Wirich von Bernsau

Wirich von Bernsau , Herr zu Bellinghoven (born January 23, 1582 , † April 1656 ) was a Klevian statesman.

Life

He was the fourth son of the Bergisches Raths and Marshal Wilhelm VI. (IV.). von Bernsau zu Hardenberg (around 1543–1599) and Magdalena (around 1546–1582), daughter of Count Philip II of Daun-Falkenstein .

Shortly after Wirich was born, his mother died. At his father's request, his uncle, Count Wirich VI, took over . von Daun-Falkenstein took over the guardianship of him and his siblings Philipp Wilhelm and Amena Walburg from 1586. They were brought up in the faith of the Reformation at Broich Castle . On July 3, 1597, the uncle, as guardian of Philipp Wilhelm and Wirich, was enfeoffed with the castle and rule of Hardenberg by Duke Johann Wilhelm von Jülich-Kleve-Berg .

On October 5, 1598, on the orders of Admiral Francisco de Mendoza , Spaniards moved in front of Broich Castle. After heavy fire, Count Wirich von Daun-Falkenstein finally had to surrender the next morning. Wirich von Bernsau was brought to safety in Duisburg with three twigs from Countess Anna Walburga von Neuenahr on October 8th . His uncle was murdered by the Spaniards three days later.

Wirich came to the Anger family in Ratingen through inheritance in 1606 . On October 25, 1606 the Hardenberg inheritance was divided between the brothers Philipp Wilhelm and Wirich. On September 7, 1609, Wirich finally renounced his father's inheritance entirely.

In the Jülich-Klevischer succession dispute from 1609 to 1614, Wirich stood on the side of the Margrave of Brandenburg Johann Sigismund and became Drost zu Bislich and Ringenberg .

Wirich swore on February 17, 1611 with the Klevischen knighthood with Bellinghoven Castle , which he had inherited in 1607 after the death of Konrad von Bernsau.

family

Marriage and offspring

On May 8, 1614, he married a Catholic Margarethe, daughter of Freiherr Heinrich von Munster , Lord von Meinhövel und ruins and Sophie von Altenbockum .

• Magdalena Sophie († December 7, 1641) ∞ Degenhard van Eyll
• Anna Elisabeth ∞ Gisbert Berndt von Bodelschwingh-Mengede
• Wilhelm († 1681)

In 1627 he married Margarethe von Hundt

literature

• Woldemar Harleß :  Bernsau, Wirich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 483 f.
• Helmut Dahm :  Bernsau, Wirich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 132 ( digitized version ).
• Otto Redlich : Mülheim an der Ruhr - Its history from the beginning to the transition to Prussia in 1815 . City of Mülheim an der Ruhr self-published, city of Mülheim an der Ruhr 1939.