Maria of Looz-Heinsberg explained

Mary of Looz-Heinsberg
Countess Consort of Nassau-Siegen
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Spouse:John IV of Nassau-Siegen
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Full Name:Mary of Looz-Heinsberg
Native Name:Maria van Loon-Heinsberg
Noble Family:House of Looz
Father:John II of Loon-Heinsberg
Mother:Anne of Solms
Birth Date:1424
Death Date:20 April 1502
Burial Place:Grote Kerk, Breda

Lady Mary of Looz-Heinsberg[1] (1424 – 20 April 1502), nl|Maria van Loon-Heinsberg, was a noble lady from the House of Looz and through marriage Countess of Nassau-Siegen.

Biography

Mary was born in 1424[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] as the eldest daughter of Lord John II of Looz-Heinsberg and his second wife Countess Anne of Solms.[7] Her older halfbrother John was Prince-bishop of Liège.[8] [9]

Mary married on 7 February 1440[10] to Count John IV of Nassau-Siegen (Breda Castle,[11] [12] 1 August 1410[13] [14] – Dillenburg, 3 February 1475[15] [16] [17] [18]), the eldest son of Count Engelbert I of Nassau-Siegen and Lady Joanne of Polanen.[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] In the period between the marriage and the death of John's father in 1442, Mary and John lived in the house De Herberghe in the Reigerstraat in Breda. After that they had their main Residenz in Breda Castle, from where John managed his domains located in the Netherlands. John also succeeded his father as Count of Nassau-Siegen together with his brother Henry II.[24] On 22 February 1447 John and his brother Henry divided their possessions, whereby John received the possessions in the Netherlands, ¼ of the County of Vianden, as well as Herborn.

Mary was known as a very devout Catholic. At the initiative of Mary and John the was transferred to the Grote Kerk in Breda in 1449. This was a miraculous host whose history is told in the Middle Dutch play and which is also depicted on the from around 1535.

After the death of his brother in 1451, John inherited his brother's possessions. His widespread possessions forced John to travel constantly, in order to govern his possessions well. When John was in his county, he governed it from Siegen or Dillenburg.[25] When the count's family started staying in the county more often, a court was established.[26] John had Dillenburg Castle – which until then had been used primarily as a stronghold against the unruly local nobility – extended in the period 1453–1467 and rebuilt into a residential castle for the count's family.[27] In 1464 Mary had a church chair made in the castle chapel and a shrine for the Blessed Sacrament.[28]

In 1469 Mary sent for rosemary and other herbs to be brought to Dillenburg from the Rhine (Cologne or Koblenz), presumably because of the plague. This is the oldest surviving report in the accounts about medicines.[29]

Through the marriage to Mary, John obtained the heerlijkheden of Herstal, Vught, Gangelt, Waldfeucht and the, so that he possessed ¼ of the Duchy of Jülich.[30] This led to a dispute with John's distant relative Count John II of Nassau-Saarbrücken, who was married to Lady Jeanne of Looz-Heinsberg, the daughter and heiress of Lord John IV of Looz-Heinsberg.[31] At Mary's husband's request, Emperor Frederick III declared on 28 May 1470 that by granting the entire Duchy of Jülich to Duke Gerhard VII, the claims of Mary and her sister Philippa of Looz-Heinsberg, were not to be affected.[32] Apparently this had no effect, because in 1471 or 1472 the Emperor ordered Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy to settle on his behalf the dispute between Gerhard on the one hand and Mary and John on the other.[33] The dispute became more complicated when in 1472 Gerhard VII's son William married to Countess Elisabeth of Nassau-Saarbrücken, John II's eldest daughter, who had inherited her mother's possessions.[34] [35] In 1474, the Emperor withdrew the order to Charles the Bold and instead transferred the matter to Archbishop John II of Trier.[36] The dispute was only settled when on 25 August 1499 Mary's eldest son Engelbert II transferred his half of the castle and the land of Millen with the towns of Gangelt and Vught to Duke William of Jülich and Berg and received in exchange from the latter on 27 August 1499 the city and the land of Diest and the castle and the land of Zichem and Zeelhem.[37]

As a widow Mary founded Vredenburg Abbey in Bavel in 1476, and the convent of the in 1478. She also devoted herself to the nunnery Saint Catherinadal Abbey in Breda. And in 1486 she generously endowed Saint Wendelin's chapel in Breda.

