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3 unusual facts about Engelbert, Count of Nevers


John I, Duke of Cleves

Engelbert, Count of Nevers (26 September 1462 – 21 November 1506) married 23 February 1489 Charlotte de Bourbon-Vendôme

Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé

Engelbert de Clèves, Comte de Nevers

Zoudenbalch

The Duke supported the cause of the Utrecht Hooks cautiously but not outrightly, sending his younger son, Engelbert, to join the Hook forces as a figurehead generalissimo.


Aimery III of Narbonne

Pressured by Odo III, Duke of Burgundy, and Hervé, Count of Nevers, the viscount of Narbonne bowed to a Papal command and assisted the crusaders with money, supplies and castles.

Andreas von Auersperg

Andreas von Auersperg was born in the Carniolan town of Seisenberg into one of the leading Protestant Austrian families in the Duchy of Carniola as the youngest son of Wolfgang-Engelbert von Auersperg, Lord of Schönberg, Seisenberg and Flödnig, and Anna Maria von Lamberg.

Counts and Dukes of Rethel

The first counts of Rethel ruled independently, before the county passed first to the Counts of Nevers, then to the Counts of Flanders, and finally to the Dukes of Burgundy.

Denklingen Castle

On the 24th of August, 1423, Engelbert von Scheidt, called Weschpfenning, was granted the fiefdom of the castle of Denklingen.

Engelbert Arnold

Engelbert Arnold (7 March 1856 – 16 November 1911) was a Swiss-born electrical engineer.

Engelbert III, Margrave of Istria

Engelbert attended the 1156 Imperial Diet in Regensburg, where he witnessed the granting of the Privilegium Minus by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, elevating the March of Austria to a duchy.

Ermengarde of Nevers

Ermengarde de Nevers (1073–1100) was the daughter of Renaud II, Count of Nevers and Auxerre, and of Ida de Forez.

Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Ellen Walters Delano (a first cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Frederick Baldwin Adams, he married as his second wife on July 23, 1969, the Swedish princess Marie-Luise Natalie Engelberta Ludmilla Nancy Julie, Prinzessin von Croÿ, daughter of Nancy Louise Leishman and Karl Rudolf Engelbert Phillipp Leo, Herzog von Croÿ.

Graf-Engelbert-Schule

Else Hirsch was a teacher in Bochum during the Third Reich and organized ten children's transports, saving many lives, though she herself perished in the Holocaust.

Margaret of Bavaria

In 1385, at the Burgundian double wedding in Cambrai, she married John, Count of Nevers, the son and heir of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Margaret of Dampierre, Countess of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy; at the same time her brother, William II, Duke of Bavaria married their daughter Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria.

Pierre Kalala Mukendi

Pierre Kalala Mukendi (born 22 November 1939 in Likasi) is a Congolese football forward who played for Zaire and also played for TP Engelbert called now TP Mazembe.

Prince Franz-Josef of Bavaria

Engelbert, Duke of Arenberg

Schloss Nordkirchen

In 1833 the complex passed to Baron von Esterházy who sold it to Duke Engelbert Marie von Arenberg in 1903.

Siegfried I, Count of Sponheim

In 1048 he documents as Gaugraf in the Pustertal and Count in the Lavanttal, Siegfried must therefore have already succeeded to his father-in-law Engelbert IV as heir to this territory by then.

The Most Beautiful Girl

British Pop star Engelbert Humperdinck included "The Most Beautiful Girl" on his 1973 album Engelbert: King of Hearts.

William IV, Count of Nevers

William IV, Count of Nevers, (c. 1130 – Acre, 24 October 1168) Count of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre (1161–1168).


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