Bergh (noble family)

coat of arms

Map Heerenbergh, Kwartier Zutphen, 1741

Bergh House in 's-Heerenberg

Entrance from Haus Bergh with the Berghischen coat of arms

The counts of the Bergh had their ancestral seat at Huis Bergh in what is now the Dutch town of 's-Heerenberg .

history

The series of Counts von dem Bergh began in the 11th century with Constantinus I de Monte from the House of Monte and then passed to the House of Von der Leck in 1416 . With Oswald I. von dem Bergh the family was then in 1486 by Emperor Friedrich III. awarded the title of imperial count.

Count Wilhelm IV of Bergh-'s-Heerenberg (1537–1586) is recognized by the witch hunt critic Johann Weyer (1515 / 16–1588) as an opponent of torture and the use of the death penalty. In 1581 he became governor of Gelderland and Zutphen within the newly founded Union of Utrecht , but was deposed after a few years because of his contacts with the Spanish side. He was married to Maria von Nassau-Dillenburg (1539–1599), the sister of Wilhelm von Orange (1533–1584).

Wilhelm IV's son Hermann von dem Bergh (1586–1611) made a career on the Spanish side and in 1593 became governor of Spanish funds . His sister Elisabeth von Bergh's-Heerenberg (1581-1614) was from 1605 to 1614 Abbess of food from and abbess in the pins Freckenhorst (since 1605) and Nottuln (since 1613). Another sister, Catherina von Bergh-'s-Heerenberg (1578-1640), was married to Floris II. Count zu Culemborg (1577-1639), lord of Pallandt.

In 1712 the county went to the House of Hohenzollern-Berg and in 1769 finally to the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen .

Known family members

• Oswald I. von dem Bergh (1442–1511), ruling count of the Bergh
• Oswald III. von dem Bergh (1561–1586), officer during the Eighty Years War
• Elisabeth von Bergh-s'Heerenberg (1581–1614), abbess of the Essen monastery and abbess of other monasteries
• Maria Clara von Berg-s'Heerenberg (1635–1715), princess and regent of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

See also

• List of the Counts of the Bergh
• Hohenzollern mountain

literature

• Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Berlin 1854, Volume 1, pp. 50-51
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses for the year 1865, p.134f Breda-Berg (S'Heerenberg)

Web links

• History of Haus Bergh

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Comes Monte [n] sis Guilelmus"; see. Johann Weyer: De praestigiis daemonum et incantationibus ac veneficiis , Basel: Johann Oporinus successor 2nd ed. 1577, pp. 717f; Christoph Meiners : Historical comparison of the customs and constitutions, the laws and trades of trade and religion, the sciences and educational institutions of the Middle Ages with those of our century , Vol. III, Hannover: Helwing 1794, p. 368f.