Elisabeth von Leiningen

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The coat of arms of the Counts of Leiningen

Elisabeth von Leiningen († June 20, around 1235/38), was a countess from the house of Leiningen and was countess of Nassau by marriage . As a widow, she used the name Countess von Schaumburg .

Life

Schaumburg Castle from the west

Elisabeth was a daughter of Count Emich III. from Leiningen. She married Count Ruprecht III in or before 1169 . the disputants of Nassau († December 23/28, 1191). She had two children with him:

  1. Hermann († July 16, before 1206), Count of Nassau 1190–1192, later Canon of Mainz .
  2. Lukardis († before 1222); ⚭ before February 27, 1204 Count Hermann V (III.) Von Virneburg († after 1254).

Elisabeth's husband is mentioned as the Count of Nassau between 1160 and 1190. He took part in the Third Crusade under Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa ; it appears that he held out until after Acre was captured and then died on the return voyage at sea.

“ Elysa comitissa dicta de Schowenburg, relicta… Ruperti comitis de Nassowe” sold property to the Johannisberg monastery, with the permission “ Hermanni comitis de Virneburg et Luccardis conthoralis ipsius filie nostre advocatiam et iudicium ville Steinheim”, in a document dated February 27, 1204.

When her brother Friedrich II died around 1217/20, Elisabeth inherited a third part of the Schaumburg and the rule that went with it . After her death, her part came into the possession of her grandchildren, Counts Ruprecht I and Heinrich I of Virneburg.

" Lucardis comitissa de Sarebrugen ... cum sororibus nostris Alverade quondam comitissa de Cleberc et Elysa quondam etiam comitissa de Nassowe" donated property to the Limburg Cathedral in a deed from 1235.

The necrology of the Arnstein monastery documented the death " Elizabetis comitisse de Nassauwe, que legavit nobis elemosinam bonam" on June 20th.

literature

  • AWE Dek: Genealogy van het Vorstenhuis Nassau . Europese Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel 1970 (Dutch).
  • HFJ Hesselfelt: De oudste generaties van het Huis Nassau . In: De Nederlandsche Leeuw, Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde . No. 11 , 1965, pp. 354-365 (Dutch).
  • Alfred Lück: Siegerland and Nederland . 2nd Edition. Siegerländer Heimatverein eV, Siegen 1981.
  • Wilhelm Sauer:  Ruprecht III., Count of Laurenburg-Nassau . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 730 f.
  • AA Vorsterman van Oyen: Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden dead . AW Sijthoff & JL Beijers, Leiden & Utrecht 1882 (Dutch).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Cawley (Nassau).
  2. ↑ a b c d Cawley (Palatinate).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Dek (1970).
  4. ↑ According to Cawley (Palatinate) she was not a daughter of Count Emich III. von Leiningen, but his brother, whose name is unknown.
  5. ↑ a b c d Hesselfelt (1965).
  6. ↑ a b Vorsterman van Oyen (1882).
  7. ↑ Dek (1970) and Hesselfelt (1965) mention that Lukardis was first married around 1200 to Gebhard IV. Von Querfurt, Burgrave of Magdeburg († Querfurt, 1213) and then in 1214 to Count Hermann V. von Virneburg. In an earlier version, Cawley (Nassau) stated that there was reasonable doubt as to whether Lukardis was first married to Gebhard von Querfurt. In view of the date of a document (February 27, 1204) in which Lukardis' mother sells property with the permission of Hermann von Virneburg and his wife Lukardis, Lukardis and Hermann cannot have married until 1214. And since Gebhard von Querfurt only died in 1213, a marriage with Lukardis is very unlikely. The first marriage has since been completely removed from Cawley's website. Vorsterman van Oyen (1882) only mentions Lukardis' marriage to Count Hermann von Virneburg.
  8. ↑ Lück (1981), p. 18.
  9. ↑ a b Sauer (1889).
personal data
SURNAME Elisabeth von Leiningen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Nassau and Countess of Leiningen
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1235 or June 20, 1238