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The House of Nassau
The first ancestor of this house was one Dudo, "advocatus et comes de Lurenburch" [Laurenburg] (1093-1117), who left issue:

A1. Gf Ruprecht I von Laurenburg, +before 13.5.1154; m.before 1135 Beatrix of Limburg (+after 1164)
- B1. Gf Arnold II von Nassau, +after 1.4.1159
  - (C1. Gf Ruprecht III von Nassau, +in Palestina 1190; m.before 1169 Gfn Elisabeth von Schaumburg (+1235/38))
    - D2. Lukarde, +by 1222; m.ca 1200 Gebhard IV von Querfurt, Bggf von Magdeburg (+ca 1213); 2m: before 1217 Gf Hermann III von Virneburg
- B2. Ruprecht II, +after 1.4.1159; he was apparently father of:
  - C1. Walram I von Laurenburg, Gf von Nassau (1151/93-98); he took the Cross 1189, +5.7.1197, bur Kloster Arnstein; m.Kunigunde von Ziegenhain (fl 1198)
    - D1. Heinrich II "der Reiche", Gf von Nassau, zu Wiesbaden (1198-1249?), *1180, +by 25.1.1251; m.before 1221 Matilda of Geldern (+after 1247)
      - E1. Gf Walram II von Nassau (1249-76), *ca 1220, +24.1.1276; he reigned with his brother Otto until 1255, when they divided the lands; he took Weilburg, Idstein and Wiesbaden; m.before 1250 Adelheid von Katzenelnbogen (+Mainz 22.2.1288)
        F1. Diether, Archbishop of Trier (1300-07), +Trier 23.11.1307
        F2. Gf Adolf von Nassau (1276-98), German King (5.5.1292-23.6.1298), *ca 1255, +k.a.nr Göllheim 2.7.1298, bur Kaiser Dom, Speyer; m.ca 1271 Imagina von Limburg (fl 1279/1317, +29.9.after 1313)
        G1. Heinrich, +young
        G2. Gf Ruprecht, +2.12.1304, bur Prague
        G3. Gf Gerlach I von Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein u.Weilburg, and Weilnau (1298-1344) abdicated, +1.1.1361; 1m: 1307 Agnes of Hesse (+13.1.1332); 2m: before 4.1.1337 Irmgard von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (+11.5.1372)
        H1. Gf Adolf I von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1361-70), *1307, +Idstein 17.1.1370; m.1332 Margarete of Nürnberg (+after 13.11.1392); for his issue see HERE
        H2. Gf Johann I von Nassau-Weilburg (1355-71), *1309, +Weilburg 20.9.1371; 1m: 1333 Gertrud von Merenberg, heiress of Merenberg and Gleiberg (+6.10.1350); 2m: 1353 Johanna von Saarbrücken, Dame de Commercy (+X.1381); for his descendants see HERE
        H3. Gerlach, Elector-Archbishop of Mainz (1346-71), *1322, +Aschaffenburg 12.2.1371
        H4. [2m.] Gf Kraft von Nassau in Sonnenberg, a canon in Strassburg, +after 1361
        H5. [2m.] Gf Ruprecht von Nassau in Sonnenberg, +4.9.1390; m.before 8.11.1362 Gfn Anna von Nassau-Hadamar (+1404)
        H6. [1m.] Adelheid, +8.8.1344; m.1329 Gf Ulrich III zu Hanau (+1369/70)
        H7. [1m.] Agnes, a nun at Klarenthal 1355
        H8. [1m.] Elisabeth, fl 1326-70; m.before 16.8.1326 Ludwig von Hohenlohe (+1356)
        H9. [1m.] Marie, +by 1366; m.before 1336 Konrad von Weinsberg, gt von Breuberg (+1366)
        
        G4. Adolf, *1292, +1294
        G5. Gf Walram III von Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein u.Weilnau (1298-1324), *1294, +after 22.12.1324
        G6. Adelheid, Abbess of Klarenthal, +26.5.1338
        G7. Imagina, +young
        G8. Matilde, *before 1280, +Heidelberg 19.6.1323, bur Klarenthal bei Wiesbaden; m.Nürnberg 1.9.1294 Duke Rudolf I of Bavaria (*4.10.1274 +12.8.1319)
        
        F3. Matilde, +young
        F4. Richardis, a nun in Klarenthal and Mainz, +28.7.1311
      - E2. Ruprecht, +before 1247
      - E3. Gf Otto I von Nassau (1249-55), in Siegen, Dillenburg, Beilstein u.Ginsberg (1255-90), *1247 (?), +1290; m.Agnes von Leiningen (+1299/1303); for their descendants see HERE
      - E4. Heinrich, a monk in Arnstein, fl 1247
      - E5. Gerhard, a canon in Aachen, Liége, etc, +1313
      - E6. Johann, Bp of Utrecht, +Deventer 13.7.1309; he had illegitimate issue:
        F1. Johann, +k.a.Zwolle 4.6.1352; 1m: Frieda von Appeldoorn (+4.7.1350); 2m: Ermgard ter Ov (+after 4.6.1352)
        F2. Jakob, +by 1350; m.Nesta N (fl 1350)
        G1. Eberhard, a canon in Deventer, +7.12.1391
        
        F3. Otto, fl 1320
        F4. Mechtild, +Deventer 1350; m.J.Vrijherte
      - E7. Elisabeth, +after 6.1.1295; m.Gerhard von Eppstein (+1252)
      - E8. Katharina, Abbess of Altenburg, +27.4.1324
      - E9. Jutta, +1313; m.ca 1260 Johann I, Hr von Cuyck (+13.7.1308)
      - (E10. Irmgard, Abbess of Val-Benmont, +1297)
    - D2. Gf Ruprecht IV von Nassau-Wiesbaden, +after 1238; m.by 1229 Gertrud N (+ca 1222)
    - D3. Beatrix, a nun at Affolderbach
  - C2. Gf Heinrich I von Nassau, +of the plague in Italy 1167
- (B3. Gerhard von Laurenburg, fl 1148)
A2. Arnold I, Vogt von St.Georg, Limburg, fl 1124-48
A3. Demudis; m.Gf Embricho von Diez

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