Johann II (Nassau)

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Johann II of Nassau-Dillenburg (* around 1365 ; † May 1443 in Dillenburg ) (called with the hood , Haubner , the elder ) was Count of Nassau-Dillenburg . He was a son of Count Johann I von Nassau and his wife Margarethe von der Mark.

Life

Like his father, Johann was very belligerent and involved in numerous feuds with the Landgraves of Hesse and Kurtrier . With his brothers Adolf , Johann III. and Engelbert but he understood, and so it happened in 1409 to a contract of inheritance between them. When the succession occurred in 1416, the brothers divided the government.

When his brother Adolf died in 1420 without an heir, Johann received the area around Dillenburg and Hadamar . After the death of Johann III. around 1430 there was a new division of administration, with Johann II receiving the German areas and Engelbert the Dutch. Engelbert inherited the county of Vianden as early as 1417 . In 1420 half of the County of Diez fell to the brothers through Adolf's inheritance .

They gave up their claims to Kleve and the county of Mark in 1424 against payment of 12,000 gold florins, which Adolf von Kleve paid. Around 1429 the Counts of Virneburg paid 21,000 gold guilders to the brothers in order to settle their claims to the rule of Ravenstein with Herpen and Uden .

At the end of his life, Johann left the administration of the land to Engelbert's sons.

family

Johann remained unmarried throughout his life, but not without children. With an Adelheid he had a daughter and a son. The daughter Adelheid moved to the Keppel monastery in 1438 . His son Tilmann "Bastard von Nassau" got the castle loan of Wallenfels in 1461 .

literature

  • General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts Part 2, Volume 21, P. 135 Digitized

Individual proof

  1. ^ Christian von Stramberg, Memorable and Useful RheinischerAntiquarius P. 728 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Johann II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann II of Nassau-Dillenburg; Johann with the hood; the Haubner; Johann the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH May 1443
Place of death Dillenburg