Lynden (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those van Lynden

The van Lynden family is an old Gelding noble family. Numerous branches of the family still exist in the Netherlands to this day .

In the 16th century a line was formed, which in 1623 came to the imperial estate in the county of Reckheim and thus to the high nobility . Since 1676 the official title of this line, which has been sitting in what is now Belgium, has been Counts of Aspremont-Lynden . The county of Reckheim was annexed by France in 1795.

history

Lienden rule in the 17th century

Originally the family comes from Lienden in the Betuwe countryside in what is now the Netherlands (the Huis ter Lede ancestral castle there was demolished in 1823).

The family consists of several branches. Most of them stayed in the Netherlands and made up several high-ranking military officials, politicians and ministers from the Republic of the Seven United Provinces and the Netherlands.

From 1375 to 1931 the family resided at Hemmen Castle (municipality of Overbetuwe , Gelderland), and temporarily also at Aalst Castle (near Zaltbommel ) and Sinderen (near Voorst ).

  • Ter Lede Castle in Lynden

  • Hemmen Castle

Counts of Reckheim and Counts of Aspremont-Lynden

Coat of arms of the Counts of Aspremont and Lynden

In the 16th century, Thierry de Lynden (Dirk van Lynden) went to the court of the Prince-Bishop of Liège , Erhard von der Mark , married his niece Katharina, later sold his Dutch estates and acquired goods (including Dormaal) in the prince-bishopric. He served its regents as steward and privy councilor. His son Hermann von Lynden (1547–1603) acquired the rule of Reckheim (now Rekem in Belgium) from Wilhelm von Quadt -Wykradt in 1579 , his brother Robert von Lynden (approx. 1535-1610) the rule of Stoumont with Froidcourt Castle. Both were high-ranking military officials. In 1610 they were raised to imperial barons. In 1676 their descendants received the imperial count status under the name Aspremont-Lynden , with reference to an alleged (but based on forgery) descent from the Lorraine counts of Apremont , who had died out in the 14th century and who had carried a similar coat of arms. The county Reckheim belonged since the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle and their owners the Westphalian Count College at.

  • Reckheim Castle (Rekem) 1626

  • Aspremont-Lynden Castle in Rekem today

  • Froidcourt Castle in Stoumont , 1626

This branch provided high-ranking military, politicians and ministers in the Principality of Liège , in the Holy Roman Empire and later in Belgium . Several members of this branch served the Habsburgs and settled in Austria-Hungary , including Field Marshal Count Ferdinand Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden (1645–1708), who received possessions in Hungary through his marriage to Julia Barbara Rákóczi , or his nephew Ferdinand Karl von Aspremont-Lynden (1689–1772), who was also field marshal. Today traces can be found above all in Austria , Slovakia and Hungary, such as the Palais Aspremont in Bratislava and the Palais Erdödy-Fürstenberg in Vienna .

In 1793 the county of Reckheim was occupied by France and annexed in 1795. Count Johann Nepomuk Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden (1732-1805) was compensated with the Baindt Monastery in Württemberg and a pension in 1802 , but in 1812 his son sold the monastery. With his death on September 16, 1819 and only three days later, that of his only son Karl Gobert (1790–1819), the line of the Counts of Reckheim became extinct in the male line. Heiress of the Hungarian estates Lednitz , Ónod , Szerencz, Borsi and Makovicza became Countess Maria von Aspremont-Lynden (1787–1866), daughter of Count Johann Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden (1757–1819), and from 1807 the wife of Count Georg Erdödy ( 1785-1859).

Known members

Branch in the Netherlands

Theo Graf van Lynden van Sandenburg (1826–1885), Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1879–1883)

Branch in Belgium

Places related to the family

Sandenburg Castle in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede , owned by the family since 1792
Barvaux Castle , owned by the family since 1680
  • Blitterswijck Castle , Netherlands (1515–1788)
  • Aspremont-Lynden Castle in Rekem , Belgium (owned by the family from 1579–1792)
  • Froidcourt Castle in Stoumont , Belgium (acquired from Robert von Lynden , remained the seat of the older line of the Counts Aspremont-Lynden, Barons von Froidcourt, until around 1792 )
  • Barvaux Castle , Belgium (owned by the family from 1680 until today)
  • Sandenburg Castle , Netherlands (owned by the family from 1792 until today)
  • Haltinne Castle in the municipality of Gesves , Belgium (1814–1889)
  • Ry Castle, Mohiville , Belgium (owned by the de Maillen family from 1598 to the present day, d'Aspremont Lynden de Maillen since 1909)
  • Mouffrin Castle , Belgium (? (After 1875) until today owned by the family)
  • Palais Aspremont in Vienna (end of the 17th century - 1714)
  • Aspremont Palace in Bratislava (1769–1781)
  • Lednické Rovne Castle in Slovakia (approx. 1756–1819), with its park and the tomb of Johann Nepomuk von Aspremont-Lynden
  • Baindt Monastery : In 1802 the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization and became the property of the Count of Aspremont-Lynden. In 1812, Count Johann Nepomuk Gobert sold Baindt, which in 1806 had been brought under royal Württemberg sovereignty by the Rhenish federal act, to merchants from Ulm.
  • coat of arms

  • Coat of arms of the Barons von Lynden, 1860

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Lynden, 1882

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Aspremont-Lynden, 1845

  • Aspremont-Lynden coat of arms between 1846 and 1865

See also

Web links

Commons : Maison de Lynden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ autorisados à l'ajout de MAILLEN à son nom (26 november 1909)
  2. ↑ 14-18: Belgian soldiers on the Russian front
  3. ↑ Memorial plaque of the former students and faculties of the University of Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP) in Namur who died during the two world wars, Namur (name)
  4. ↑ Lednické Rovne Botanical Park
  5. ↑ Aspremont-Linden park v Lednických Rovniach ( Memento from May 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Genealogisches Staats-Handbuch, 66th year, published by Franz Varrentrapp, Frankfurt am Main 1835, p. 384
  7. ^ British Museum
  8. ^ British Museum