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In 1336, Henry's sons Otto and Henry signed a distribution treaty for their father's county. In 1339, however, the youngest son Henry married against the will of his father and brother. It came to battle between the two brothers. Otto entered into an alliance with Landgrave Herman I of Hesse against his brother Henry.
John I was the second son of Count Gerlach I of Nassau-Wiesbaden and Agnes of Hesse, granddaughter of Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse. On Gerlach I abdication in 1346, John and his brothers divided the family lands. John acquired Weilburg on the Lahn . John was elevated by Emperor Charles IV in 1366 to Imperial Count. He died on September 20, 1371.
Ultimately, he failed in both Hesse and Brunswick and had to withdraw in exchange for financial compensation. In 1387, he tried to impose his influence on the city of Göttingen, but had little success. In April, the citizens of Göttingen stormed the ducal castle inside the city walls. In return, Otto devastated villages and farmsteads in the ...
Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1307 – 17 January 1370) was a son of Count Gerlach I and Agnes of Hesse. In 1344, his father abdicated in favor of his sons. They ruled jointly until 1355, then divided their inheritance: Adolph I inherited Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (this line died out in the male line in 1605)
Henry III's eldest son Adolf II of Waldeck served as regent of the County of Waldeck upon his grandfather's death in 1270. However, at the time of Henry III's death, his three sons with their mother Matilda decided that the County of Waldeck should descend to whoever of the three sons were to marry the then underage Sophia, daughter of Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse .
The two leaders of the Schmalkaldic League, Elector John Frederick I of Saxony and Landgrave Philip I of Hesse, formed an army in the middle of 1546. The Counts of Waldeck responded to the landgrave's call for support. Emperor Charles V emerged victorious from the Schmalkaldic War on 24 April 1547 at the Battle of Mühlberg.
Henry I van Vianden (d. 1267), bishop of Utrecht from 1249 to 1267. Philip I (d. 1273), Count of Vianden 1252-1273. He married Marie of Brabant - Perwez, daughter of Godfrey of Louvain, Lord of Perwez, apparently a descendant of Godfrey III, Count of Louvain and Landgrave of Brabant (1142-1190).
