Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg [SEP] father
Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg
Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg ( – 4 September 1390), nicknamed "the Bellicose", was a son of Gerlach I, Count of Nassau and his second wife, Irmgard of Hohenlohe.
Life.
As a younger son, Rupert was originally destined for a career in the clergy. Gerlach I abdicated in 1344, in favour of his sons, except he kept Sonnenberg Castle, where he lived. This castle was to be inherited by Kraft, Rupert's
the renunciation of his brother's, upon his entry into the order. Henry participated in the Sixth Crusade. He was the builder of the castles Sonnenberg, Ginsburg and Dillenburg.
Biography.
Henry II was the eldest son of Count Walram I of Nassau and a certain Kunigunde, possibly a daughter of a count of Sponheim or a daughter of count Poppo II of Ziegenhain.
Henry is mentioned for the first time in a charter dated March 20, 1198, together with his mother and his brother Rupert IV.