Walram II (Nassau)

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The coat of arms of the Counts of Nassau from the Walram line

Walram II (* around 1220 ; † January 24, 1276 ) was Count of Nassau and the founder of the Walram line of the House of Nassau .

Life

Walram was the second son of Count Heinrich II the Rich of Nassau and his wife Mathilde von Geldern and Zütphen , the youngest daughter of Count Otto I. von Geldern and Zütphen and Richardis von Scheyern-Wittelsbach. Walram is mentioned for the first time in a document dated July 20, 1245.

Before January 25, 1251, Walram and his brother Otto I succeeded his father. 1251 they received from King William of Holland , the city charter for the city of Herborn .

Walram and Otto divided their county on December 16, 1255, with the Lahn as the border. The area south of the Lahn, the lords of Wiesbaden , Idstein , the offices of Weilburg (with the weir wood) and Bleidenstadt , came to Walram. The Burg Nassau and dependencies (the "Dreiherrische"), the posts Miehlen and Schönau ( Kloster Schönau at Strüth ) and the four Mr court , the Burg Laurenburg that Esterau (co-owned with the counts of Diez ) and the fief in the Landgraviate Hessen remained in common ownership.

Later, perhaps soon after the conclusion of this contract, Walram was dissatisfied with individual provisions of the same and challenged them. Whether or not he was acting under the pressure of the mental illness from which he was suffering is unknown. What is certain is that in an attack of mental disorder he burned the original copy of the certificate of division made out for him.

Walram was Oberhofmarschall and privy councilor of the German King Rudolf I.

Walram lost several cities, including Niederlahnstein , Pfaffenhofen and Vallendar , to the Archbishop of Trier . He also continued the Dernbach feud against Hesse . He died - allegedly mentally deranged - on January 24, 1276. His son Adolf succeeded him.

progeny

Walram married before 1250 Adelheid von Katzenelnbogen († Mainz , February 22, 1288), daughter of Count Diether IV von Katzenelnbogen and his wife Hildegunde. As a widow, Adelheid became a Franciscan in Wiesbaden (in summer) and in Mainz (in winter). She was buried in the monastery of St. Klara in Mainz.
From this marriage emerged:

  1. Diether (* around 1250; † Trier , November 23, 1307), was Archbishop and Elector of Trier 1300–1307.
  2. Adolf (* around 1255; † Göllheim , July 2, 1298), successor to his father, was Roman-German king 1292–1298.
  3. Richardis († July 28, 1311), was a nun in the St. Klara Monastery in Mainz and later in the Klarenthal Monastery near Wiesbaden.
  4. Mathilda (died young).
  5. Imagina († before 1276), ⚭ possibly Friedrich von Lichtenberg.

According to recent research, the as was Blessed revered mystic Christina of Savior most likely one of the daughters Walrams II.

literature

  • E. Becker: Castle and City of Dillenburg. A walk through their history in the Middle Ages and modern times. Published for the commemoration of the city charter on September 20, 1344 . 2nd Edition. The City Council of Dillenburg, Dillenburg 1983.
  • AWE Dek: Genealogy van het Vorstenhuis Nassau . Europese Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel 1970 (Dutch).
  • Michel Huberty, Alain Giraud, F. & B. Magdelaine: l'Allemagne Dynastique. Tome III Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg . Alain Giraud, Le Perreux 1981 (French).
  • AP van Schilfgaarde: Zegels en genealogische Gegevens van de graven en hertogen van Gelre, graven van Zutphen . S. Gouda Quint - D. Brouwer en Zoon, Arnhem 1967 (Dutch).
  • Wilhelm Sauer:  Count Walram II of Nassau . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 778 f.
  • AA Vorsterman van Oyen: Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden dead . AW Sijthoff & JL Beijers, Leiden & Utrecht 1882 (Dutch).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Cawley.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dek (1970).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Vorsterman van Oyen (1882).
  4. ↑ Van Schilfgaarde (1967).
  5. ↑ a b Becker (1983), p. 11.
  6. ↑ a b c Huberty, et al. (1981).
  7. ↑ The division agreement is now known as the prima divisio .
  8. ↑ Huberty, et al. (1981): "Nassau castle and office were called" the trio "because they owned the Ottonian line and two side lines of the Walram line (Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg) until 1778."
  9. ↑ Huberty, et al. (1981): “The offices of Miehlen and Schönau remained in common ownership until 1303. Then they were given to the Walram line, where both side lines owned them together until 1778. "
  10. ↑ Huberty, et al. (1981): “The court of four men was named after its four owners, the Counts of Katzenelnbogen (Hesse), Diez (Nassau-Diez), Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg. In 1774 these areas, which consisted of 38 villages around the city of Nastato, were divided. "
  11. ^ Sauer (1896).
  12. ↑ "Retters, Christina von". Hessian biography. (As of February 26, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
predecessor Office successor
Henry II Count of Nassau
before 1251–1276 		Adolf
personal data
SURNAME Walram II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Nassau
DATE OF BIRTH around 1220
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1276