Wilhelm IV of Schaesberg

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Wilhelm IV. Von Schaesberg (last mentioned 1534) was head of the noble family von Schaesberg from the Lower Rhine .

Life

Heraldic shield since 1510

A last entry in a document concerning Wilhelm can be found in 1534. It is known about him that in 1487 he married Christina von Hochkirchen from a family of lay judges in Aachen . He had nine children with her. Caspar, Maria, Margaretha, Erna, Christina and Anna chose the clergy and joined a religious community . Jorrys (Georg) the firstborn married Anna Judenkop von Streithagen in 1540. Catharina (called 1517–1552) married the wild count Peter von Daun, Lord of Kallenborn, in 1518. Daun was the electoral Trier country master , grand steward and bailiff of Daun. The marriage refers to the growing social prestige of the count house.

Nothing more is known about the place where Wilhelm died.

literature

  • Leo Peters : History of the sex from Schaesberg to mediatization. A contribution to the exploration of the inter-territorial ties of the Rhine-Maasland nobility . Ed .: Johannes Erbgraf von Schaesberg. Verlag der Buchhandlung Matussek, Nettetal 1990, ISBN 3-920743-19-9 , p. 308 .
  • Ernst Tode: Chronicle of the Retersbeck-Schaesberg. Starke, Görlitz 1918, p. 256

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tode refers to four illegitimate children of Wilhelm IV, namely Wilhelm, Gabriel, Balthasar and Tringen (Catharina). One of them becomes the progenitor of the Schaesberg-Gryzzegruben branch. They lead the bastard thread in the seal p. 229
  2. ↑ Leo Peters, Johannes Erbgraf von Schaesberg (Hrsg.): History of the sex from Schaesberg to mediatization. A contribution to the exploration of the inter-territorial ties of the Rhine-Maasland nobility. Verlag der Buchhandlung Matussek, Nettetal 1990 p. 14
predecessor Office successor
Friedrich I. von Schaesberg Head of the Schaesberg family Jorrys von Schaesberg
personal data
SURNAME Schaesberg, Wilhelm IV. Von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century