Adolf von Neuenahr – Wikipedia
Adolf von Neuenahr ( Dutch Adolf van Nieuwenaar ) (* around 1554, † October 1589 in Arnheim), by heritage of Cologne -bailniac and ruling count of Limburg and Moers, was a military commander and Dutch governor.
Adolf came around 1554 as the only son of Count Gumprecht II (IV.) Of Neuenahr-Alpen (*around 1503, † May 21, 1556) and his third wife Amöna von Daun (*around 1520; † around 1582) Daughter of Wirich V of Daun-Falkenstein to the world. His godfather was the Archbishop of Cologne Adolf III.
| Appenders of Adolf Graf von Neuenahr and Limburg | ||||||
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| Great -grandparents |
Friedrich Graf von Neuenahr (after 1417–1468), Lord of Roesberg and Alps |
Wilhelm Graf von and zu Wertheim (1421–1482), Lord of Breuberg |
Melchior Graf von Daun (1445–1517), Lord of Oberstein and Bretzenheim |
Sebastian I. Graf von Sayn (1464–1498), Lord of Homburg |
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| Grandparent |
Gumprecht I. (III.) Graf von Neuenahr (after 1461–1504), Lord of Alps, Linnep and Helpenstein |
Wirich V. Graf von Daun (around 1473–1546), Herr (since 1518 Graf) von Falkenstein and Oberstein, 1508 Mitgraf von Limburg, Lord of Broich, Bürgel and Hackenbroich |
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| Parents |
Gumprecht II. (IV.) Graf von Neuenahr (around 1503–1556), Lord of Alps, Linnep and Helpenstein, 1543 Mitgraf von Limburg, Lord of Hackenbroich |
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Adolf Graf von Neuenahr and co -count of Limburg, Lord of Alps, Linnep, Helpenstein and Hackenbroich (One 1554–1589) |
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After the father’s death in 1556, Adolf inherited half of the county of Limburg, Alps, Helpenstein, Linnep Castle, Hackenbroich and the Cologne heir. He and his sisters Amalia and Magdalena were brought up at the Moers Castle, the courtyard of their guardian and uncle, the Count Hermann von Neuenahr and Moers (1520–1578), which was significant in the Reformation.
From 1570 with explanation of the age of majority, Adolf now appeared as a regent alone and on November 20, 1575 he was finally literally leaned by Duke Wilhelm V of Jülich-Kleve-Berg with Hohenlimburg Castle and the Beckhausen farm. [first] In the same year, Adolf married his niece 3rd degree, which is around thirty years older, Anna Walburga von Neuenahr (1522–1600), widow of the executed Count Philippe II. De Montmorency-Nivelle. Due to the inheritance law of his wife after the death of her brother Hermann on December 4, 1578, Adolf came into possession of the county of Moers, Bedburg, Garsdorf and Rösberg Castle.
At the outbreak of the Cologne War in 1583, which was triggered by the marriage of the Cologne Archbishop Gebhard I von Waldburg and his refusal to the archbishopric, Adolf was on his side. In the years since 1579 or 1580, Gebhard had regularly met his lover and later wife, the Protestant abbey lady in the Gerresheim Abbey, Countess Agnes von Mansfeld, on Adolf’s Castle Moers.
After the detention of Wilhelm IV von Bergh ‘S-Heerenberg in November 1583, the brother-in-law of Prince Wilhelm von Oranien, who had played a double game with the Spanish side, Graf Adolf became his position in early 1584 as a governor of the independent Netherlands in Gelderland transfer.
As early as 1584, his possessions of Moers, Bedburg and Hackenbroich were conquered and occupied by troops by the new Archbishop Ernst of Bavaria – the fief was withdrawn. After several weeks of siege, Hohenlimburg Castle also fell. In the same year, together with Joost de Soete, Adolf got the order to burn down parts of Twente to slow down the Spaniards. After the murder of Wilhelm von Oranien on July 10, 1584, Adolf was used as governor in Arnheim of the province of Overijssel.
On June 23, 1585, Adolf, together with Joost de Soete and Martin Schenk von Nideggen, experienced their defeat against the Spaniards under the leadership of Johann Baptista of Taxis at the Battle of Amerongen. Since Soete was captured, Adolf von Neuenahr took over his position as governor of Utrecht. As commander -in -chief of the troops, he conquered the city of Neuss in February 1586 and destroyed a number of smaller castles and paved courtyards in the Neuss area. On July 26, however, Neuss was recaptured by Spanish troops under the command of Alessandro Farneses. On the withdrawal, Adolf destroyed the Kampe Kloster Kamp.
In October 1589, Adolf in Arnheim was killed by a powder explosion when examining a self -made petard. [2]
Graf Adolf was the namesake for the Adolfinum high school in Moers.
- Carl Hirschberg: Adolf . In: History of the county of Moers . 2nd Edition. August Steiger, Moers 1892, pp. 90–100 ( Digitized the University and Landes Library Düsseldorf)
- Hugo Altmann: Neuenahr, Adolf Graf von. In: New German biography (Ndb). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8, p. 109 f. ( Digitized ).
- Pieter Lodewijk Muller: Neuenahr, Adolf Graf von . In: General German biography (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 484 f.
- ↑ Certificate of November 20, 1575; See Christoph Jakob Kremer: Academic contributions to Gülch- und Bergische History , BD. Ii History of the Lords and Counts of Limburg . Academic writings, Mannheim 1776, p. 83.
- ↑ Pieter Christiaensz Bor: Origin, beginning, and continued of the Dutch wars. Band 3. Van Sommer. a., Amsterdam 1681, S. 780.
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