Philipp I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg
Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg
	John I of Nassau-Weilburg
Mother	Johanna of Saarbrücken

Count Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg (1368 – 2 July 1429) was

Count of Nassau in Weilburg, Count of Saarbrücken

and Seigneur of Commercy Château bas in 1371–1429.

Biography

Philipp was a son of John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1309 – 1371) and Johanna, Countess of Saarbrücken (d. 1381), daughter of John II, Count of Saarbrücken (d. 1381).

Philipp inherited the

County of Nassau-Weilburg from his father in 1371 and the County of Saarbrücken from his mother 1381. For the first ten years, his mother was the regent in his place, then bishop Friedrich of Blankenheim

was the regent until his majority.

Philipp married twice and had several children, and his first wife Anna brought some territories in

Johann

getting Saarbrücken and Commercy. At Philip's majority in 1438 he began ruling in collaboration with his mother, and provisions were made for her future.

In the war 1387–1389

Rupert and then joining many other lords in the opposition against him 1405–07, and until his Rupert's death in 1410. He participated at the crowning of the successor, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, who elevated him, and made him a member of his council, and "Hauptmann" (leader) of the nobility in Luxembourg

. He was also a member of the council of the French king.

At the Council of Constance, Philipp supported King Sigismund against the policies of certain Popes, at the time of the Western Schism.

Marriage and issue

Firstly, Philipp married in 1385 with Anna of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (d. 11 October 1410), daughter of Count Kraft IV of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (de) (d. 1399).^[1] They had:

Philip (1388 – 19 March 1416).

Secondly, he married in 1412 with Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont (c. 1395 – 1456), who bore:

Philip II of Nassau-Weilburg (14 March 1418 – 19 March 1492), married Margaret of Loon-Heinsberg. He was the founder of the Nassau-Weilburg line (extinct 1912 on male side). he married secondly Veronika of Sayn-Wittgenstein.
Seigneurie of Commercy "Château-Bas" to Louis of Lorraine (1427 - 1445), marquis Pont-à-Mousson, son of King René of Anjou
(1409 - 1480), who inherited the property from his son.

Margarete (26 April 1426 – 5 May 1490), married in 1441 to Gerhard of
Rodemachern (Rodemack) (d. 1388?). They probably had about four daughters.^[2]

One daughter may have been from either marriage, probably with Anna:

Johannetta (d. 1 February 1481, Römhild), married on 22 June 1422 to Count George I of Henneberg (de).

Also, he had at least three illegitimate children:

Philipp of Nassau
Grete (d. 1437)
Heintzchen of Nassau

Ancestry

Ancestors of Philipp I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

16.

Agnes of Bavaria

23. Matilda of Habsburg

1. Philipp I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

24. Jean I of Saarbrücken-Commercy [fr]
son of Simon IV, Count of Saarbrücken

12. Simon of Saarbrücken-Commercy

25. Mahaut of Aspremont [fr]

6. John II, Count of Saarbrücken

26. Louis I of Savoy, Baron of Vaud

13. Margaret of Savoy

27. Jeanne de Montfort de Chambéon

3. Johanna of Saarbrücken

28. Theobald II, Count of Bar

14. Peter of Bar-Pierrefort

29. Jeanne of Toucy-Saint-Fargeau

7. Ghislette of Bar

30. Philipp I, Count of Vianden
or Hugues of Vienne, Sire of Longwy and Pagny

15. Johanna of Vianden

31. Maria of Brabant-Perwez
daughter of Godfrey of Leuven

References

Philipp I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg House of Nassau Born: 1368 Died: 2 July 1429
Preceded by John I	Count of Nassau-Weilburg 1371–1429	Succeeded by Philip II
Preceded by Johanna (as Countess of Saarbrücken, Dame of Commercy)	Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken 1381–1429	Succeeded by John II
	Seigneur of Commercy Château bas 1381–1429

[1] Genealogy of Kraft IV of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim

[2] Descendants of Gerhard of Rodemachern

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