Emicho I, Count of Nassau-Hadamar
Emich I of Nassau, also Emicho, (* in the 13th century, † June 7, 1334 ), first detected in 1289, was the second son of Count Otto I of Nassau and his wife Elisabeth of Leiningen- Landeck ( † about 1303 ), daughter of Count Emich IV of Leiningen- Landeck. Emich was the founder of the older line of Nassau- Hadamar and a cousin of King Adolf of Nassau. He and his brother Henry fought in the battle of knights in Göllheim on July 2, 1298 at the Adolphus page.
Count of Nassau - Hadamar
After the death of his father, the founder of the Ottonian line of the House of Nassau, in 1290 the county was divided in 1303 after a long dispute among his three surviving sons. The eldest, Henry († 1343 ), was awarded Nassau-Siegen with the Ginsburg and the reign of the Westerwald, and Johann of Nassau- Dillenburg received with Herborn, Haiger and Beilstein. Emich got Nassau Hadamar Hadamar with which Esterau, the Nassau share of rule Driedorf and the Court of Castellar, the Ottonian shares in Dausenau and EMS as well as some free float.
Emichs residence was initially the " Junker castle " in Driedorf, and in 1305 he obtained from the King Albrecht I granted the city rights to the castle upstream location Driedorf. However, the possession of Driedorf was controversial because it was a fief of the country county of Hesse and was discharged the 1230-1333 repeated fracturing heavy Dernbacher feud between the Landgrave and the House of Nassau. Even in 1290 it was the Lords of grasping stone as co-owners of Driedorf succeeded with the help of Hesse, to force Henry and Emich of Nassau for demolition of two castles in Driedorf; However, this closed in Wetzlar contract sealed and the foreseeable end of Greifensteiner resistance against the Nassau expansion in the eastern Westerwald. Only in 1316 could Emich acquire the share of Greifensteiner to Driedorf for 250 marks.
Mortgage possession in Franconia
In 1299 Emich acquired considerable property in the Nuremberg area, as King Albert I and his wife Anna, daughter of the Nuremberg Castle Count Friedrich III. , The castle Kammerstein, Schwabach, Altdorf, and the castle and the town Kornburg pledged. Emich was Schwabach Wall, ditch and palisade mount and gave the place in 1303 market rights. ( These possessions were left in 1348 by Charles IV Emichs sons Johann and Emich II as a hereditary fief, but already sold in 1364 by Johann at the Nuremberg Hohenzollern, the relatives of Emichs wife Anna. )
Hadamar
On December 18, 1320 Emich bought the Musterhof of the Cistercian monastery of Eberbach on the left bank of the Elbbachs towards the settlement Hadamar with extensive lands. He left the farm to Wasserburg Hadamar with a south of the castle lying farmyard expand and moved his residence there. 1324, Emperor Louis IV Emichs places Hadamar and Ems Frankfurt city law. Then Emich fortified the castle was built around his part of Hadamar, including the castle, with ramparts and moat.
The change his residence to Hadamar was probably the better securing of Emichs interests in the county Diez and the continuous acquisition of property and rights of the declining house Diez. Since 1317 Emich held the guardianship of Count Gottfried von Diez ( 1303-1348 ), whose bad Finanzgebahren ushered in the decline of his county. In the negotiations for the marriage of his daughter Jutta in 1324 with Gerhard VI. von Diez (1317-1343), the son of Gerhard V. Diez, Emich became extended guardianship rights over the county Diez, who was already greatly indebted to the Nassau Count. When the guardianship of Gottfried von Diez was terminated after 15 years by a treaty in 1332, the Diezer transferred the ducal rights over Hadamar and a pledge shaft over the village Dehrn to Emich. On March 28, 1337 pledged Gottfried and Gerhard von Diez also the only four years earlier redeemed by the Merenbergern Office Castellar, the Vierzentische Office, for 1450 Mark Limburg money to Emichs son Johann.
Two months before his death, on April 4, 1334 Emich wore the castle and the courtyard to Hadamar on the Archbishop Baldwin of Trier fief and received it back from this.
Mountain shelf
On February 26, 1298 pledged King Adolf of Nassau his cousins Henry and Emich and their brothers for 1000 Mark Cologne pennies (where three farthings are to be expected as a penny ) the mine Ratzenscheid at Wilnsdorf the winning country and the other pits of their territory, where silver was won. Thus, the mountain shelf of the Counts of Nassau was founded.
The legacy of John
As Emichs brother Johann had fallen as main hissing - Nassau captain on August 10, 1328 in Wetzlar in the final and decisive battle of the Dernbacher feud, Emich renounced his share of his inheritance in favor of his elder brother Henry.
Marriage and issue
Emich married before 1297 Anna ( † ca 1357 ), daughter of Viscount Frederick III. of Nuremberg, and his second wife Helena, daughter of the Saxon Duke Albrecht I.
Emich died on 7 June 1334. His widow received after a comparison with her son John in 1336 as a jointure the imperial castle Kammerstein and more goods in Franconia. Also you approved Johann considerable income in Natural Lauren castle, Dausenau, Hadamar, and Nentershausen in the Bailiwick Weidenhahn, as well as farms and land in Hadamar ( Schnepf houses the farm and the farm Rödchen ) Zeuzheim and Heftrich. By 1349 she had her widow's residence in Hadamar, then at the castle stone chamber, where she died in 1355-1357.
Emich and Anna had eight children known by name:
- Anna († probably before 1329 ), ∞ before 1322 Kuno ( I.) of Falkenstein
- Jutta ( † after 1359 ), ∞ before 1324 Count Gerhard VI. Diez (X 1343 )
- Johann ( † before January 20, 1365 ), 1334-1365, Count of Nassau- Hadamar
- Emich II († 1359 ), 1328 and 1336 canons in Mainz, 1337-1359 co-ruler of Nassau- Hadamar
- Agnes / Nese, † as a nun in the convent of Altenberg near Wetzlar
- Helena, † as a nun in the convent of Altenberg
- Margaret, ∞ before 1349 Count NN Hohenberg
- Margaretha († 1343 ), a nun in the convent of St. Clare in Nuremberg