Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg

Imagina of Limburg, also Imagina of Isenburg -Limburg ( * 1255 probably in Limburg an der Lahn, † September 29, 1318 in the monastery Klarenthal in Wiesbaden) was a Roman - German Queen as the wife of King Adolf of Nassau.

Life

Her father was out of the house I. Gerlach Limburg, a side line of the Lords of Isenburg. Her mother was Imagina Blieskastel.

Around 1270 she married Count Adolf of Nassau from the walramischen line of the House of Nassau. Their main residences were the Idstein Castle and Burg Sonnenberg. After the election of Adolf in 1292 to the German king they resided mainly on the imperial castle Achalm if they did not accompany her husband on his travels.

After her husband's death at the Battle of Göllheim she left on the battlefield build the early Gothic "King Cross". In 1309, she experienced the transfer of her husband's corpse from the monastery Rosenthal in the Speyer Cathedral. She took off her widow's residence initially on the Weilburg and moved him later in the monastery Klarenthal, where her daughter Adelheid presided as abbess. In Klarenthal monastery Imagina died and was buried there.

Progeny

From her marriage to Adolf of Nassau taken from at least eight children:

• Heinrich ( † young)
• Imagina († young)
• Ruprecht VI. ( * Before 1280, † November 2, 1304 ), Count of Nassau
• Mechthild (* 1280, † 1323), ∞ Rudolf Stammler the
• Gerlach I ( * 1288, † January 7, 1361 ), Count of Nassau
• Adolf ( * 1292, † 1294 )
• Adelheid († 1338 ), 1311-1338 Abbess of Klarenthal
• Walram III. (* 1294, † May 15, 1324 ), Count of Nassau -Wiesbaden