Konrad Gumprecht (Bentheim-Limburg)
Count Konrad Gumprecht von Bentheim-Limburg (born March 10, 1585 in Bentheim , † March 10, 1618 in Limburg ) came from the Bentheim family and was sovereign of the county of Limburg .
family
He was a son of Count Arnold von Bentheim-Tecklenburg and Magdalena von Neuenahr-Alpen , the heiress of the County of Limburg .
He himself married on December 8, 1616 in Bentheim Countess Johannetta Elisabeth von Nassau-Dillenburg (1593–1654), a daughter of Count Johann VI. from Nassau-Dillenburg . With her he had the only child, Wilhelm (1617–1626).
Life
As one of the two youngest sons of the Bentheim count couple, Konrad Gumprecht did not participate in the paternal inheritance, but, like his younger brother, received his inheritance while his mother was still alive from the property brought into the marriage. While the rule of the Alps fell to his brother Friedrich Ludolf , he received the county of Limburg from the maternal inheritance of the Counts of Neuenahr. Since the county and Limburg Castle were occupied by troops from the Electorate of Cologne from 1584 to 1610 , Count Konrad Gumprecht von Bentheim did not come to power until 1612. Since about this time he suffered from a serious illness the course of which was probably chronic and which prevented him from exercising the government in the county of Limburg himself, which was instead administered by a drosten . Even the wedding scheduled for the summer of 1615 had to be postponed to the winter of the following year for this reason. Their son Wilhelm was born in September 1617 at Hohenlimburg Castle, the couple's residence. The disease, which was not further defined, caused Konrad Gumprecht's early death a little later.
His widow Johannetta Elisabeth, née Countess von Nassau-Dillenburg , took over the guardianship of their son Wilhelm with the help of agnates from the Bentheim and Nassau houses. In June 1618 this agreement was confirmed by Emperor Matthias . When Wilhelm died on November 26, 1626, the Limburg branch line of the Count's House of Bentheim also went out. The county was ruled by Countess Johannetta Elisabeth until 1654 and then fell to the new sovereign Count Moritz von Bentheim-Tecklenburg .
literature
- Stephanie Marra : Alliances of the Nobility. Dynastic action in the Grafenhaus Bentheim in the 16th and 17th centuries, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau, 2007. ISBN 3-412-31105-7
Remarks
- ↑ According to various sources, the date of death is March 10, 1618 or March 10, 1619.
Individual evidence
- ^ Konrad Gumprecht von Bentheim-Steinfurt , accessed on December 15, 2018
- ↑ page 7 and page 192 , accessed on December 15, 2018
Counts of Limburg 1242–1400: Dietrich | Eberhard I. | Dietrich III. | Dietrich IV.
Counts of Limburg-Broich 1400–1508: Dietrich V. | Wilhelm I. | Wilhelm II. | Dietrich VI. | Heinrich | Johann
Count of Daun-Falkenstein 1508–1546: Wirich V.
Count of Neuenahr 1442–1610: Gumprecht II. | Gumprecht III. | Gumprecht IV. | Hermann (regency) | Adolf | Amalia | Magdalena
Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg 1610–1817: Konrad Gumprecht | Johannetta Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg (Regency) | Moritz | Johann Adolf | Friedrich Moritz | Moritz Casimir I. | Moritz Casimir II. | Moritz Casimir III. | Emil Friedrich I.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Konrad Gumprecht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gumprecht von Bentheim-Limburg, Konrad (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Bentheim-Limburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1585 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bentheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1618 |
| Place of death | Limburg |