House Aldenburg-Bentinck

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Full coat of arms of the Counts of Aldenburg

House Aldenburg-Bentinck is the name of a semi-sovereign ruling house, which originated in 1663.

origin

The founder of the house was Count Anton I von Aldenburg , an illegitimate son of the last Count of Oldenburg, Anton Günther , and his fiancé Elisabeth Freiin von Ungnad.

Anton was by Emperor Ferdinand III. legitimized and raised to imperial baron , later to imperial count of Aldenburg. When his father died on June 19, 1667, he was given the lordships of Kniphausen , Varel and Doorwerth Castle as Oldenburg entails . After Anton's death, his descendants received the so-called Aldenburg tract on July 12, 1693, the rule of Kniphausen and the office of Varel confirmed as free property.

In 1733 Anton's granddaughter Charlotte Sophie married Wilhelm von Bentinck auf Rhoon and Pendrecht, who had been raised to the rank of imperial count, and were President of the Council of the Dutch provinces of Holland and Friesland . With that, the Aldenburg lords finally came to the Bentinck family . The name of the new line was Aldenburg-Bentinck or Bentinck-Aldenburg; the name Aldenburg-Bentinck was finally established.

Count of Aldenburg

  • 1663–1680: Anton I of Aldenburg
  • 1681–1738: Anton II of Aldenburg posthumously
    • his daughter Charlotte Sophie (1715–1800) married Imperial Count Wilhelm von Bentinck

  • Anton I of Aldenburg (1633–1680)

  • Anton II of Aldenburg (1681–1738)

Count of Aldenburg-Bentinck

  • 1738–1773: Wilhelm Graf von Bentinck (1704–1774)
  • 1773–1835: Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Bentinck (1762–1835), initially under the tutelage of his grandmother Charlotte Sophie
  • 1835–1876: Gustav Adolf von Aldenburg-Bentinck (1809–1876), co-regent of his father since 1834, was awarded the Primogenitur title of "Sublime" in 1845 according to a resolution of the Bundestag
  • 1886: Royal British recognition of the title of Count
  • 1888: Inheritance of the state rule Waldeck-Limpurg with seat at Gaildorf Castle in Württemberg and hereditary member of the Württemberg Chamber of Notaries
  • 1889: Princely Waldeck permission to use the Waldeck name and coat of arms
  • 1920: Admission to the Dutch nobility as Count or Countess van Aldenburg-Bentinck (for Godard Graf von Bentinck (* 1857, † 1940) and his descendants) as heir to Amerongen Castle in the province of Utrecht and Middachten Castle near Rheden in Gelderland
  • 1924: Admission into the Dutch nobility with the same titles (for Wilhelm Friedrich Graf von Bentinck (* 1880, † 1958) and his descendants)

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag Limburg (Lahn) 1972, pp. 314-315.
  • KA Tabor: The history of the Counts Aldenburg-Bentinck'schen succession dispute in an outline. Kupferberg, Mainz 1847. Digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 27 ( PDF; 4.6 MB ).

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