Adelaide of Katzenelnbogen

Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen, (died Mainz, 22 February 1288) was a countess from the House of Katzenelnbogen and, by marriage, countess of Nassau. She is a direct ancestor of the Walramiam branch of the House of Nassau and of the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg. Biography Adelheid was the daughter of Count Diether IV of Katzenelnbogen and Hildegunde. She married before 1250 to Count Walram II of Nassau ( – 24 January 1276). On 16 December 1255, her spouse divided the county of Nassau with his younger brother Otto I, on which occasion Walram obtained the area south of the river Lahn, containing Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg and Bleidenstadt. From this union came the following children: Diether ( – Trier, 23 November 1307), was Archbishop of Trier 1300-1307. Adolf ( – Göllheim, 2 July 1298), succeeded his father as count of Nassau, was King of Germany 1292-1298. Richardis (died 28 July 1311), was a nun in the St. Clara monastery in Mainz and later in Klarenthal Abbey near Wiesbaden. Matilda (died young). Imagina (died before 1276), may have married Frederick of Lichtenberg.