Adolf II (Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein)
Adolf II (* 1386 ; † July 26, 1426 ) was Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein .
family
He was the only son of Count Walram IV of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1354-1393) and his wife Bertha von Westerburg († March 24, 1418). His uncle, as Johann II, was elector and archbishop of Mainz from 1397 to 1419 . Count Adolf's only sister had been married to Count Heinrich VII von Waldeck since 1398 .
He himself married Margaretha von Baden on March 1, 1418 (* January 25, 1404; † November 7, 1442), a daughter of Margrave Bernhard I of Baden (1364–1431). The following children were born from the marriage:
- Johann (1419–1480), successor to his father as Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein
- Anna (1421–1465) married Eberhard III in 1438 . von Eppstein († 1466), son of Eberhard II. von Eppstein
- Adolf (around 1423–1475), Archbishop Adolf II of Mainz (1461–1475)
- Walram (around 1426)
- Agnes († June 13, 1485) married Konrad VII. Von Bickenbach († 1483) around 1451
Life
Adolf II succeeded his father in the county government in 1393. From 1404 he was the chief bailiff of the Mainz possessions in Hesse. After his death in 1426, his widow took over the guardianship of her underage children.
Special feature of the grave monument
In 1632 or 1650 the tombs of the Nassau counts and their relatives were dismantled in the church of the former Nassau house monastery Klarenthal, now in ruins, and installed in the most important church in Wiesbaden at the time , the Mauritius Church . All of them were destroyed in their great fire in 1850. The Idstein grave monument of Adolf II from 1426, the work of an anonymous master resident in Mainz , is the oldest surviving grave monument of a Wiesbaden-Idstein regent.
Web links
- Nassau-Idstein, Adolf II. Count of. Hessian biography. (As of December 29, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). (Note: with a different date of birth 1375)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Count Adolf II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein and his wife Margaretha von Baden 1426/1442, Idstein. Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650 (as of December 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv - Lehnsarchive , accessed on December 29, 2018
- ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse-Evangelical Parish Church (Union Church) Idstein , accessed on December 29, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adolf II |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adolf II of Nassau-Wiesbaden |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1386 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1426 |