Heinrich I (Nassau)

The coat of arms of the Counts of Nassau

Heinrich I of Nassau († August 1167 in Rome ) was the first person to call himself Count of Nassau .

Life

Nassau Castle

Heinrich was probably the son of Count Ruprecht II von Laurenburg and an unknown woman.

Heinrich is mentioned as Count of Nassau between 1160 and 1167. He ruled together with his cousin Ruprecht III.

In 1161 Heinrich was in the camp of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa . In 1167 Heinrich was the leader of a Cologne association in Italy . Heinrich died of the plague in Rome in August 1167 .

progeny

No marriage was mentioned of Heinrich, he probably never married.

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.

Web links

• History of Nassau Castle .
• History of the Earls of Nassau .
• Nassau In: Medieval Lands. A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families , compiled by Charles Cawley.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hesselfelt (1965).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Dek (1970).
3. ↑ Lück (1981), p. 18.

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Count of Nassau 1160–1167	Ruprecht III.