Margrave of Bergen op Zoom
In 1533, Emperor Charles V awarded the title " Margrave of Bergen op Zoom " (French "Marquis de Bergen op Zoom") to Anton de Berghes from the House of Glymes , Lord of Bergen op Zoom.
history
Bergen op Zoom was owned by the Lords of Breda until the family died out at the end of the 13th century. The death of the last mistress of Breda, Isabella (1280/81) and her husband Arnold von Löwen (1287) led to a division of the property among the heirs into the later Barony of Breda and the later Marquisate Bergen op Zoom. Bergen op Zoom received Gerhard von Wesemaele. In the next generations it was seldom possible to keep the fief within a family. House Wesemaele was followed by House Boutershem and House Glymes , which was awarded the title of margrave in 1533, then House Merode and House Witthem, Count von Berg s'Herenberg, a princess of Hohenzollern , House La Tour d'Auvergne and finally the Palatine line of the Wittelsbach family with Karl Philipp Theodor von Sulzbach , who would later become Elector Palatinate and Elector of Bavaria.
The strategically important margravate was in the generals land , was around 400 square kilometers in size, had a good 30,000 inhabitants and earned 90,000 guilders a year for its owner. At the time of the United Netherlands, it was militarily and politically under the sovereignty of the States General . It went up in the Batavian Republic founded in 1795 and was expropriated.
Lords of Bergen op Zoom
- Gerhard von Wesemaele , † before 1309, Herr von Bergen op Zoom,
- Arnold von Wesemaele , † 1312/13, his son, Mr. von Bergen op Zoom
- Mechtild von Wesemaele , † 1343, his daughter, heiress of Bergen op Zoom; ∞ I Albrecht von Voorne, Burgrave of Zealand , † 1331, ∞ II Reinald Luf von Kleve, 1321/40 attested
- Maria von Wesemaele , † after 1390, Arnold's great niece, heiress of Bergen op Zoom; ∞
- Henry VII of Boutershem , † before 1371, Lord of Bergen op Zoom
- Henry VIII of Boutershem , † 1419, his son, in Bergen op Zoom
- Henry IX. von Boutershem , † 1419, his son, to Bergen op Zoom, his daughter Johanna von Boutershem, † 1430, heiress of Bergen op Zoom ∞
- Jean I. de Glymes , † 1427, 1419 Lord of Bergen op Zoom ( Glymes House )
- Jean II. De Glymes , † 1494, their son, Herr zu Bergen op Zoom
- Jean III de Glymes , † 1531, his son, Herr zu Bergen op Zoom
- Anton de Berghes , † 1541, his son, lord and 1533 Dutch Marquis de Bergen op Zoom
Margraves of Bergen op Zoom
- Anton de Berghes , † 1541, 1533 Dutch Marquis de Bergen op Zoom
- Jean IV. De Berghes , † 1567, his son, Marquis de Bergen op Zoom
- Mencia de Berghes , † 1561, his sister; ∞ Johann IX. Baron von Merode in Petershem, † 1601
- Maria Margareta von Merode , † 1588, her daughter, Marquise de Bergen op Zoom, Comtesse de Walhain; ∞ Johann von Witthem, Viscount de Sebourg, † 1588
- Maria Mencia von Wittem , † 1613, her daughter 1588 Marquise de Bergen op Zoom; ∞ I Hermann Graf von Berg-s'Herenberg, † 1611; ∞ II Heinrich, Count von Berg-s'Herenberg, † 1638, his brother
- Marie Elisabeth Clara , † 1633, her daughter, Marquise de Bergen op Zoom; ∞ Albert Graf von Berg-s'Herenberg, † 1656
- Heinrich, Count von Berg-s'Herenberg, Marquis de Bergen op Zoom , † 1638, 2nd husband of Maria Mencia von Witthem (see above)
- Marie Elisabeth , † 1671, in Bergen op Zoom; ∞ Eitel Friedrich II. Count of Hohenzollern, † 1661 ( Hohenzollern )
- Henriette Franziska (1642–1698) Princess of Hohenzollern, 1671 Marquise de Bergen op Zoom; ∞ Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Comte d'Auvergne, † 1707 ( House La Tour d'Auvergne )
- François Egon de La Tour d'Auvergne (1675–1710), his son, 1698 Marquis de Bergen op Zoom
- Marie-Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne (1708–1728), his daughter, Marquis de Bergen op Zoom in 1713; ∞
- Johann Christian , 1723 Count Palatine von Sulzbach, 1732 Lord of the Margraviate of Bergen op Zoom, † 1733 ( list of the Wittelsbach family )
- Karl IV. Philipp Theodor (1724–1799), their son, 1743 Elector of the Palatinate, 1777 Elector of Bavaria
literature
- Detlev Schwennicke, European family tables
- Volume VII (1979) Plate 100 ff. (Breda, Wesemaele, Boutershem, Glymes),
- Volume VI (1978) Plate 39 (Berg)
- Volume X (1986) Plate 97 (La Tour d'Auvergne)