Lords and margraves of Bergen op Zoom

In 1533 Emperor Charles V granted the title of " Marquis of Bergen op Zoom" (French for " Marquis de Bergen op Zoom" ) at Anton de Berghe out of the house glymes, lord of Bergen op Zoom.

History

Bergen op Zoom was owned by the Lords of Breda until the family became extinct in the 13th century. The death of the last mistress of Breda, Isabella (1280 /81) and her husband Arnold of Leuven ( 1287 ) led to a division of the estate among the heirs in the later barony of Breda and later Marquisat Bergen op Zoom. Bergen op Zoom was Gerhard von Wesemaele. In the next few generations succeeded rare to keep the feud within a family. In the house Wesemaele followed the house and the house Boutershem glymes, the 1533 Margrave title was awarded, then the house and the house Witthem Merode, Count of Berg s'Herenberg, a Princess of Hohenzollern, the house La Tour d' Auvergne and finally, the Palatinate line of the Wittelsbach with Karl Philipp Theodor von Sulzbach, which should be Elector Palatine and Elector of Bavaria later.

The military strategic Margraviate was in the Generalitätslanden, was about 400 square kilometers in size, had about 30,000 inhabitants and generated its owner 90,000 guilders a year. She stood at the time of the United Netherlands militarily and politically under the sovereignty of the States General. She went on in the Batavian Republic was founded in 1795 and has been expropriated.

Lords of Bergen op Zoom

• Gerhard von Wesemaele, † before 1309, Mr. Bergen op Zoom,
• Arnold of Wesemaele, † 1312/13, whose son, Mr. Bergen op Zoom
• Mechtild of Wesemaele, † 1343, whose daughter, heiress of Bergen op Zoom; ∞ I Albrecht Voorne, Viscount of Zealand, † 1331 ∞ II Reinald Luf of Cleves, 1321/40 witnessed
• Mary of Wesemaele, † after 1390, Arnold's great-niece, heiress of Bergen op Zoom; ∞
• Henry VII of Boutershem, † before 1371, Mr. Bergen op Zoom
• Henry VIII of Boutershem, † 1419, his son, to Bergen op Zoom
• Henry IX. of Boutershem, † 1419, his son, to Bergen op Zoom, whose daughter Joan of Boutershem, † 1430, heiress of Bergen op Zoom ∞
• Jean I de glymes, † 1427, 1419 Lord of Bergen op Zoom (House glymes )
• Jean II de glymes, † 1494, their son, Mr. Bergen op Zoom
• Jean III. de glymes, † 1531, whose son, Lord of Bergen op Zoom
• Anton de Berghe, † 1541, whose son, Mr. and 1533 Dutch Marquis de Bergen op Zoom

Marquis of Bergen op Zoom

• Anton de Berghe, † 1541, 1533 Dutch Marquis de Bergen op Zoom
• Jean IV de Berghe, † 1567, his son, the Marquis de Bergen op Zoom
• Mencia de Berghe, † 1561, his sister; ∞ Johann IX. Freiherr von Merode in Petershem, † 1601
• Maria Margareta von Merode, † 1588, their daughter, the Marquise de Bergen op Zoom, Comtesse de Walhain; ∞ Jan of Witthem, Vicomte de Sebourg, † 1588
• Maria Mencia of Wittem, † 1613, their daughter in 1588 Marquise de Bergen op Zoom; ∞ I Hermann Graf von Berg - s'Herenberg, † 1611; ∞ II Henry, Count of Berg- s'Herenberg, † 1638, whose brother
• Marie Elisabeth Clara, † 1633, their daughter, the Marquise de Bergen op Zoom; ∞ Albert Graf von Berg - s'Herenberg, † 1656
• Henry, Count of Berg- s'Herenberg, Marquis de Bergen op Zoom, † 1638, second husband of Maria Mencia of Witthem (see above)
• Marie Elisabeth, † 1671 in Bergen op Zoom; ∞ Eitel Friedrich II Count of Hohenzollern, † 1661 (Hohenzollern)
• Franziska Henriette (1642-1698) Princess of Hohenzollern, 1671 Marquise de Bergen op Zoom; ∞ Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d' Auvergne, Comte d' Auvergne, † 1707 (House of La Tour d' Auvergne )
• François Egon de La Tour d'Auvergne (1675-1710), whose son, 1698 Marquis de Bergen op Zoom
• Marie -Henriette de La Tour d' Auvergne (1708-1728), whose daughter, 1713 Marquis de Bergen op Zoom; ∞
• Johann Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach 1723, 1732 Lord of the Margraviate of Bergen op Zoom, † 1733 (master list of Wittelsbach )
• Charles IV Philipp Theodor (1724-1799), whose son, 1743 Elector of the Palatinate, Elector of Bavaria in 1777