Philip I, Count of Katzenelnbogen
Philip I of Katzenelenbogen, called the Elder ( * 1402, † 1479 ) was Count of Katzenelenbogen 1444 to 1479, and the last male descendant of the Counts of Katzenelenbogen ( his two sons died before him).
Ethnicity and marriages
His parents were John IV of Katzenelenbogen (younger line) and Anne of Katzenelenbogen (older line), which together resulted in the two lines of the family in 1402 again.
Philip I married Anna of Württemberg (1408-1471), daughter of Eberhard IV of Württemberg, called the Younger, on 24 February 1422 in Darmstadt. 1456 Philip I procured the Pope a divorce from bed and board.
In his second marriage he was married from 1474 with Anna of Nassau.
Progeny
Children
- Philip the Younger ( * 1427, † February 27, 1453 ), married in 1450 Ottilie von Nassau. From this connection was 1453, the daughter of Ottilie Katzenelenbogen forth.
- Eberhard († 1456 ), a canon of Cologne was stabbed in Bruges (Flanders).
- Anna (* September 5, 1443, † February 16, 1494 ), married in 1458 the Landgrave Henry III. of Hesse ( October 15, 1441 - January 13, 1483 ). From this connection was William III. forth. This was the last male descendant of the Hessian line.
Work
Even before he took office, he made 1433/34 a trip to the Holy Land. About this trip he let make towards the end of his life a travelogue.
Philip I in 1444 prompted the major remodeling of the collegiate church of St. Goar. 1449 Philip I bought the Prüm abbot John the rights of the abbey of St. Goar from. 1470 transfers to his son Philip I. Henry III. of Hesse, the top county with its headquarters in Darmstadt.
In a feud with Count Gerhard II von Sayn Philip leaves several villages and the central church of the parish in the Westerwald Höhn destroy.
Philip's sons Eberhardt and Philip the Younger died before his death, so that Philip the Elder died without male offspring. Therefore, the county Katzenelenbogen fell in 1479 to the rural county of Hesse, and although Philip's son Henry III. , Landgrave of Hesse in Marburg.