Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg (ca. 1255 – 29 September 1313?) was the Queen consort of Adolf of Nassau, King of Germany.

Life

Imagina was born in about 1255 (probably in Limburg an der Lahn) to Gerlach I of Limburg and Imagina of Blieskastel. Her father, from the

House of Limburg The House of Limburg (in german: ''Haus von Limbourg'') was a dynasty which can be traced back in the male line as far as Henry, count of Limburg, whose mother Jutta was heiress of Frederick, Duke of Lower Lorraine in the House of Ardenne–Luxembou ...

(a collateral line of the

House of Isenburg The County of Isenburg was a region of Germany located in southern present-day Hesse, located in territories north and south of Frankfurt. The states of Isenburg emerged from the Niederlahngau (located in the Rhineland-Palatinate), which partitio ...

) held power over Limburg an der Lahn. Her paternal grandparents were Henry I of Isenburg-Grenzau and his wife Irmingard of Büdingen, Countess of Cleberg. In 1270, she married Count Adolf of Nassau, from the Walramian Line of the House of Nassau. Their main residences were

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 (Old Town) it is part of the ''Deutsche Fachwerkstraße'' ...

Castle and

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Castle. After the election of Adolf in 1292 as King of Germany, she resided mainly in the ''Reichsburg'' Achalm when she did not accompany her husband on his travels. After the death of her husband in the

Battle of Göllheim The Battle of Göllheim was fought on 2 July 1298 between the forces of duke Albert I of Habsburg (German: Albrecht) and king Adolf of Nassau over the prince electors' decision, without electoral act, to dethrone Adolf and proclaim Albert the ...

, Imagina had the Early

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"King's Cross" erected on the battlefield. In 1309, she witnessed the transfer of her husband's remains from Rosenthal Abbey (in present-day Kerzenheim) to the Speyer Cathedral. Imagina survived her husband by almost two decades but never remarried. For her widow's seat, Imagina initially took Weilburg Castle, and later moved to

Klarenthal Abbey Klarenthal Abbey (''Kloster Klarenthal'' in German) is a former convent of the Order of Poor Ladies in the borough of Klarenthal in Wiesbaden, Germany. Klarenthal is the only abbey in present-day Wiesbaden. History as an active monastery Klarent ...

near

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, where their daughter Adelheid presided as

abbess An abbess (Latin: ''abbatissa''), also known as a mother superior, is the female superior of a community of Catholic nuns in an abbey. Description In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic ...

. Imagina died at Klarenthal Abbey on 29 September 1313 and was buried there.

Children

Imagina's marriage with Adolf produced at least eight children: # Heinrich, died young. # Ruprecht, died 2 December 1304 #

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 ...

. # Adolf (1292–1294). #

Walram III of Nassau-Wiesbaden Waleran, Galeran, or Walram is a Germanic first name, common in the Middle Ages, that may refer to: People *Waleran I of Limburg (died 1082) *Waleran the Hunter (fl. 1086) *Walram (bishop of Naumburg) (r. 1091–1111) *Waleran of Le Puiset (died 11 ...

. # Adelheid, Abbess of

, died 26 May 1338. # Imagina, died young. # Matilde (before 1280 – 19 June 1323, in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

), married Rudolf I "the Stammerer", Duke of Upper Bavaria.

Sources

A. Ullrich, Die Landes- und Kirchengeschichte des Herzogthums Nassau von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Reformation in übersichtlichem Zusammenhang, 2nd Edition. Wiesbaden, 1862. .

External links

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