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Isenburg, the original countship was divided upon the death of Count Rembold II in 1137 into: Isenburg (or Isenburg-Isenburg), 1137–1199, eventually dividing c. 1210 into: Isenburg-Braunsberg, 1210–1388, when it was renamed Isenburg-Wied.
Count Ernst von Isenburg-Grenzau (born 1584, died May 30, 1664, in Brussels) was a Spanish general in the Thirty Years' War and the last representative of the ...
The arms of Isenburg-Grenzau. In 1158, Count Gerlach I of Isenburg-Limburg-Covern died. His territories were divided between his heirs, Henry I of Isenburg-Grenzau and Gerlach II of Isenburg-Covern. In 1213 Henry I began the construction of Castle Grenzau, located on a mountain spur along the Rhine trade route from Leipzig to Flanders.
The Lordship of Limburg passed to the House of Isenburg between 1219 and 1221 as an inheritance through the male line of the extinct House of Leiningen. Gerlach IV of Isenburg who succeeded, with his brother Henry II, their father Count Henry I of Isenburg-Grenzau between 1220 and 1227, chose Limburg as his residence.
John I of Isenburg-Limburg, "The blind Lord" (died 29 September 1312) was from 1289 Count of (Isenburg-) Limburg and the head of the House of Limburg. The core territory of the Lordship of Limburg consisted of the city of Limburg an der Lahn and several surrounding villages.
Gerlach V of Isenburg-Limburg (died 14 April 1355), also called Gerlach II "the Elder" of Limburg, was Count of Isenburg-Limburg. He reigned between 1312 and 1355 as Lord of Limburg an der Lahn , and the head of the House of Limburg.
It was partitioned between itself, Isenburg-Meerholz and Isenburg-Wächtersbach in 1673, and was mediatised to Isenburg in 1806. In 1816 Isenburg was partitioned between the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel. Count Ernest Casimir (1801-1848) was elevated to the rank of prince by Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, in
John II of Isenburg-Limburg was Lord of Limburg an der Lahn and the last Count of Isenburg-Limburg from 1365 until 1406. He is sometimes designated John III to differentiate him from his non-ruling older half-brother John II (died before 1353). [1] He was the third son of Count Gerlach V of Isenburg-Limburg from his second marriage (fourth ...