Otto Heinrich von Bylandt-Rheydt

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Otto Heinrich von Bylandt-Rheydt (* 1554 in Brempt ; † September 14, 1608 in Utrecht ) was a Kurbrandenburg Privy Councilor and war colonel .

Life

Origin and family

Otto Heinrich was a member of the Lower Rhine - Cleves baron Bylandt-Reydt . His parents were Otto von Bylandt-Rheydt († 1591) and Maria, née von dem Bongard († 1616). He had a daughter Maria, who married the watchman and rentmaster Ferdinand Appoltz around 1620 and widowed the clerk and rentmaster Johannes Pfeiffer in 1639.

Career

Bylandt initially embarked on an officer career and advanced to the rank of war colonel. On New Year's Day 1605 he was appointed Brandenburg Privy Chamber Councilor and Upper Marshal . He was a member of the Secret Council College , but was mainly used in the Jülich hereditary lands . In 1605 he brokered an alliance with the Netherlands to secure the Brandenburg claims . It was only after his death that the religious tensions erupted in the Jülich-Klevian succession dispute , as a result of which Brandenburg was able to secure his claims.

literature

  • Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200-year foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, pp. 313-314, No. 2.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Becker: Otto Heinrich von Bylandt zu Rheydt 1554-1608: Politics on the eve of the Thirty Years' War. In: Rheydter yearbook. For History, Art, and Local Lore , Volume 16, 1987, ( Review )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European Family Tables New Series , Volume XVIII Between Maas and Rhine 1 , Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main 1998, Tfl. 48.
  2. ^ Alfred Blömer: The descent of the Elisabeth Pungs (* 1776 in Rheydt) , Mönchengladbach 2007, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Bylandt-Rheydt, Otto Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brandenburg secret council and war colonel
DATE OF BIRTH 1554
PLACE OF BIRTH Brempt
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1608
Place of death Utrecht