Jobst Hermann von Holstein-Schaumburg (6 October 1593 at Gemen Castle in Borken – 5 November 1635 in

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) was a member of the

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Life

His parents were Henry V, Count of Schaumburg and

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(d. 1606), from a collateral line of the

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 municipal ...

family tree, and Countess Matilda of Limburg-Styrum (1561–1622), a daughter of Count Hermann Georg of Limburg. In 1622, he became Count of Schaumburg and Lord of Gemen. Although he was raised as a Catholic, he made no attempt to change the religious denomination of his territories. During the

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, he had little opportunity to influence events; however he succeeded in protecting his Lordship of Gemen from the worst oppression by imperial and Hessian troops.

Inheritance

He married Catherine Sophia (1577–1665), daughter of

Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, nicknamed ''the Younger'', or ''the Famous'' (25 September 1528, in Celle – 26 October 1603, in Harburg) was from 1549 until his death the Duke of Brunswick- Harburg. Life Otto was the eldest son of t ...

, but the marriage was childless, and when he died in 1635, a succession dispute broke out between the families of Holstein-Schaumburg and Limburg-Styrum in relation to the immediate Lordship of

. His aunt, Countess Agnes of Limburg-Styrum, who was

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of Elten,

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, Borghorst Abbey and Freckenhorst won the dispute and shortly afterwards transferred Gemen to her nephew

Hermann Otto I of Limburg-Styrum Hermann Otto I of Limburg-Styrum, count of Hagen-Hohenlimburg, Limburg and Bronckhorst, lord of Styrum, Gemen, Wisch (Gelderland), Wisch and Borculo, and from 1640 to 1644 advocate of the imperial abbey of Vreden, was born in 1592, and died on 17 O ...

, a wealthy man who had a successful career as a

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in the Dutch cavalry. When he died in 1644, he left Gemen to his second son, Adolf Ernst, who married Isabella, the daughter of Count Alexander of Velen-Meggen-Raesfeld. Adolf Ernst unsuccessfully attempted to reintroduce Catholicism in Gemen.

References

* Helge Bei der Wieden: ''Schaumburgische Genealogie. Stammtafeln der Grafen von Holstein und Schaumburg - auch Herzöge von Schleswig - bis zu ihrem Aussterben 1640'', 2nd revised edition, Melle,1999

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