
John I was married twice. His first marriage in 1333 was to Gertrude of
Merenberg
Merenberg is a municipality in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Merenberg lies on the southern edge of the Westerwald between the district seat of Limburg and Weilburg.
Neighbouring communities
Merenberg borders in ...
(d. 1350), daughter and heiress of Hartrad, the last Lord of Merenberg and
Gleiberg. Gertrude died on October 6, 1350 and was buried in Weilburg. The couple had one child, a daughter. She was engaged in 1340 with Reinhard II of Westerburg, but died shortly thereafter.
John I's second marriage in 1353 was to Johanna of
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
, Dame de
Commercy
Commercy () is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The 18th-century Lorraine historian Nicolas Luton Durival (1713–1795) was born in Commercy.
History
Commercy dates back to the 9th century, and at that time ...
and heiress of Count
John II John II may refer to:
People
* John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1455–1499)
* John II Casimir Vasa of Poland (1609–1672)
* John II Comyn, Lord of Badenoch (died 1302)
* John II Doukas of Thessaly (1303–1318)
* John II Komnenos (1087–1 ...
of Saarbrücken. This union produced seven children:
# Johanna (1362–1383), married in
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
in 1377 to
Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse
Hermann II of Hesse (1341 – 24 May 1413) was Landgrave of Hesse from 1376 to 1413.
Hermann II, called "the Scholar", was born in 1345 in Burg Grebenstein (de) (Grebenstein castle), the son of Louis the Junker. Louis the Junker was a son of O ...
(ca. 1342 – June 10, 1413). Johanna died on January 1, 1383 in
Marburg
Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...
and was buried.
# John, and
# Johannette (twins, died October 6, 1365).
# Agnes (died 1401), married in 1382 to Count
Simon III Wecker of Zweibrücken-Bitsch.
#
Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg
Count Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg (1368 – 2 July 1429) was Count of Nassau in Weilburg, Count of Saarbrücken and Seigneur of Commercy ''Château bas'' in 1371–1429.
Biography
Philipp was a son of John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1309 †...
# Schonetta (d. 25 April 1436), married:
## on 30 June 1384 to
Henry X of Homburg;
## in 1414 to
Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Osterode
Duke Otto II of Brunswick-Osterode (1396–1452) was a son of Duke Frederick I of Brunswick- Osterode and his wife, Adelaide of Anhalt-Zerbst. He succeeded his father as duke of Brunswick-Osterode in 1421 and ruled jointly with his first cousin on ...
.
# Margarete (d. 22 January 1427), married ca. 1393 to Count
Frederick III of Veldenz.
Ancestors
Sources
* , p. 25.
Nassau, John I of
Nassau, John I of
House of Nassau-Weilburg
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