Mary stipulated in her will and testament, drawn up in 1501, that the should distribute 100 of grain from her estate for the poor of Dillenburg.[38] She died in Siegen[39] on 20 April 1502 and was buried in the Grote Kerk in Breda.[40] [41] [42]

Issue

From the marriage of Mary and John the following children were born:[43] [44] [45] [46]

  1. Anne (1440 or 1441[47] – Celle, 5 or 8 April 1514[48]), married:
    1. on 28 October 1467 to Duke Otto II the Victorious of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1439 – January 1471[49]);
    2. on 24 January 1474 to Count Philip the Elder of Katzenelnbogen (1402 – 28 July 1479[50]).
  2. Joanne (1444 – May 1468), married on 14 October 1464 to Count Philip I of Waldeck-Waldeck (1445 – 1475).
  3. Ottilie ([51] – Alkmaar, 22 April 1495). Was a nun in the Bethany Abbey near Mechelen until 1463 and then in the Saint Catherinadal Abbey in Breda 1463–1476. She was the first prioress of Vredenburg Abbey in Bavel 1476–1495.
  4. Adriana (Breda, 7 February 1449 – 15 January 1477[52]), married on 12 September 1468 to Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (21 September 1449 – 26 August 1500).
  5. Count Engelbert II the Illustrious (Breda, 17 May 1451 – Brussels, 31 May 1504), succeeded his father in the possessions in the Netherlands. Married in Koblenz on 19 December 1468 to Margravine (15 May 1450 – Breda, 5 July 1501).
  6. Count John V (Breda, 9 November 1455 – Dillenburg or Siegen,[53] 30 July 1516), succeeded his father in Nassau-Siegen and Diez. Married in Marburg on 11 February 1482 to Landgravine Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg (Marburg, May 1466 – Cologne, 17 January 1523[54]).

Ancestors

Ancestors of Mary of Looz-Heinsberg[55]
Great-great-grandparentsGodfrey I of Heinsberg

⚭ before 1299
Mathilde of Looz
Henry of Voorne

⚭
?
(?–?)		Gerhard V of Jülich

⚭ 1299
Elisabeth of Brabant-Aarschot
(–1350/55)		William I of Hainaut
(–1328)
⚭ 1305
Joan of Valois
(–1342)		Henry IV of Solms

⚭ before 1295
Elisabeth of Lippe
?
(?–?)
⚭
?
(?–?)		Kuno II of Falkenstein
(–1334)
⚭ before 1312
Anne of Nassau-Hadamar
Philip V of Falkenstein

