John II, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

John II of Nassau- Dillenburg (* 1365, † May 1443 in Dillenburg ) ( called with the hood, Haubner, the Elder) was Count of Nassau- Dillenburg. He was a son of Count John I of Nassau and his wife, Margarethe von der Mark.

Life

Like his father, Johann very warlike and involved in numerous feuds with the Landgrave of Hesse and the Electorate of Trier. With his brothers Adolf, Johann III. and Engelbert but he knew how, and so it came in 1409 to a contract of inheritance between them. As 1416 came the succession, the brothers divided the government.

As 1420 also the brother Adolf died without heirs, Johann received the area around Dillenburg and Hadamar. After the death of John III. in 1430 there was a new division of the administration by John II was the German territories and Engelbert Dutch. Already in 1417 Engelbert inherited the county of Vianden. 1420 was about the legacy of Adolf half the county Diez to the brothers.

Claims to Kleve and the county of Mark, they gave in 1424 on a payment of 12,000 gold florins paid Adolf of Cleves. To 1429, the Counts of Virneburg paid 21,000 gold florins to the brothers to resign their claims to rule Ravenstein with Herpen and Uden.

At the end of his life, Johann left the administration of the country the sons Engelberts.

Family

John remained unmarried all his life, but not without children. With Adelheid he had a daughter and a son. The daughter Adelheid in 1438 went into the pin Keppel. His son Tilmann " Bastard of Nassau " in 1461 got the Burglehen Wall rock.