Emich II (Nassau-Hadamar)

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Emich II of Nassau-Hadamar († March 1, 1359 ) was the second son of Count Emich I of Nassau-Hadamar and his wife Anna († approx. 1357), daughter of Burgrave Friedrich III. from Nuremberg .

Life

As a later son, Emich initially became a clergyman ; In 1328 and 1336 he is attested as a canon in Mainz . Soon afterwards he seems to have left the clergy again, because from 1337 his brother Johann participated in the reign of his father's inheritance. As early as 1337 he made an acquisition from Count Gerhard VI. von Diez (X 1343), his sister Jutta's husband. However, he seems to have mostly stayed on the holdings of the House of Nassau-Hadamar around the Reichsburg Kammerstein in Franconia , which had been pledged property since 1299 and imperial fiefs of the House of Nassau-Hadamar since 1348.

At the end of 1350 or beginning of 1351 he and his brother Johann participated on the side of his cousin Otto II von Nassau-Dillenburg in his feud with the brothers Gottfried and Wilderich III. von Walderdorff , in which Otto lost his life.

Presumably - if one considers his later behavior - Emich left the clergy in strife and with lifelong enmity towards the clergy. Wherever an opportunity arose, he withdrew their income from foundations, monasteries and churches. So he moved the Eberbach Abbey , the St. Klara Monastery in Nuremberg (in which his sister Margaretha († 1343) was a nun), the St. Kastorstift in Koblenz and several churches a considerable gradient that they had in Hadamarische Landen. In his last will , however, he gave his brother Johann the full repayment of the income that had been withdrawn from the monasteries and churches.

Emich II died in 1359 unmarried and without descendants. Then Johann ruled alone.

literature

  • Johannes von Arnoldi: History of the Orange-Nassau countries and their regents. Volume 1, Neue Gelehrtenbuchhandlung, Hadamar 1799, pp. 97-98 (digitized version ) .
  • Ernst Münch : History of the House of Nassau-Orange . Volume 2, Mayer, Aachen and Leipzig 1832, p. 287 (digitized version) .
  • Jacob Wagner: The regent family of Nassau-Hadamar. History of the Principality of Hadamar. Volume 1, Mechitharisten-Congregations-Buchhandlung, Vienna 1863, pp. 44–45 (digitized version ) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Ausfeld:  Otto II. (Count of Nassau) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 707 f.
personal data
SURNAME Emich II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emich II of Nassau-Hadamar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Nassau-Hadamar
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1359