Anna Walburga von Neuenahr

Anna Walburga von Neuenahr (* 1522 ; † May 25, 1600 ) was ruling Countess von Moers by inheritance .

Life

Anna Walburga was a daughter of Count Wilhelm II von Neuenahr (around 1485 / 91–1552) and the heir to the County of Moers , Countess Anna von Wied (around 1500–1528). The Cologne cathedral provost and university chancellor, Count Hermann von Neuenahr the Elder (1492–1530) was her uncle.

→ For further ancestors cf. the article on her brother Hermann von Neuenahr the Younger (1520–1578) .

In autumn 1543, considerations were made about a marriage between Anna and Duke Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1526–1569), but this did not lead to any result. On November 26, 1546, she married Philippe de Montmorency, Count von Horn (* 1526), who was beheaded on June 5, 1568 in Brussels on the market square.

In 1575 Anna Walburga married her third nephew Count Adolf von Neuenahr (around 1554–1589). After the death of her brother Hermann von Neuenahr the Younger on December 12, 1578, after disputes with Werner von Salm-Reifferscheid , she and her husband inherited the counties of Moers , Bedburg , Garsdorf and Rösberg Castle .

Web links

Els Kloek: Nieuwenaer, Anna Walburgis van , in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (holdings 3 Political Archives of Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous, No. 2427 and 2447).

predecessor	Office	successor
Adolf	Countess von Neuenahr-Bedburg-Rösberg 1578 / 89–1600	Moritz of Orange
Adolf	Countess of Moers 1578 / 89–1600	Moritz of Orange

personal data
SURNAME	Neuenahr, Anna Walburga from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Countess von Moers ruled by heir
DATE OF BIRTH	1522
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1600

[1] Cf. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (holdings 3 Political Archives of Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous, No. 2427 and 2447).