Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg

Anna of Nassau- Dillenburg (* um 1441; † April 8, 1513 in Celle) was by marriage Duchess and regent of Brunswick- Lüneburg and last Countess of Katzenelenbogen.

Life

Anna was the eldest daughter of Count John IV of Nassau- Dillenburg and his wife Countess Maria (1424-1502), daughter of Count Johann II of Loon Heinberg.

In his first marriage, Anna married on September 25, 1467 in Celle Duke Otto II of Brunswick -Lüneburg with whom she had two sons:

• Wilhelm ( † 1470 )
• Henry I (1468-1532), Duke of Brunswick- Lüneburg

Otto died in 1471 and Anna's parents arranged together with the Estates of the county Katzenelenbogen marriage with the already very old Count Philip I of Katzenelenbogen that Anna was married on January 24, 1474. The parents of Anna negotiated it for political interest, a heritage had emerged from the marriage, would the seizure of the county Katzenelenbogen to the House of Hesse can be avoided. Beginning in 1474, the priest John of Bornich was accused of Countess Anna handed a cup of poisoned wine on behalf of the Hessian house. Anna was just suffering from a fever and recover quickly. 1479 fell Katzenelenbogen after the death of Count Philipp Heinrich of Hesse, who was married to a daughter of Philip 's first marriage.

Philip had assigned his second wife a widow seat rule Burgschwalbach with all agreements. Your dowry, she contested from their Wittumseinkünften as Duchess of Brunswick, the Office Luechow, they leased and thereby knew enforce against her former father in law. Later she returned to Celle and took care of her son, whom she had to leave after her second marriage in the custody of his parents, and their grandchildren. After the death of Duke Frederick of Brunswick in 1478, she became regent for her son until 1486 Heinrich. Between 1471 and 1473 caused the expand the Countess Anna Graf castle in Lüchow to the castle, which served as her widow's residence from 1496 to 1504. She is the founder of the Hospital of St. Anne in Celle.