This document provides biographical information about Hans Baldung Grien, a 15th century German artist considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer. It also contains details about Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg, including her family origins, first marriage to Count Philip I of Katzenelnbogen, and second marriage to Landgrave Henry III of Hesse. The document discusses the political context of Anna's marriages and includes extracts from historical records relating to her dowries and titles.

1. the artist
Hans Baldung Grien or Grün[1]
(c. 1484 –September 1545) was a German
artist in painting and printmaking who was considered the most gifted student
of Albrecht Dürer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Baldung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottilie_of_Katzenelnbogen
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2. HUSBAND OF ANNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_I,_Margrave_of_Baden-Baden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_of_Nassau-Dillenburg -
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3. Head of City Archives Wiesbaden
Annals of Nassauische 118, 2007 excerpts:
Anna came from the Ottonian line of the Counts of Nassau, a branch with residences in
Siegen, Hadamar, and Dillenburg, who had been in the country division of 1255 areas
north of the Lahn. In the 14th century Otto II of Nassau-Dillenburg had placed by his
marriage with Adelaide of Vianden in Luxembourg today the basis for the subsequent

4. acquisition of the county of the same name, which eventually Anna's grandfather
Engelbert I fell to the heir, as the last Countess of Vianden died childless was. Through
its marriage with Joan of Polans 1403 rule Breda in Brabant was added to the property.
Anna's father Johann IV could unite 1450-1472 the dill burg with the Dutch possession;
his full title was Count of Nassau, Vianden and Diez, Lord of Breda.
Nochaus another reason Anna's family of origin was rooted in the Burgundian
Netherlands room: Count Johann held a wicdhtige position at the court of Philip the Good
of Burgundy; 1443 calls him the mighty duke and his council treasurer. Anna's mother
came from the Burgundian-Lower Rhine area of influence: She was Countess of Loon
Heinberg. She brought more Lower Rhine possessions in a marriage. Anna's parents were
married in February 1440, Anna was her oldest daughter. Where and when Anna saw the
light of the world, we do not know. Some reasons to believe that she was born in late
1440 or 1441. She had at least five siblings: Johanna, Adriane, Engelbert II and Johann
V, the 1444, 1449, 1451, 1455 were born, and a sister Ottilie, whose date of birth is not
known. Birthplace of Adriana, Engelbert and John, as perhaps also the other siblings, was
the Brabant Breda, in addition to Dillenburg probably the most important residence of
Anna's parents. Here they later found their final resting place. There were also at least
two non- or pre-marital relations of Anna's father entsprossenene children, the customs of
the time ensprechend, as bastards bezeichenet and were jointly supplied at court: John
and Adrian bastards of Nassau.
Her second marriage with the 1402-born Count Philipp von Katzenelnbogen had been
arranged by Anna's parents, composed of Katzenelnbogen Estates. Had emerged from the
connection of the already very old Count Philip with verwirweten Duchess a son, would
of any subsequent seizure of the land county Hessen, the Landgrave Henry III of Hesse
had his inheritance reasoning in the marriage of Philip's daughter Anna, can be avoided.
This would all in the interest of the Counts of Nassau.
The Eheberedung said that Anna should get as Wittum income in interest and natural
history of 1600 florins a year. As a widow seat pointed Count Philip his bride
Burgschwalbach to the associated rule and all rights of use; of this rule to be derived
rights revenue, about from court fines and other gradients, should not be counted against
their other income. As dowry undertook the Count, her jäührlich to instruct 200 guilders,
which they could use as their salvation, by his death at will. Anna should bring in return
the Earl a dowry of 400 florins a year into the marriage. This dowry consisted of income
from Annas Brunswick Wittum, the Office Lüchow they leased annually for a sum of 666
guilders. In this context, something like a strong will of the princess is first noticeable:
Anna's father, Duke Frederick as namely the Pious and his council against the tenant of
its choice objected because they were with him in feud, Anna leaned to the wish of the
Duke not, but continued in respect of the lease.
When Anna left Celle end in 1473 and the duchy of Brunswick, she had her five year old
son in the care of her father and her sister Margarethe as the only female relatives. This
was common for the children of a royal widow from her first marriage, and even legally
binding. Finally, Henry was the only heir to the Duchy. What feelings they moved here,
inevitably eludes our knowledge. Perhaps the great care that, decades later, her
grandchildren brought against the Duchess, as read from their Hofrechnungen, something
to do with this early farewell and her guilt over the son. As the young Duke witnessed his

