Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg
Life
Imagina was born in about 1255 (probably in
In 1270, she married Count Adolf of Nassau, from the Walramian Line of the
After the death of her husband in the Battle of Göllheim, Imagina had the Early Gothic "King's Cross" erected on the battlefield. In 1309, she witnessed the transfer of her husband's remains from Rosenthal Abbey (in present-day Kerzenheim) to the Speyer Cathedral.
Imagina survived her husband by almost two decades but never remarried. For her widow's seat, Imagina initially took Weilburg Castle, and later moved to Klarenthal Abbey near Wiesbaden, where their daughter Adelheid presided as abbess. Imagina died at Klarenthal Abbey on 29 September 1313 and was buried there.
Children
Imagina's marriage with Adolf produced at least eight children:
- Heinrich, died young.
- Ruprecht, died 2 December 1304
- Gerlach I of Nassau-Wiesbaden.
- Adolf (1292–1294).
- Walram III of Nassau-Wiesbaden.
- Adelheid, Abbess of Klarenthal Abbey, died 26 May 1338.
- Imagina, died young.
- Matilde (before 1280 – 19 June 1323, in Heidelberg), married Rudolf I "the Stammerer", Duke of Upper Bavaria.
Sources
A. Ullrich, Die Landes- und Kirchengeschichte des Herzogthums Nassau von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Reformation in übersichtlichem Zusammenhang, 2nd Edition. Wiesbaden, 1862. (in German).
External links
- Marek, Miroslav. "A listing of descendants of the Isenburg family". Genealogy.EU.
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