Count Wolrad I of Waldeck ( 1399 – after 1 February 1475) was a son of Count
Henry VII of
Waldeck and his wife Margaret of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein. He was named after his maternal grandfather, and was the first Wolrad in the House of Waldeck. He succeeded his father as the reigning Count of Waldeck-Waldeck in 1442 – whether this was before or after his father's death is still unclear. The House Waldeck had been split since 1397 into the senior Waldeck-Landau line and the junior Waldeck-Waldeck line.
Life
Before he took office in Waldeck, Wolrad was appointed by Archbishop
Conrad III of
Mainz
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as magistrate and bailiff of the towns and castles of
Amöneburg,
Battenberg,
Neustadt,
Rosenthal, Hausen in
Knüllwald,
Fritzlar
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The town has a medieval center ringed by a wall with numerous watch towers. high ...
,
Jesberg,
Hofgeismar,
Naumburg,
Wetter and Rhoden near
Diemelstadt, plus the associated villages and bailiwicks, in Electoral Mainz. In 1438, Count
John II of Ziegenhain succeeded him on this post. John II was in turn succeeded in 1439 by Landgrave
Louis I of Hesse.
Wolrad died in 1475 and was succeeded by his son
Philip I. When Philip I died later that year, his younger brother
Philip II became
regent
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for Philip I's minor son
Henry VIII
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. In 1486, Henry VIII and Philip II decided to split the county: Henry VIII received Waldeck-Wildungen, the southern part, and Philip II received the northern part, Waldeck-Eisenberg.
Marriage and issue
In March 1440 Wolrad married Barbara of Wertheim, a daughter of Count Michael I of Wertheim and Sophie von Henneberg. Wolrad and Barbara joined the
Kalands Brethren in Korbach.
They had three children:
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Philip I (1445–1475), Count of Waldeck-Waldeck
*
Philip II (born: 3 March 1453; died: 26 October 1524), canon, acted from 1475 as the regent of his nephew, Henry VIII of Waldeck-Waldeck; became Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg in 1486
* Elizabeth (born: c. 1455; died: 15 March 1513), married on 15 October 1471 Duke
Albert II of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1419–1485) lived and after his death on the
Old Castle at
Osterode am Harz.
References
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* Ingeborg Schwarzenberg Cleriucs, "Origen de algunas familias alemanas radicadas en Chile, Menke-Waldeck", Instituto Chileno de Investigaciones Genealógicas. (1966–1967). Revista de Estudios Históricos. Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Los Andes. Vol. 14, pp. 62–65.
External links
Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen, ''Grundlage der Waldeckischen Landes- und Regentengeschichte,'' Part Two, Speyer’sche Buchhandlung, Arolsen, 1853Wolrad I at waldecker-muenzen.de
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1390s births
Year of birth uncertain
1475 deaths
15th-century German nobility
Counts of Waldeck
House of Waldeck