5. mother's departure, we do not know. The Charkater Duke Henry, who lived as a man on
foot lavish and is described in the reports of his sons as irascible and violent, could have
its roots in this early loss.
Soon after her marriage to Count Philip of Katzenelnbogen on January 24, 1474 Anna
was apparently at the mercy of a political intrigue of her father. One of the multiple
murder accused priest, John of Bornich, testified at the instigation close confidant of the
Landgrave of Hesse in January 1474, allegedly before the marriage, during a
concelebrated by him in the chapel of Katzenelnbogen Rheinstein rock worship Anna a
cup of poisoned wine enough to have. Under interrogation, accused John of Bornich
especially Hans von Dörnberg, the steward of the Hessian Landgrave. The country was
the county of Hesse instance, would fall on the home Katzelnbogen, and thus also
beneficiary of Philip heirless death and of premature death of the Duchess.
Anna noticed that the wine was cloudy, whereupon Johann answer tete, which might
have inflicted birds or worms, or it might have been cut ginger into the cup. After Anna
had drunk of the wine, was ill; apparently they had been poisoned. What seems certain is
only that they suffered from a fever and recovered quickly. The attending doctor found
no signs of poisoning.
Copy: State Archive Marburg Samtarchiv, drawer 82, 85. return note from the 15th
century: Such is the verbuntsbrief myner men of Hesse and Katzenellenbogen, the holy
ee berurende. With the seals (Hessian copy); State Archive Marburg Samtarchiv. With
seals (katzenellenbogisches copy).
Transcript: State Archive Marburg Kopiar 25, fol. . 49 ff (early 16th century); Central
State Archive Wiesbaden Abt. 171, C 1034 fol. 307 ff (16th century). . Hauptstaatsarchiv
Wiesbaden Abt 170, copies of documents (18th century); Ziegenhainer Repertory VI, fol.
51st
Calendar entry. Demandt, Reg Katzenelnbogen, S. 1233-1235 No. 4417..
Landgrave Ludwig of Hesse and Count Philipp von Katzenelnbogen close in considering
the long friendship that has prevailed between them and their parents so far, to their
further consolidation following Eheberedung between their children: Landgraf Heinrich
of Hesse, Landgrave Ludwig's son, to the Countess Anna of Katzenelnbogen, Count
Philip's daughter, and no other marriage, provided they remain alive. The same promises
Count Philipp vice versa for his daughter Anna. If this is turned 12 years old, she should
be married according to the custom of the Church with Landgraf Heinrich by a priest.
Count Philipp promises with the consent of his son Philip, his daughter a dowry of
36,000 fl. FrWr. mitzugeben, namely, when Anna is sent to the marriage nuptials, 16,000
fl., while the remaining 20,000 fl. Philipps her to be paid within one year by the young

