Henry I, Count of Nassau-Siegen
Henry, Count of Nassau (Dutch: Hendrik van Nassau Siegen, German: Heinrich von Nassau Siegen) (born before 1288 - died July/August 1347) Count of Nassau-Siegen, of Grimborg, Heiger, Westerwald, later of Molsberg, and after his brother's death of Dillenburg. He was a son of Count Otto I of Nassau and Agnes of Leiningen. [1]
Henry married Adelheid of Heinsberg, daughter of Dirk of Heinsberg and Blankenberg and Johanna of Leuven. They had five children:[2]
- Agnes of Nassau, married Gerlach, Lord of Isenburg-Limburg
- Katharina of Nassau, Abbess at Altenburg
- Gertrud of Nassau, Abbess at Altenburg
- Otto II of Nassau
- Henry, born c. 1307. Initially intended for the church, but later married Meyna of Westerburg and became the first Count of Nassau-Beilstein. [3]
References
- ^ De Nederlandsche leeuw: Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde, Volumes 1889-1894, pg 89-91 Google Books
- ^ House of Nassau at Medieval Lands
- ^ Fritz Gerlich, Maximilian II (King of Bavaria), Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Historische Kommission, Duncker & Humblot, 1880, p 549. Google Books