Adolf of Germany
King of Germany (1292-1298), count of Nassau (1276-1298) · Lived 1255 to 1298 · aged 43
Count of Nassau who rose to king of Germany in 1292, only to become the first healthy Roman ruler deposed by electors without papal intervention - six years later he died in battle against the man who replaced him.
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1292 St. Marien Aachen Urkunde
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Glasfenster Konig Adolf von Nassau
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Klarissenkloster Klarenthal Stifterbild mit König Adolf, seiner Gemahlin Imagina - gezeichnet von Henrich Dors 1632
The death of Adolf of Nassau by raid in the battle of Göllheim. By Alfred Rethel
Zwei Glasfenster des Chores der chemaligen MauritiuskircheAbout this person
Adolf inherited Nassau around 1276, a minor count among many. In 1292 the prince-electors chose him king of Germany, part of a pattern where rival comital families competed for the crown without commanding the strength to hold it. He never received papal coronation, so the imperial title stayed out of reach. By 1298 those same electors turned on him - the first time a physically and mentally sound ruler of the Holy Roman Empire had been deposed without the church's formal condemnation. He met his successor, Albert of Habsburg, at the Battle of Göllheim on 2 July 1298 and died there, sword in hand, the kingship already gone.