Hanau
Hanau was a lordship on the lower Main in the Wetterau, ruled from Hanau by the family of that name. In 1337 Ulrich II held Bornheimerberg, pledged to him by Emperor Louis IV and contested by Frankfurt.
Raised to a county in 1429, Hanau split into Münzenberg and Lichtenberg in 1458. From 1597 the Münzenberg counts settled Walloon and Dutch religious refugees in a fortified New Town. When the male line ended in 1736, Münzenberg passed to Hesse-Kassel and Lichtenberg to Hesse-Darmstadt.
Characters
- Adelaide of Nassau
- Agnes of Hanau
- Agnes of Hohenlohe
- Anna of Hanau
- Elisabeth of Hanau
- Elisabeth von Rieneck
- Reinhard of Hanau
- Ulrich I, Lord of Hanau
- Ulrich II, Lord of Hanau
- Ulrich III, Lord of Hanau
- Ulrich IV, Lord of Hanau