6. Count Philipp after the death of Count. If Count Philip dies before the nuptials, the
16,000 fl. Dowry should be handed in within a year Driedorf to the Landgrave. Count
Philipp committed to securitize the remaining 20,000 fl. Of his daughter after the nuptials
so and to guarantee that it is safe the money even after his death and they can get within a
year there then. Has Anna with the Landgrave no children, this is after the death of
Anna's 36,000 fl own life sentence. after his death it shall revert to the young Count
Philipp. Do they have children, the 36,000 fl. There shall fall where they belong
according to the custom and tradition of the state of Hesse. Landgraf Ludwig and his son
Heinrich undertake, the dowry ensure after the nuptials so that the counts of
Katzenelnbogen in the event that he should fall, knowing who to which cities to keep
them after Landgrave Henry's death. The nuptials will take place next May over 11 years.
If Count Philipp his daughter ends at Landgraf Heinrich, they must equip so, as befits a
princess with clothes, jewels and silver work.
To nuptials the Landgrave Anna to the locks casting and Biedenkopf, castles and cities,
with all the accessories of people, villages, duties, pensions, interest and gradients,
outrages, fines, courts, woods, fields, waters, pastures, wild Bannen and fisheries as
Wittume instruct them so that Anna's death for life holds unpledged and straight sets by
Landgrave Henry. After her death, both locks will revert to the Hessian princes. This
Wittum you must certify to the Landgrave nuptials in the usual manner, and Anna is to
assure them a document that both locks come after her death back in the state of Hesse,
whereupon they must also all officers, which she uses there commit. If parts of the two
locks are fief, the Landgrave have to obtain the approval by the feudal lords to this
Wittumsverschreibung. Anna is belonging to two locks people not higher than
herkommensgemäß appreciate and complain, but they get in their tradition and protect.
After the nuptials Landgraf Heinrich is giving his wife a dowry, as befits him as a prince.
After the death of Landgrave Henry his heirs Anna are in undisturbed possession of their
Wittums, her dowry and whatever else they receive from their parents, protect and
otherwise allow anyone to harm it. Anna on the other hand should be satisfied with
Wittum and dowry and make no further claims to the princes of Hessen. With the debt
that makes the Landgrave in his lifetime or after his death leaves behind, it has nothing to
do. You may not harm their castles from the reign Hesse, these are rather the Landgrave
open in an emergency. Are you some citizens or sub Assen disobedient, the Landgrave
must stop to obedience. Is this without success, Anna can seize the disobedient, but
without prejudice to the rights of the Hessian rule. What Anna brings to the jewels or
what is given to her and after Landgrave Henry finds to household goods in two castles
death, her remains, but can you leave the household after her death in both castles.
Anna and Henry have on Anna's paternal and maternal inheritance, it is mortgage shank
or betting shaft, and all the earth, who have the counts of Katznelnbogen currently or win
yet, will provide a complete, notarized and sealed waiver, even before the nuptials, and
be satisfied. with 36,000 fl, unless that the counts of Katzenelnbogen extinct and is not
born of the County of Katzenelnbogen male heir longer there. For this case, Anna
reserves its rights to the county. If Count Philip is his daughter still go to something, it
should also remain their.
Will Anna after the death of any married Landgrave Henry again, the Landgrave can
replace the locks and casting Biedenkopf with the amount that has been awarded the
Landgrave Heinrich for dowry. Did she Landgrave Heinrich children, is to fall back on

7. the state of Hesse after her death this money; she has no children with him, it falls to the
Counts of Katzenelnbogen.
The Landgrave Ludwig and Heinrich von Hessen and the Count Philip Elder and D. J. of
Katzenelnbogen promise with a handshake under oath to keep all these points inviolable
and nothing to do about it or to cause. On the breach of this promise of marriage is a fine
of 20,000 fl., For which the Landgrave their locks Blankenstein and church grove and the
Count put their locks Darmstadt and clean home for a pledge. If a party does not comply
this marriage vows, which used locks the other party expire until the marriage is
consummated or 20,000 fl. Have been paid. Then the officers, guards, porters, citizens
and inhabitants of the said locks should be required. With the marriage consummation,
these mortgage settlement goes out. In future no bailiff, sheriff, waiter, watchman, porter
or keeper more may be used in these locks, which has not been committed to this
agreement, he shall renew the prescription under his own seal.
Seal of the exhibitors and the Count Johann of goats grove and Diether von Isenburg-
Büdingen.
D. 1446 uff the maentag by our love frauwen day visitacionis Marie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_IV,_Count_of_Katzenelnbogen
Johann IV, Count of Katzenelnbogen (died 1444) was one of the last
member of the younger line of the Hessian House of Katzenelnbogen. He
ruled the reunited County of Katzenelnbogen.
His father was Diether VIII, a count of Katzenelnbogen from the younger line
of the House of Katzenelnbogen, and ruled mainly in Upper Katzenelnbogen.
Johann's mother was Elisabeth, a daughter of Adolph I of Nassau-Wiesbaden
(1307–1370).
In 1385, Johann IV married Anna of Katzenelnbogen, a distant cousin from
the older line of Katzenelnbogen, and they had at least one son: Philipp
I (1402–1479). Philipp I was the last male member of the House of
Katzenelnbogen. He had two sons: Philipp II (1427–1453) and Eberhard (d.
1456), however, they both predeceased him. After Philipp I's death, his
daughter Anna inherited the County, including Dornberg Castle, and so it fell
to her husband, Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_I,_Count_of_Katzenelnbogen

