Arnold II. (IV.) Of Bentheim-Tecklenburg

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Arnold II. (IV.) Von Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Steinfurt (born October 10/11, 1554 in Neuenhaus ; † January 11, 1606 in Tecklenburg ) was Count of Bentheim , Tecklenburg and Steinfurt , Lord of Wevelinghoven and, by marriage, Count of Limburg . According to Bentheimer and Tecklenburger counts, he is the second ruling count of his name, in Steinfurt the fourth; in Limburg he is the only one of his name to have no ordinal number.

Life

Arnold IV of Steinfurt
Monument in Steinfurt

Arnold is the son of Count Eberwin III. von Bentheim-Steinfurt (Ä. L.) and Countess Anna von Tecklenburg-Schwerin . He spent his youth in the Leeden Abbey near Tecklenburg with his sister Walburga.

Thanks to his mother, he received a special intellectual education. He attended the Princely School in Jülich to learn the "fine arts, languages ​​and knightly exercises". The young count completed all of this under the guidance of both a Catholic and a Reformed teacher. In 1571 the young count went to the high school in Strasbourg. There he studied Protestant theology, law and politics. Arnold was to visit the French court in Paris on his gentlemanly journey after studying in Strasbourg. However, this project was canceled when the Protestant count learned of the excesses of St. Bartholomew's Night. His training was continued at the Landgrave of Hesse in Kassel.

By inheritance and marriage he united a considerable number of small territories in his hand. They were the counties of Bentheim, Tecklenburg, Steinfurt, Limburg an der Lenne, possessions in the Lower Rhine, the rule of Rheda and bailiwick rights in the Electorate of Cologne . This gave the Count House of Bentheim-Tecklenburg a political significance. However, this could not be retained due to the lack of the right to birthright and the subsequent divisions of inheritance with land assignments. During his reign, Count Arnold also had to deal with an inheritance process with the Counts of Solms-Braunfels because of the County of Tecklenburg.

Between 1588 and 1593, Count Arnold II (IV) gradually introduced the reformed teachings of Johannes Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli into his territories. He got to know the teachings of these two Protestant theologians as a student at the High School in Strasbourg in 1571 and 1572. The time in Strasbourg was not only confessional, but also shaped politically and educationally for Count Arnold. He set up schools in his counties. In September 1588, a Latin school founded by Count Arnold and settled in a closed nunnery began teaching in Schüttorf in the county of Bentheim. This was the Count's first school establishment, so far he had limited himself to making donations to the existing schools. However, the Schüttorf School had to be relocated to Steinfurt in 1591 due to incursions by enemy troops. The high school in Steinfurt became the Arnoldinum grammar school in 1853 .

Arnold II von Bentheim-Tecklenburg died in 1606 after a series of 39 seizures of sudden epilepsy . The Düsseldorf doctor Galenus Weyer († 1619), who came to see him in Tecklenburg, could not save him. Together with the pharmacist and surgeon David , Weyer embalmed the body. Count Arnold was buried in the Evangelical Reformed parish church in Bentheim .

progeny

In Wesel he married Magdalena von Neuenahr-Alpen on July 26, 1573 , a daughter of Gumprecht II of Neuenahr-Alpen . The couple had the following children:

  • Otto (born December 22, 1574 in Steinfurt; † 1574)
  • Eberwin Wirich (born January 14, 1576 in Bentheim, † May 31, 1596 in Padua)
  • Adolf (born July 17, 1577 in Steinfurt; † November 25, 1623) ⚭ 1606 with Margarethe von Nassau-Wiesbaden
  • Anna (January 4, 1579 - December 9, 1624) ⚭ 1595 with Prince Christian I of Anhalt-Bernburg
  • Arnold Jost (April 4, 1580; † August 26, 1643) 8 1608 with Anna Amalia von Isenburg-Büdingen
  • Amalie Amoena (born May 15, 1581 in Tecklenburg, † January 31, 1584 in Bentheim)
  • Wilhelm Heinrich (born February 13, 1584 in Bentheim; † October 6, 1632) ⚭ 1617 with Anna Elisabeth von Anhalt-Dessau
  • Konrad Gumprecht (born March 10, 1585 in Bentheim; † March 10, 1618) ⚭ 1616 with Johannetta Elisabeth von Nassau-Dillenburg
  • Amoena Amalia (born March 19, 1586 in Bentheim; † September 3, 1625) ⚭ 1606 with Ludwig zu Anhalt-Köthen
  • Friedrich Ludolf (born August 23, 1587 in Bentheim; † January 8, 1629)
  • Magdalena (* May 6, 1591 in Steinfurt; † 1649) ⚭ May 24, 1631 in Steinfurt with Georg Ernst, son of Jobst von Limburg-Styrum

literature

  • Oskar Prince von Bentheim: Anna von Tecklenburg 1532–1582. The first Protestant regent in Westphalia. In: Yearbook for Westphalian Church History. Vol. 98, 2003, ISSN  0341-9886 , pp. 77-86.
  • Hans-Joachim Böckenholt: Castle and rule Rheda . Rhode Druck und Verlag, Harsewinkel-Marienfeld 1979, ISBN 3-921961-02-8 , pp. 26-30.
  • Karl Georg Döhmann (ed.): The life of Count Arnold von Bentheim 1554–1606 . Edited from the manuscripts. Winter, Burgsteinfurt 1903 ( digitized version from the University and State Library of Düsseldorf).
  • Stephanie Marra : Alliances of the Nobility. Dynastic action in the Grafenhaus Bentheim in the 16th and 17th centuries. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 3-412-31105-7 .
  • Gerhard Arnold Rumpius: Of salvation. Rom. Imperial clock, highly praiseworthy graff work Tekelenburg. From many and many old, credible history books and letters. Brauer, Bremen 1672, p. 105 ff. (Reprint: Edition Howe, Tecklenburg 1988, ISBN 3-925147-02-0 ).
  • Rudolf Rübel: Count Arnold von Bentheim-Steinfurt 1554–1606 . In: Westfälische Lebensbilder 9, Münster 1962, pp. 18–33.
  • Go Justizrat in Arnsberg, Müller: From the history of the county of Tecklenburg. Verlag Bischof, Lengerich 1920, p. 12 ff.
  • Peter Veddeler: The testament of Count Arnold von Bentheim from 1591. In: Das Bentheimer Land 76, 1973, pp. 71-88.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Probably David Schweinder from Steinfurt .
  2. ^ Karl Georg Döhmann (ed.): The life of Count Arnold von Bentheim 1554-1606 . Edited from the manuscripts. Winter, Burgsteinfurt 1903, p. 68 f.
predecessor Office successor
Eberwin III. Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg , Lord of Rheda
1562–1606 		Adolf
Arnold III Count of Steinfurt
1566–1606 		Arnold Jobst and
Wilhelm Heinrich
Adolf von Neuenahr Hereditary bailiff of the Archbishopric of Cologne
(on behalf of his wife)
1589–1606 		Adolf
personal data
SURNAME Arnold II of Bentheim-Tecklenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold II of Bentheim; Arnold II of Tecklenburg; Arnold IV of Steinfurt; Arnold of Limburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Bentheim, Tecklenburg, Steinfurt and Limburg, Lord of Rheda
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1554 or October 11, 1554
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenhaus
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1606
Place of death Tecklenburg