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Albert II, Count Of Hoya
Albert II, Count of Hoya (1526 – 18 March 1563) was the ruling Count of Hoya from 1545 until his death. Life Albert was the oldest son of Count Jobst II and his wife, Anna of Gleichen. After his father died in 1545, he initially ruled jointly with his brothers Eric V and Otto VIII. In 1553, his brother stepped down and Albert ruled alone. In 1561, he married Catherine of Oldenburg. This marriage remained childless. Albert II died in 1563. Hoya was inherited by Eric V, and when he, too, died childless, by Otto VIII. The House of Hoya died out when Otto died in 1582. Catherine survived them all, and died in 1620. References * Heinrich Gade: ''Historisch-geographisch-statistische Beschreibung der Grafschaften Hoya und Diepholz'', Nienburg, 1901 * Wilhelm Hodenberg (ed.): ''Hoyer Urkundenbuch'', Hannover, 1848–1856 * Bernd Ulrich Hucker: ''Die Grafen von Hoya'', Hoya, 1993 * Museum Nienburg: ''Die Grafschaften Bruchhausen, Diepholz, Hoya und Wölpe'', Nienburg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jobst II, Count Of Hoya
Count Jobst II of Hoya (1493 – 25 April 1545) ruled the County of Hoya from 1511 until his death. Life Family He was the eldest son of Count Jobst I, Count of Hoya, Jobst I and his wife, Ermengarde of Lippe. After the early death of his father in 1507, a regency council was formed, consisting of the Count of Spiegelberg, the Lord of Diepholz and his mother. His younger brother John VII of Hoya, John VII entered into Swedish service and became governor of Vyborg. His brother Eric IV inherited the Stolzenau section of the county. His sisters Anna and Elisabeth were canonesses of Vreden Abbey and Essen Abbey. Reign After a feudalism, feudal dispute, the County of Hoya was occupied by Dukes Henry I, Duke of Lüneburg, Henry the Middle and Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Henry the Elder of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1512. Jobst and his family found refuge with Count Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, Edzard I of East Frisia. In 1519, a compromise was found and Hoya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Hoya
The County of Hoya (German: ''Grafschaft Hoya'') was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Lower Saxony. It was centered on the town of Hoya on the middle Weser river, between Bremen and Nienburg; the area now belongs to the districts of Nienburg and Diepholz. The largest city of the county was Nienburg. Geography As of 1582, Hoya was bordered by (from the north, clockwise): The City of Bremen, the Archbishopric of Bremen, the Bishopric of Verden, the Lüneburg and Calenberg subdivisions of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Bishopric of Minden, the County of Diepholz, the Bishopric of Münster, and the County of Oldenburg. History A first Count Henry at Hoya in Saxony appeared as a vassal of Archbishop Hartwig II of Bremen in 1202. He had disputes with the local Hodenberg noble family at Hodenhagen Castle over their estates on the Weser which were gradually acquired by Count Henry and his descendants until 1313. The acquisition of Nienburg led to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric V, Count Of Hoya
Eric V of Hoya (1535 – 12 March 1575) was from 1563 to 1575 Count of Hoya. Life Eric was the son of Jobst II of Hoya and Anna of Gleichen. As a younger son, Eric was initially destined for an ecclesiastical career. He was a canon of Bremen, Cologne and Strasbourg. After his older brother Albert II had died childless in 1563, Eric ruled the county of Hoya jointly with his younger brother Otto VIII. After introducing the Reformation in his territories, he issued in 1573 a Lutheran Church Order for his counties Hoya, Rietberg and Bruchhausen and the Lordships of Esens, Stedesdorf and Wittmund (in the Harlingerland). Marriage In 1568, Eric married Countess Armgard of Rietberg. At the same time, his brother Otto VIII married Armgard's mother, Agnes of Rietberg (born in Bentheim-Steinfurt). He took up the regency of the Harlingerland for his wife and her underage sister Walburgis. The sisters had inherited Harlingerland from their father, Count John II John II m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto VIII, Count Of Hoya
Otto VIII, Count of Hoya (1530 – 25 February 1582 at Hoya Castle in Hoya, Germany) was the last ruling County of Hoya, Count of Hoya. Life Otto was the third son of Count Jobst II, Count of Hoya, Jobst II and his wife Anna of Gleichen. At first, he was canon (priest), canon in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne and Diocese of Verden, Verden. After the childless death of his older brother Albert II, Count of Hoya, Albert II in 1563, Otto VIII and his brother Eric V, Count of Hoya, Eric V, took up government of the county. Otto married in 1568 to Agnes of Bentheim-Steinfurt, the widow of Count John II, Count of Rietberg, John II of Rietberg, who was also the mother of Armgard, Countess of Rietberg, Armgard, who was the wife of Otto's brother Eric. After Eric also died childless in 1575, Otto ruled the county alone. "Otto, Count of Hoya and Burghausen," signed the Formula of Concord of 1577, and the Book of Concord of 1580.See the Book of Concord, pp. 16 and 76 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counts Of Hoya
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992. p. 73. . The etymologically related English term "county" denoted the territories associated with the countship. Definition The word ''count'' came into English from the French ''comte'', itself from Latin ''comes''—in its accusative ''comitem''—meaning “companion”, and later “companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor”. The adjective form of the word is "comital". The British and Irish equivalent is an earl (whose wife is a "countess", for lack of an English term). In the late Roman Empire, the Latin title ''comes'' denoted the high rank of various courtiers and provincial officials, either military or administrative: before Anthemius became emperor in the West in 467, he was a military ''comes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1526 Births
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1563 Deaths
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