8. Philipp I of Katzenelnbogen (1402–1479), also known "Philipp the Elder"
was Count ofKatzenelnbogen from 1444 to 1479 and was the last male
descendant of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen (his two sons died before him).
His parents wereJohann IV, Count of Katzenelnbogen (younger line) and
Anne of Katzenelnbogen (older line), who merged the two lines of the family
back together in 1402.
Marriage and issue[edit]
Philip married on 24 February 1422 in Darmstadt with Anna of Württemberg
(1408–1471), daughter of Eberhard IV "the Younger" of Württemberg. In
1456, he obtained from the Pope adivorce from bed-and-board. In 1474 Philip
married Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg.
Philipp had three children with his first wife:
Philipp the Younger (* 1427; † 27 February 1453), married in 1450 Ottilie of Nassau. In
1453 they had a daughter Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen.
Eberhard († 1456), canon of Cologne, was stabbed in Bruges (Flanders).
Anna (* 5 September 1443; † 16 February 1494), married in 1458 margrave Henry III of
Hesse (15 October 1441 — 13 January 1483). In 1471, they had a son William III, who
was the last male descendant of this line of the House of Hesse.
Count Philipp of the Elder Katzenelnbogen
Count Philip the Elder
1402 Philipp was born
1410 (8) Philip receives shoes, board and a red cap (mutsche) of Cologne and a gray coat
(6079)
1422 (20) Philip married the 14 year-old Anna of Württemberg on 24/2/1422 at carnival
with a splendid courtyard party in Darmstadt.
1426 Philip's wife Anna issued an order to pay the above graf union Hunchback sheep.
(6128)

9. 1427 (25) in alliance with Nassau-Saarbrücken and Trier makes Philip for the first time
policy. His (19 year old) wife Anna gives birth to son Philip the Younger.
1428 (26) Philipp riding the gray stallion to Cologne and enters his service at Archbishop
Dietrich von Moers. (6087) The Scherer to Dornsberg Philipp connects the fingers.
(6151.2)
1431 (29) Return of Philip of Cologne
1432 (30) he gladly returns in the inns "Zum Roten Löwen", "For Rade" and "For
Helmets" in St. Goar. (6080.11). He can buy the Virgin and maids silken hair bands.
(6080.12)
1433 (31) Philipp holds in Reichenberg (6080.16). He says goodbye to his wife and son
on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. - He is beaten there by Bernhard Kreiss knighted. He
then proposes, inter alia, Daniel Mudersbach knighted. (3637)
1434 (32) Philipp versa healthy back despite shipwreck. However, his first path does not
lead him to his wife. - This goes against him by Rhine rock (6152.2) Countess Anna and
Countess Anna travel with Philipp Braunfels..
1435 (33) Young Count Philip is sick, a potion of sugar, ginger and Canele (Cinnamon)
is mixed, as the times it does hurt waiting (6081) he receives 6 lined Hudde (hats) and a
pair hentschuwe (gloves). (6081.12)
1436 (34) In the presence of the Count's chapel Earl Daniels Mudersbach daughter sleeps
with. A real wedding - Philipp? jus primae nocte?
Count Philip the Younger of Katzenelnbogen
1437 (35) his (29 year old) wife Anna is with Eberhard again in childbirth.
1444 (42) his father dies. Philipp is Graf.
1445 (43) Philipp expenditure on wine, inter alia, maid to Clara, a maid of honor to
Cologne and Liese, are wine gifts to the archbishops of Cologne and Trier and is a dance
in the restaurant "Zum sword" in St. Goar.
1446 Anna (38 years old) feels slandered by their light-berger waiter to operate black art.
Philip refuses to even ask his wife to and sends his son to Lichtenberg. (4425)