⚭
Elisabeth
(?–?)
Great-grandparentsJohn I of Heinsberg

⚭
Catherine of Voorne
William I of Jülich

⚭ 1324
Joanna of Hainaut
(1311/13–1374)		Bernhard of Solms

⚭
?
(?–?)		Philip VI of Falkenstein

⚭ before 1363
Agnes of Falkenstein
GrandparentsGodfrey II of Heinsberg

⚭ 1357
Philippa of Jülich
Otto I of Solms

⚭
Agnes of Falkenstein
(–1409)
ParentsJohn II of Looz-Heinsberg

⚭ 1423
Anne of Solms

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Notes and References

  1. In English and French the county her name originated from is called Looz, while in Dutch and German it is called Loon. In older Dutch and German sources one can also find the spelling Loen.
  2. Schutte (1979), p. 41.
  3. Dek (1970), p. 69.
  4. Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 93.
  5. Blok (1911), p. 1219.
  6. Van Ditzhuyzen (2004), p. 151, however, states 1426 as her year of birth. That year of birth is unlikely, as it would mean that she married at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and that she gave birth to her first child at the age of fourteen or fifteen.
  7. Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 94.
  8. Van Ditzhuyzen (2004), p. 152.
  9. Jansen (1979), p. 31.
  10. The sources do not mention a place of marriage. Van Ditzhuyzen (2004), p. 151 states the date of marriage 7/17 February 1440.
  11. De Vries Feyens (1933), p. 14.
  12. Most of the sources do not mention a place of birth. Van Ditzhuyzen (2004), p. 151 states Dillenburg as place of birth, but that place of birth is very unlikely as his parents resided in the Netherlands in those days.
  13. Van Ditzhuyzen (2004), p. 151.
  14. Blok (1911), p. 1218.
  15. Becker (1983), p. 13.
  16. De Vries Feyens (1933), p. 15.
  17. Wenzelburger (1881), p. 252.
  18. Van der Aa (1860), p. 87.
  19. Becker (1983), p. 12.
  20. Jansen (1979), p. 30.
  21. Schutte (1979), pp. 40–41.
  22. Dek (1970), p. 67.
  23. Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), pp. 91–92.
  24. Huberty, et al. (1981), p. 219.
  25. Lück (1981), p. 24.
  26. Becker (1983), p. 28.
  27. Becker (1983), p. 31.
  28. Becker (1983), p. 36.
  29. Becker (1983), p. 47.
  30. Strinkingly Jansen (1979), p. 31 states that what Mary was bringing in, was quite modest.
  31. Book: Joachim, Ernst . 1881 . Johann II. von Nassau-Saarbrücken . https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Johann_II._(Graf_von_Nassau-Saarbr%C3%BCcken) . . de . Band 14 . . Duncker & Humblot . 263 .
  32. Web site: Chmel n. 6037 . Regesta Imperii Online . Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur . . de . 23 October 2022 .
  33. Web site: RI XIII H. 5 n. 237 . Regesta Imperii Online . Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur . . de . 23 October 2022 .
  34. Book: Harleß, Woldemar . 1878 . Gerhard VII. . https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Gerhard_VII. . . de . Band 8 . . Duncker & Humblot . 742–743 .
  35. Book: Redlich, Otto Reinhard . 1898 . Wilhelm IV., Herzog von Jülich . https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Wilhelm_III._(Herzog_von_J%C3%BClich-Berg) . . de . Band 43 . . Duncker & Humblot . 101 .
  36. Web site: RI XIII H. 5 n. 256 . Regesta Imperii Online . Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur . . de . 23 October 2022 .
  37. Van der Eycken (1980), pp. 17–18.
  38. Becker (1983), p. 48.
  39. Lück (1981), p. 25.
  40. Toebosch (1996).
  41. Van Raak (1995), p. 8.
  42. Lück (1981), p. 25 states that Mary was buried in the St. John's Church of the Franciscan monastery in Siegen, which was founded by her son John V. Since Mary is not mentioned in the records of the members of the House of Nassau buried in St. Mary's Church in Siegen – where they were reburied in 1836 from the aforementioned monastery church –, the author probably made a mistake.
  43. Schutte (1979), pp. 41–42.
  44. Dek (1970), pp. 69–70.
  45. Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), pp. 94–95.
  46. The second daughter from this marriage, Joanne, is not mentioned by Vorsterman van Oyen (1882) and Book: Textor von Haiger, Johann . 1617 . Nassauische Chronik. In welcher des vralt, hochlöblich, vnd weitberühmten Stamms vom Hause Naßaw, Printzen vnd Graven Genealogi oder Stammbaum: deren geburt, leben, heurath, kinder, zu Friden- vnd Kriegszeiten verzichtete sachen und thaten, absterben, und sonst denckwürdige Geschichten. Sampt einer kurtzen general Nassoviae und special Beschreibung der Graf- und Herschaften Naßaw-Catzenelnbogen, etc. . de . . Christoph Raab .
  47. https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/137371071 Katzenelnbogen, Anna Gräfin von
  48. The date of death 8 April 1514 in Dek (1970), p. 69, and 5 April 1514 in Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 94, and Katzenelnbogen, Anna Gräfin von.
  49. The date of death 8 or 19 January 1471 in Schutte (1979), p. 41, 8 January 1471 in Dek (1970), p. 69, 19 January 1471 in Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 94, and 17 January 1471 in Book: Spehr, Ferdinand . 1880 . Heinrich der Mittlere, Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg . https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Heinrich_der_Mittlere . . de . Band 11 . . Duncker & Humblot . 492 .
  50. The date of death 27 or 28 July 1479 in Schutte (1979), p. 41, and 27 June 1479 in Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 94.
  51. Schutte (1979), p. 42, Dek (1970), p. 70, and Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 95 mention Ottilie as the youngest daughter, without mentioning a date of birth, born after her brother John, who was born in 1455. Ottilie being born after 1455 seems to be unlikely as she was already mentioned as a nun to reform a convent in 1463. The year of birth in Book: Ruizendaal . Willem . Conrads . Marian . & . 1995 . Nassau & Oranje. 600 jaar geschiedenis van ons vorstenhuis. Van Engelbert I tot Willem-Alexander . nl . . BV Uitgeversmaatschappij Tirion . 37 . 90-5121-548-7 .
  52. The date of death 11 or 15 June 1477 in Schutte (1979), p. 42, and 11 June 1477 in Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 94.
  53. Schutte (1979), p. 42 and Dek (1970), p. 70 state Dillenburg as place of death, and Vorsterman van Oyen (1882), p. 95 states Dillenburg Castle. Assman & Menk (1996), however, state Siegen Castle as place of death and Joachim (1881), p. 253 states Siegen.
  54. Schutte (1979), p. 42 states the date 7 or 17 January 1523.
  55. Book: Schwennicke, Detlev . 1978–1995 . Europäische Stammtafeln. Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten. Neue Folge . de . . J.A. Stargardt .

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