Hermann Otto I of Limburg-Styrum, count of Limburg

Hagen-Hohenlimburg

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 and Bronckhorst

Bronckhorst

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, lord of Styrum

Styrum

Styrum was an immediate lordship in the Holy Roman Empire, located in Mülheim an der Ruhr in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It held no seat in the Diet, and was totally circumvened by the lordship of Broich....

, Gemen

Gemen

Gemen was an immediate, sovereign lordship of the Holy Roman Empire, in the Lower Rhine region. Since Gemen had a vote in the Imperial Diet it was also an Imperial Estate. It was centered on Gemen, a small town and castle in the present municipality of Borken, western North Rhine-Westphalia.Gemen...

, Wisch

Wisch (Gelderland)

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 and Borculo

Borculo

Borculo is a former municipality and a village in the eastern Netherlands, in the Province of Gelderland.On January first 2005 the municipality Borculo merged with the municipalities of Eibergen, Neede and Ruurlo into the municipality of Berkelland....

, and from 1640 to 1644 advocate of the imperial abbey of Vreden

Vreden

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, was born in 1592, and died on 17 October 1644. He was the eldest son of Jobst of Limburg

Jobst of Limburg

Jobst of Limburg was count of Limburg and Bronckhorst, Lord of Styrum, Wisch and Borculo , and the son of Hermann Georg of Limburg, count of Limburg and Bronckhorst....

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Family

He married baroness Anna Magdalena von Spiess (1599—1659) in 1618 and had four children:

• Otto
  Otto of Limburg
  Otto of Limburg, count of Limburg and Bronckhorst, was the son of Hermann Otto I of Limburg-Styrum.He married in 1643 Elisabeth Charlotte countess von Dohna and they had eight children:* Otto Christoffel, who was killed in 1673;...
  
  , count of Limburg and Bronckhorst (died 1679);

• Adolf Ernst
  Adolf Ernst of Limburg Stirum
  Adolf Ernst of Limburg Stirum, count of Limburg Stirum, sovereign lord zu Gemen, son of Hermann Otto I of Limburg-Styrum.Adolf Ernst inherited the immediate lordship of Gemen at the death of his father in 1644, creating the Limburg-Styrum-Gemen branch of the family...
  
  , count of Limburg Styrum, Sovereign Lord of Gemen
  Gemen
  Gemen was an immediate, sovereign lordship of the Holy Roman Empire, in the Lower Rhine region. Since Gemen had a vote in the Imperial Diet it was also an Imperial Estate. It was centered on Gemen, a small town and castle in the present municipality of Borken, western North Rhine-Westphalia.Gemen...
  
   (died 1657);

• Moritz
  Moritz of Limburg
  Moritz of Limburg Stirum was the son of Hermann Otto I of Limburg-Styrum.He was count of Limburg and Bronkhorst, Lord zu Styrum, Wisch, Borculo and Gemen. He became hereditary banneret of the Principality of Guelders and of the County of Zütphen...
  
  , count of Limburg and Bronkhorst, Lord of Styrum, Wisch, Borculo and Gemen, hereditary banneret of the Principality of Guelders and of the County of Zutphen; and

• Sophie Elisabeth (died 1686), who married Count Ferdinand Gottfried von Vehlen und Meggen.

Military career

Hermann Otto served in the armies of the Dutch Republic

Dutch Republic

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. He commanded Christian of Brunswick's rearguard at the Battle of Stadtlohn

Battle of Stadtlohn

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 (1623) and the Dutch cavalry at the Siege of Groenlo (1627)

Siege of Groenlo (1627)

The Siege of Grol in 1627 was a battle between the Army of the Dutch Republic commanded by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and the Spanish controlled fortified city of Grol , during the Eighty Years War in 1627. The Spanish army led by Hendrik van den Bergh came to relieve Grol, but it came too...

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