10. 1451 (41) Philip sends his son two hawks. (6095.35)
1452 (42) Henry of Alsfeld is k. Clerk, who must be gewärtig writing at any time and
expect. (4729)
1454 Philipp wearing red knee boots manufactured by Master Bartholomew to Mainz
(6096.137)
1455 (53) Philipp must learn that Kaiser Friedrich his demise with an award of st. Goar
duty verpflant.
1456 (54) Philipp rides with Daniel Mudersbach from Palatine in Bacharach to Aachen.
(4861) Philipp obtained by Pope Calixtus III, the separation from his wife Anna because
of malicious attacks against his person and the divorce from bed and board. (4914)
1457 (55) Philipp pays his (49-year-old) woman for two years only 450 instead of 500
guilders to each Frankfurter Messe. (6377)
1458 (56) Philip celebrates with his friends (Kuno von Reichenberg, Otto Breder,
Heinrich Wolf, Philipp Rode) the Faßnacht to Koblenz with jump and dance.
- Barholomäus of Eten is the personal physician of Philip (5019)
1465 Philip is in Cologne (5359)
1471 dies his wife Anna
1473 champion Klaus Graf is the physician of Philip of Katzenelnbogen-Diez (5748)
1474 (72) Philip married Anna of Nassau (5758)
1478 Anna (Nassau) holds on with 36 people in Hadamar. Including her brother Mark
Graf .... and Countess Anna von Katzenelnbogen. Later, with 40 people accompanied
them fed with Countess Anna of Katzenelnbogen (5981)
1479 (77) Philip dies

11. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Blason_Eberhard_VI_de_Katznell
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Blason Eberhard VI de Katznellenbogen
http://www.regionalgeschichte.net/bibliothek/texte/geschichte-mittelrhein/die-grafen-
von-katzenelnbogen.html
The first Edelfreien and later Counts of Katzenelnbogen led the "Cat" as a red lion in
your coat of arms.

12. The Edelfreien of Katzenelnbogen who called themselves since 1138 following its castle
built around 1095 Katzenelnbogen are attested in the St. Goar since the late 11th century
as Untervögte the Counts of Arnstein. The Arnstein held the bailiwick over the
possession of the abbey of Prüm. How influential the family was already shown by the
fact that Henry II. Of Katzenelnbogen († 1160) by King Konrad III. as count (comes) was
raised to the imperial counts. Your original possession in Kraichgau they forfeit, but they
manage along with the Count of Nassau in 1160 to win the county on the Einrich. As the
Arnstein became extinct in 1185, entered the Katzenelnbogen in St. Goar in the right
position and they managed to quickly expand the ownership of the Rhine to territorial
sovereignty.
Members of the family took an influential positions, such as bishops in Osnabrück and
Münster or as a counselor and "officials" of several kings. Seven members of the Graf
house undertook journeys to the Orient or participated in Crusades.
Rhine Castle Rock
To secure their dominions arose after 1245 instead of an earlier castle in the valley of the
Rhine rock fortress on St. Goar. Rhine rock was in the 13th century was known as a
hotbed of art and culture, the court festivals celebrated there were widely praised. 1276
acquired the Graf house the isenburgische "Hausen apud sanctum Goarem" that is
mentioned since 1313 St.Goarshausen and in the 14th century by the construction of two
castles, Burg Reichenberg in Hasenbachtal and Burg Katz (Neukatzenelnbogen)
reinforced the fortifications with Rhine rock.
In 1260, the county was divided into two areas, in a Obergrafschaft (younger line) with
Darmstadt, clean home, Lichtenberg, Auerbach, forcing mountain, Dornsberg and
Rüsselsheim and in a lower county (older line) with the reference locations

