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unusual facts about Eberwin III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt



Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg

In September 1588, he founded his first school, a Latin school in an abandoned monastery in Schüttorf.

During his reign, Arnold had to cope with a lawsuit brought by the Counts of Solms-Braunfels about the inheritance of the County of Tecklenburg.

He held the counties of Bentheim, Tecklenburg, Steinfurt, Limburg an der Lenne, the Lordship of Rheda, possessions on the Lower Rhine and bailiff rights in the Archbishopric of Cologne.

Arnold III of Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Steinfurt-Limburg (10 or 11 October 1554 in Neuenhaus – 11 January 1606 in Tecklenburg) was a German nobleman.

He attended the princely school in Jülich where he studied arts, languages and knightly exercises.

Bentheim-Steinfurt

He was succeeded by his less-religious son Eberwin III, and after his early death at age 26 was succeeded by their infant child, Arnold III under the regency of Anna of Tecklenburg.

Arnold also founded a successful school in Schüttorf during 1588, which was relocated to Steinfurt in 1591 and taught Latin, law, theology, philosophy and (from 1607) medicine.

Bredevoort

When the count of Steinfurt tried to sell his share of the castle to the bishop of Munster and the count of Loon tried to sell his share to the count of Gelderland, a conflict broke out between the bishop and the count of Gelderland.

Charles Paul Ernest, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt

Initially, he had to share power in the territories of Steinfurt and Alpen with his great-uncle Statius Philip (1668-1749).

Clemens Timpler

Clemens Timpler (1563, Stolpen – 28 February 1624, Steinfurt) was a German philosopher, physicist and theologian.

Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern

# Anna Elisabeth (b. Dessau, 5 April 1598 – d. Tecklenburg, 20 April 1660), married on 2 January 1617 to William Henry, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt

County of Bentheim

In 1263, Bentheim annexed the County of Tecklenburg, and over time various branches of the counts of Bentheim would annex and purchase various territories in Rheda, Steinfurt, and the Netherlands.

Eberwin III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt

Eberwin had his wife arrested, and locked her up in her own residence, Tecklenburg Castle.

Eberwin III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt (1536 – 19 February 1562 at Bentheim Castle) was a German nobleman.

He was a member of the elder line of the House of Bentheim-Steinfurt and was the ruling Count of 1544 Count of Bentheim and Steinfurt from 1544 until his death.

In 1553, when he was 18 years old, Eberwin III married the 21 years old Anna of Tecklenburg-Schwerin, the heiress of Tecklenburg.

Enno III, Count of East Frisia

Firstly, he married Countess Walburgis of Rietberg (1556–1586), daughter and heiress of Count John II of Rietberg, Lord of Esens, Stedesdorf and Wittmund and Countess Agnes of Bentheim-Steinfurt.

Johann Heinrich Heidegger

In 1659, he was called to Steinfurt to fill the chair of dogmatics and ecclesiastical history, and in the same year he became doctor of theology of Heidelberg.

Lengerich

Lengerich, Westphalia, in the Steinfurt district, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Otto Casmann

In 1589, Casmann joined the Schüttorf Trivial School, which in 1591 was moved to Steinfurt and expanded to the academic Gymnasium Illustre.

Schöppingen

It is located approximately 10 km south-west of Steinfurt.

Walburgis, Countess of Rietberg

Walburgis was the second daughter of Count John II of Rietberg and Agnes of Bentheim-Steinfurt in Rietberg.


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