Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen
Shortly after Ottilie's uncle and last male member of the family, Eberhard of Katzenelnbogen was murdered (1456), her grandfather Philipp I made an agreement with Frederick I, Elector Palatine, under which Ottilie was betrothed with the Elector's nephew Philip; however, when she reached a marriageable age in 1467, eleven years after the engagement, the groom refused to marry her for personal reasons.Instead, and thanks to the intrigues of John II of Baden, Elector and Archbishop of Trier, she was engaged with his nephew Christoph, heir of Baden-Baden.Only two years later, before 13 January 1471, Ottilie of Nassau-Dillenburg, Dowager Hereditary Countess of Katzenelnbogen remarried, with Count Oswald of Thierstein (1435 - end June 1488)[7] and three years later, on 24 January 1474, Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg, Engelbert II's sister, married with Count Philipp I of Katzenelnbogen the Elder as her second wife.After lengthy negotiations, was made a settlement between both parties, in which the Margrave of Baden-Baden received a sum of 4,000 florins in exchange of the formal renunciation of his wife's claims.[11] When Ottilie's cousin William III, Landgrave of Hesse died in 1500, she received another 12,000 guilders as monetary compensation, so in March 1501 the House of Baden finally waived their claims over the County of Katzenelenbogen.