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  1. Adolf was the reigning count of a small German state. He was born about 1255 and was the son of Walram II, Count of Nassau and Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen. [3] Adolf’s brother was Diether of Nassau, who was appointed Archbishop of Trier in 1300. Adolf was married in 1270 to Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg (died after 1313) and they had eight children.

  2. The House of Nassau-Weilburg, a branch of the House of Nassau, ruled a division of the County of Nassau, which was a state in what is now Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1344 to 1806. On 17 July 1806, upon the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the principalities of Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg both joined the ...

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  4. The exception was Adolf, King of the Romans (c. 1255 ... In 1329, under Adolf's son Gerlach I of Nassau-Weilburg the House of Nassau and thereby, Wiesbaden, ...

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  5. Walramian Nassau. Walram II’s son, Adolf of Nassau, was the German king from 1292 to 1298. Adolf’s descendants, however, partitioned their lands, and by the late 18th century the Walramian inheritance was divided between the Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Usingen branches. In 1801 Napoleonic France acquired the Walramians’ lands west of the ...

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  6. The story that Weilburg Palace and Palace Garden tell its visitors could almost be a fairytale: The young count of a dwarf state on the Lahn, John Ernest zu Nassau-Weilburg (1664-1719), arrives at the magnificent court of the French Sun King Louis XIV in Versailles on his cavalier tour – the educational trip for young men of noble status.

  7. king (1292-1298), Germany. Adolf (born c. 1250—died July 2, 1298, Göllheim, near Worms [Germany]) was a German king from May 5, 1292, to June 23, 1298, when he was deposed in favour of his Habsburg opponent, Albert I. Adolf, who was count of Nassau from 1277 and a mercenary soldier of repute, was chosen king at Frankfurt by the German ...

  8. Sep 3, 2014 · Adolph of Nassau was born around 1255, the heir to Walram II and his wife Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen. Adolph was well educated, even for his time, as he was fluent in three languages: German, French, and Latin. This was a rarity in the 13th century, and gave him an extra degree of respect and worldliness. In 1270, Adolph was married to Imagina ...

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