Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg

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Plaster cast of the seal of the imagina around 1306 with the inscription + S YMAGIE. DEI GRA QVONDAM. ROMANOR REGINE

Imagina von Isenburg-Limburg (†  September 29 after 1317 ) was a German noblewoman from the Isenburg family . Through their marriage, she successively became Countess of Nassau, Roman-German Queen and Landgrave of Thuringia.

Life

Imagina was a daughter of Gerlach I from the House of Limburg , a side line of the Lords of Isenburg, and Imagina von Blieskastel . Her sister Agnes was married to Heinrich von Westerburg . He was a brother of Siegfried von Westerburg , Archbishop and Elector of Cologne .

Imagina married Count Adolf von Nassau around 1271 (* around 1255; †  Göllheim , July 2, 1298) from the Walram line of the House of Nassau . Adolf's brother Diether was in the service of Pope Boniface VIII from 1295 and became Archbishop and Elector of Trier in 1300 .

Countess of Nassau

The Sonnenberg Castle

Adolf became cupbearer to the Archbishop of Cologne in 1273 . In 1276 he succeeded his father Walram II as Count of Nassau. Around 1280 he was involved in the Nassau-Eppstein feud , as a result of which the Eppsteiner destroyed the city of Wiesbaden and Sonnenberg Castle . After three years a settlement was made in 1283. The city of Wiesbaden and Sonnenberg Castle were rebuilt. Sonnenberg Castle became the residence of Adolf and Imagina next to Idstein Castle .

According to a document dated February 27, 1284, "Adolphus comes de Nassowe et Ymagina nostra collateralis" exchanged ownership with the church of Weilburg .

Adolf was almost forty when he was elected Roman-German King . Until then, his political activities had been limited to his role as ally of the Archbishop of Cologne. In 1288 he commanded the army of the Archbishop of Cologne at the Battle of Worringen . Adolf did not have his own office , but due to his relationships with the archbishops of Cologne and Mainz he was probably familiar with the political situation in the Middle Rhine region and Mainz. He spoke German , French and Latin , which was rare even among aristocrats at the time.

Roman-German queen

Donor pictures of King Adolf and Imaginas on glass paintings in Altenberg Monastery , copied around 1805 (?), Erbach , Gräfliche Rentkammer

On May 5, 1292 Adolf was elected in Frankfurt am Main . However, due to the commitments he had made, his power was limited from the start. Adolf and Imagina were crowned king and queen in Aachen on June 24th .

After being elected King of Rome, Adolf and Imagina were rarely in Nassau. Imagina mainly resided at the Achalm Castle when she was not accompanying her husband on his travels. Her court was a magnet for everyone who sought protection from the territorial lords of the empire that were becoming more powerful. Adolf held numerous court days .

In 1294 Adolf intervened in Thuringia, which had been shattered by fighting, by buying the Landgraviate of Albrecht the Degenerate . Adolf used the fighting that had broken out between Albrecht and his sons Friedrich and Dietrich . Imagina also became Landgravine of Thuringia.

Adolf and Imagina founded the Klarenthal Abbey near Wiesbaden on September 29, 1296 .

Adolf's previously accepted Thuringian policy was the reason for the dispute with the elector. On June 23, 1298, Adolf was declared unworthy of his office and forfeited his royal dignity. Albrecht von Habsburg was elected as his successor. The conflict between Adolf and the princely opposition was soon decided on the battlefield. On July 2, 1298, the armies of Adolf and Albrecht met in the battle of Göllheim . After violent attacks, Adolf fell together with his standard bearer and some loyal followers. Thereupon his army turned to flee and disbanded. His son Ruprecht was captured by the Archbishop of Mainz, Gerhard II von Eppstein . The Lords of Eppstein had been the enemies of the Nassauer for generations.

widow

King Heinrich VII allows the bodies of Albrecht and Adolf to be transferred to Speyer; widows Elisabeth and Imagina at the coffin. Wood engraving, around 1860, after a drawing by Adolph Ehrhardt (1813–1899). 15 × 19 cm. Berlin, Collection Archive f. Art & history

The new King Albrecht I prevented Adolf's followers from burying the fallen king in the Speyer Cathedral . That is why Adolf was initially buried near Göllheim in the Cistercian convent Rosenthal on behalf of Imagina . According to folk tradition, she had the early Gothic king cross erected at the place of death . However, today's historiography assumes their son Gerlach to be the builder. It is the oldest field cross in the Palatinate .

After Adolf's death, the Archbishop of Mainz, together with his relatives, the Lords of Eppstein, seized Sonnenberg Castle and destroyed it. Imagina's son Gerlach, then still a child, was saved. Imagina settled in Weilburg Castle, her widow's seat .

Imagina asked Elisabeth , the wife of the new King Albrecht, to release her son Ruprecht at the court day in Nuremberg in autumn 1298 . In 1299 he was released from the archbishop's custody by the Lord of Rheinberg after the Mainz bishop's registers (No. 0617).

On August 29, 1309, King Heinrich VII had Adolf's body transferred to the royal crypt in the Speyer Cathedral. He was buried here next to Albrecht I, who had been murdered by a regicide in 1308 . Imagina was present at this funeral.

At the end of her life, Imagina retired to the Klarenthal Monastery, which she had founded, where her daughter Adelheid was abbess . She was also buried there. In 1632 or 1650 her grave monument was transferred from the destroyed monastery church to the Mauritius church in Wiesbaden . This church was destroyed by fire in 1850 and Imagina's funerary monument was lost.

progeny

The grave monument of Adelheid von Nassau, Abbess of Klarenthal, in the Klarenthal monastery. Drawing from Heinrich Dors' book of epitaphs , 1632

The children come from their marriage:

  1. Heinrich († young)
  2. Mechthild (* before 1280, †  Heidelberg , June 19, 1323), ∞ Nuremberg, September 1, 1294 with Rudolf I den Stammler (*  Basel (?), October 4, 1274, † in England (?), August 12, 1319 ). Mechthild was buried in Klarenthal Abbey.
  3. Ruprecht V (* 1280, † December 2, 1304), successor of his father as Count of Nassau, ruled with his brother Gerlach
  4. Adelheid († June 7, 1338), was a nun in the monastery of St. Klara in Mainz and since 1311 abbess of the monastery Klarenthal
  5. Imagina († young)
  6. Gerlach I (* before 1288, † January 7, 1361), successor of his father as Count of Nassau, ruled with his brothers Ruprecht and Walram
  7. Adolf (* 1292; † 1294)
  8. Walram III. (* 1294; † after December 22, 1324), ruled 1312-1316 with his brother Gerlach

literature

Web links

Commons : Imagina von Isenburg-Limburg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i Cawley.
  2. a b c Dek (1970).
  3. a b Gauert (1953).
  4. Lück (1981), p. 18.
  5. a b Vorsterman van Oyen (1882).
  6. ^ RI VI, 2 n.1056 on: Regesta Imperii Online (accessed February 10, 2013).
  7. Cawley quotes from the Annales Colmarienses which registered in 1299 that "filium regis Adolfi" was released from prison by "dominus de Rinperch" .
  8. ^ Taken from: Cawley, Schwennicke (1978), Dek (1970) and Vorsterman van Oyen (1882). The sources indicate different orders in which the children were born. Another son Adolf (born 1288, died young) is mentioned on the website Deutsche Insschriften Online . This son is not mentioned in any other genealogy.
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