When Graf Adolf I von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein was born in 1307, in Idstein, Idstein, Untertaunuskreis, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany, his father, Gerlach I Wiesbaden, was 19 and his mother, Agnes von Hessen, was 15. He married Margarethe Von Zollern-Nürnberg in 1332, in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 17 January 1370, in Klarenthal, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, at the age of 63, and was buried in Klarenthal, Saarbrücken, Rhineland, Prussia, Germany.