13. Katzenelnbogen, Hohenstein, Braubach, Reichenberg , Burgschwalbach, New
Katzenelnbogen and Rhine rock / St. Goar. About the marriage of Countess Anna (elder
line) with Count John IV. (Younger line) were both lines reunited in 1402. Great wealth,
the Earls of Katzeneinbogen came by a brisk trade policy and the acquisition of several
inches sites on the Rhine, such as. Gernsheim, Mainz, Kaub, St. Goar, Boppard,
Oberlahnstein, Linz, Bonn and Dusseldorf.
The county was organizationally well positioned. Three Country writings formed the
infrastructure with 24 winery districts. Added to this was the customs paperwork St.
Goar. 16 castles, Braubach, Schwalbach, Katzenelnbogen, Hohenstein, Reichenberg,
Reinfelsdorf, New Katzenelnbogen, Rüsselsheim, Stadecken, Dornsberg, Darmstadt
Clean Home Lichtenberg, Rodensteinstrasse, forcing mountain and Auerbach were in
sole possession of the Graf house and secured possession and rights. How rich and
powerful was the Graf house, shows, among other things the fact that the Rhenish
archbishops were often in debt to them.
In 1453 Philipp Graf took the Elder of Katzenelnbogen the financial collapse of the Lords
of Eppstein to acquire parts of the county Diez and the rule of Eppstein. To after the
death of his sons and Philipp Eberhard the Younger to prevent the devolution of the
region of the empire to the empire, rendered Count Philip Elder with the consent of the
King County to the husband of his only daughter. Anna of Katzenelnbogen was with
Landgraf Heinrich III. of Hesse married and so the county went to the death of the last
Katzenelnbogeners on July 28, 1479 to the Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg. With this
inheritance the house Hesse established his political and economic advancement.
The County of Katzenelnbogen (named after Chatti Melibokus) was
an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed between 1095 and
1479, when it was inherited by the Landgraves of Hesse.

14. Katzenelnbogen Castle
The estate comprised two separate territories. The main parts were the
original Untergrafschaft ("lower county") with its capital atKatzenelnbogen in
the Middle Rhinearea and the Obergrafschaft ("upper county") south of
the Main River around Darmstadt, predecessor of the Landgraviate of Hesse-
Darmstadt.
History[edit]
One Diether I of Katzenelnbogen (circa 1065–95), then serving
as Vogt of Prüm Abbey, was first mentioned about 1070 in a deed issued by
Archbishop Anno II of Cologne. From 1094 onwards, Diether and his son
Henry I built KatzenelnbogenCastle in the Taunus mountain range; in 1138,
King Conrad III of Germany vested his grandson Henry II with the comital title,
when the Kraichgau was bequested to him. The counts also builtBurg
Rheinfels and Auerbach Castle in the 13th century and finished Burg Katz in
1371, they rebuilt the Marksburg purchased from the Lords of Eppstein and
acquired highly lucrative customs rights on the Rhine River. In almost four
centuries, the county grew bit by bit, from the Neckar to the Moselle Rivers.

15. The counts founded many cities, and for centuries or decades, they owned
others, such as Offenbach, Gießen, Diez andLimburg. They also contributed
to the enlargement of Eberbach Abbey, which became their family tomb in the
14th century. After the early death of Count Philipp's only son in 1453, he
called himself Count of Katzenelnbogen-Diez. When Philipp died in 1479, the
male line of the Katzenelnbogens became extinct. TheObergrafschaft was
passed to the Landgraves of Hesse by virtue of the 1458 marriage of Henry III
of Upper Hesse to Count Philipp's daughter Anna of Katzenelnbogen.
Thereafter, the Landgraves of Hesse added to their title "Count of
Katzenelnbogen".
History of wine[edit]
In 1435, Count John IV of Katzenelnbogen was building his last castle
in Rüsselsheim, where he ordered the famous Riesling variety should be
grown. This is the first documentation of the grape in history. Hundreds of
vineyards were documented, many of which still exist: among them the
famous rock Loreley documented in 1395.
n 1435, Count John IV of Katzenelnbogen was building his last castle
in Rüsselsheim, where he ordered the famous Riesling variety should be
grown. This is the first documentation of the grape in history. Hundreds of
vineyards were documented, many of which still exist: among them the
famous rock Loreley documented in 1395.
The southwest of Limburg an der Lahn located castle Katzenelnbogen built around 1095,
after which since 1138 called the Counts of Katzenelnbogen. They have family ties with
the Swabians. You have advocacies Abbey Prüm and Siegburg and the archbishopric of
Mainz in the area south of the Lahn. Your original possession in Kraichgau they lose, but
can with the Count of Nassau in 1160 to purchase the county on the Einrich.
The members of the family are very influential because of their family ties to the
Hohenstaufen and put bishops in Osnabrück and Münster. The brothers Hermann -
Diplomat in services Barbarossa - and Diether chancellor of Henry VI. are successful in
national politics.

