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6 unusual facts about Bronckhorst


Adelaide of Holstein-Rendsburg

Adelaide of Holstein-Rendsburg (died January 1350), Countess of Schauenburg, was a daughter of Count Henry I and his wife, Helwig of Bronckhorst.

Bernhard Albrecht of Limburg and Bronckhorst

Bernhard Albrecht, count of Limburg and Bronckhorst (died 1669), son of Jobst of Limburg, married in 1626 Anna Maria von Berg.

Juliane Petronella countess of Limburg and Bronckhorst, who married count Henri de Pas de Feuquieres; and

Georg of Limburg

Finally she inherited the possessions of her uncle, Count Joost van Bronckhorst-Borculo and brought those territories to the Limburg Stirum.

Henry I, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg

He married in 1289 to Heilwig (1265 – after 1324), the daughter of Count Floris of Bronckhorst.

Otto of Limburg

Otto of Limburg, count of Limburg and Bronckhorst, was the son of Hermann Otto I of Limburg-Styrum.


August Philip of Limburg Stirum

August Philipp Karl of Limburg Stirum (1721–1797), count of Limburg Stirum and Bronckhorst, was the son of Otto Leopold Count von Limburg Styrum und Bronckhorst, Lord of Gemen and Raesfeld (1688–1754) and Anna Elisabeth countess of Schönborn (1686–1757).

Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Van Bronckhorst was born in Rotterdam to Victor van Bronckhorst, an Indonesian-Dutch and Fransien Sapulette, a Moluccan mother.

Lordship of Anholt

In 1512 the forces of Guelders under Duke Charles of Egmond occupied Anholt, as the Bronckhorst counts had sided with his rival Philip I of Castile, and could not be induced to release it until in 1537 they were paid a significant ransom.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

The gallery holds several works by Bronckhorst and his successor, Adrian Vanson; both were skilled painters in the Netherlandish tradition.


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