Margarethe von Hanau-Lichtenberg (1463–1504)

Margarethe von Hanau, Countess of Nassau (drawing of the non-preserved tomb from 1632)

Margarethe von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* May 15, 1463 , Lichtenberg ; † May 26, 1504 ) was a daughter of Count Philip I of Hanau-Lichtenberg and, by marriage, Countess of Nassau-Wiesbaden .

Pedigree of Countess Margarethe von Hanau-Lichtenberg
Great grandparents	Ulrich IV. Von Hanau (* approx. 1330; † 1380) ⚭ Elisabeth von Wertheim (* 1347; † 1378)	Heinrich II. Of Nassau-Beilstein (* 1374; † 1412) ⚭ Katharina von Randerode († 1415)	Ludwig IV of Lichtenberg (* 1387; † 1434) ⚭ Anna von Baden (* 1399; † 1421)	Albrecht I of Hohenlohe (* 1370; † 1429) ⚭ Elisabeth von Hanau (* 1395; † 1475)
Grandparents	Reinhard II. Von Hanau (* 1369; † 1451) ⚭ Katharina von Nassau-Beilstein († 1459)		Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1471) ⚭ Elisabeth von Hohenlohe († 1488)
parents	Philipp I von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1480) ⚭ Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474)
Margarethe von Hanau-Lichtenberg

For the family cf. Main article: Hanau (noble family)

Margarethe married Count Adolf III on June 20, 1484 . von Nassau-Wiesbaden (born November 10, 1443, † November 6, 1511 in Wiesbaden), governor of Geldern and Zütphen . He was the eldest son of Johann von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (* 1419; † May 9, 1480) and Maria von Nassau-Dillenburg (* February 2, 1418; † October 11, 1472).

Margarethe and Adolf had four children:

Anna, † as a child
Maria Margaretha (born August 9, 1487 at Sonnenberg Castle ; † March 2, 1548), ⚭ 1502 Count Ludwig I of Nassau-Weilburg († May 28, 1523)
Anna (born July 9, 1490 in Leiden ; † November 10, 1550), ⚭ 1506 Count Heinrich XXXI. von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (* 1473; † August 4, 1528 in Nordhausen )
Philip I (born April 26, 1492 in Cologne , † June 6, 1558 in Idstein , allegedly buried in Klarenthal Abbey ), 1511 Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein

⚭ 1514 Adriana de Glymes (born March 9, 1495 in Wouw Castle ; † June 27, 1524)

Margarethe was buried in Wiesbaden.

literature

Pierre Even: Luxembourg-Nassau dynasty. From the Counts of Nassau to the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg. A nine hundred year history of rulers in one hundred biographies . Luxemburg 2000. p. 34 (with illustration: drawing of the epitaph with portrait).
Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables: Family tables for the history of European states .
Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Hanau 1894.
Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919. ND 1978.

Individual evidence

↑ F. Otto: The oldest court book of the city of Wiesbaden, p. 68 [1]
↑ According to Schwennicke; According to Suchier: 1479.
↑ On his person see: Pierre Even, pp. 33–35 (with illustration: drawing of the epitaph with portrait).
^ So: Schwennicke; after Walter Czysz: Klarenthal near Wiesbaden. A women's monastery in the Middle Ages 1298 - 1559 . Wiesbaden 1987, but since the end of the 14th century (with one exception) the Counts of Nassau were no longer buried in Klarenthal Abbey, but in the main churches of their respective residential cities.

personal data
SURNAME	Hanau-Lichtenberg, Margarethe von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Margarethe of Nassau-Wiesbaden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German countess
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1463
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lichtenberg
DATE OF DEATH	May 26, 1504

[1] F. Otto: The oldest court book of the city of Wiesbaden, p. 68 [1]

[2] According to Schwennicke; According to Suchier: 1479.

[3] On his person see: Pierre Even, pp. 33–35 (with illustration: drawing of the epitaph with portrait).

[4] So: Schwennicke; after Walter Czysz: Klarenthal near Wiesbaden. A women's monastery in the Middle Ages 1298 - 1559 . Wiesbaden 1987, but since the end of the 14th century (with one exception) the Counts of Nassau were no longer buried in Klarenthal Abbey, but in the main churches of their respective residential cities.