16. To 1185 they get to St. Goar with the Rhine and customs since the 12th century
Würzburg fief for large-Gerau and Darmstadt. In the following period, during the
interregnum, they are to imperial 1249 at Trebur and 1255 in Dreieich. The gender split
in 1260 into two lines, whose possession of the Odenwald to the Lahn enough, both lines
have possession throughout the county.
Count William I (1276/77 - 1331) from the older line prevents further fragmentation
before the introduction of primogeniture. As a result, members of the Graf house again
occupy important positions in the kingdom and strengthen their position further within
the region. 1402, the two lines are reunited. By the proceeds from the Rhine duties they
go to great prosperity. Their economic power they prove as the main creditor of the
Rhenish archbishops. In 1422 they founded the Wetterau Association. 1453 they use the
financial collapse of Eppsteiner Counts in the county Diez and to take 1457 in the
Wetterau foot.
1479 drops the county Katzenelnbogen by the heiress of Philip the Elder to his son-
Landgraf Heinrich III. of Hesse, after giving long dispute with Jülich Berg (until 1520)
and Nassau, the Hessian is replaced by the proportion of the county Diez and 450,000
guilders.
Continuation - The reign of Philip the Magnanimous
In the division of an estate in 1567, after the death of Philip the Magnanimous, the Upper
County falls to George, who founded the line of Hesse-Darmstadt. The Lower County
Katzenelnbogen goes first to Philip as Hesse Rhine-rock, but already in 1583 the dies and
is inherited largely from Hessen Kassel.
From then on the county Katzenelnbogen shares the fate of Hesse, which is mainly
characterized by the inheritance dispute between Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt in
the 17th century. The majority of the lower county, except for the offices Braubach and
Katzenelnbogen belonging to Hesse-Darmstadt, remains at the Hesse-Kassel and shares
their story. The Upper County is the origin of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Continuation - The 30 Years War
Continuation - Hesse-Kassel from 1650 to today
1815 is the lower county to the Duchy of Nassau Hesse-Darmstadt, including areas and
falls to Prussia in 1866 and 1945 comes to Hesse.
sources:
Sante, Wilhelm. History of the German countries - Territories-Ploetz. Würzburg 1964th
Kobler, Gerhard. Historical Dictionary of German countries. Munich 1988th
http://www.hoeckmann.de/deutschland/regionen/katzenelnbogen.htm
The County of Katzenelnbogen was a rich immediate county, which was from 1095 to
1479 on the Middle Rhine. Since 1479, the Landgrave of Hesse carrier Graf track and the

17. track is "Count to Katzenelnbogen" is still part of the name in the house of Hesse. Other
winners of the title are the same two representative still reigning houses, namely the
Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Headquarters of the
counts was the same castle in the city today Katzenelnbogen.
Even at its peak, the area of the county was divided into two main areas, the so-called
Lower County to Katzenelnbogen and Rhine rock and the so-called Obergrafschaft to
Darmstadt. As a result of the 1567 division of the country carried the county of Hesse,
had fallen to the Katzenelnbogen 1479, the Upper County to the core of Hesse-Darmstadt
and the Lower County to the core of the later extinct Hesse-Rhine rock was.
Grafschaft Katzenelnbogen um 1400

18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_III,_Margrave_of_Baden-Baden
Father Christopher I,
Margrave of
Baden-Baden
Mother Ottilie of
Katzenelnbogen
Born 7 October 1474

19. Died 29 June
1536 (aged 61)