The following is a list of lords and later on margraves of

Bergen op Zoom Bergen op Zoom (; called ''Berrege'' in the local dialect) is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands. Etymology The city was built on a place where two types of soil meet: sandy soil and marine clay. The sandy soil p ...

. Bergen op Zoom became separated from the

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Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

in 1287 under the nominal overlordship of the

duchy of Brabant The Duchy of Brabant was a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries, part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Neth ...

. In 1559 the lordship was elevated to the rank of margraviate. The title was only a nominal one until 1795 when it was abolished.

Lords of Bergen op Zoom

House Wezemaal

*Gerard 1287-1309 *Arnold 1309-1313 *Mathilde 1313-1340

House Voorne

*Johanna 1340-1349

House Boutershem

*Hendrik I 1351-1371 *Hendrik II 1371-1419 *Hendrik III 1419

House of Glyme The House of Glymes was a Belgian nobility, noble house of Belgium, of descendants of a bastard branch of the Dukes of Brabant. Glymes or Glimes is a municipality of Incourt, Belgium, Incourt. Their descendants of the branch of Grimberghen are s ...

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John II of Glymes John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

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John III of Glymes John III, Lord of Bergen op Zoom or John III of Glymes (1452 – 1532, in Brussels) was a noble from the Low Countries. He was the son of John II of Glymes and Margaret of Rouveroy and succeeded his father as Lord of Bergen op Zoom. In 1494 he ...

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Antony of Glymes Anthony of Glymes or Anton van Bergen, Lord of Grimbergen, Count of Walhain (1500–1541) was the 1st Lords and margraves of Bergen op Zoom, Margrave of Bergen (op Zoom). Family Anthony was the son of John III of Glymes and a grandson of Guy of ...

, , 1532-1541

Margraves of Bergen op Zoom (1559)

House of Glymes The House of Glymes was a noble house of Belgium, of descendants of a bastard branch of the Dukes of Brabant. Glymes or Glimes is a municipality of Incourt. Their descendants of the branch of Grimberghen are styled as the Prince de Grimberghen ...

John IV of Glymes John IV of Glymes, 2nd Marquess of Berghes (1528–1567), Grand Huntsman of Brabant, was a noble from the Low Countries. He was the son of Anthony of Glymes (1500–1541) and Jacqueline de Croÿ, sister of Philippe II de Croÿ. He succeeded his ...

1541-1567

House Merode

*Maria Margaretha 1577-1588

House of Witthem

*Maria Mencia 1588-1613

House van den Bergh

*Maria Elizabeth I 1614-1633 *Maria Elizabeth II 1635-1671

House von Hohenzollern

*Henriëtte Franzisca 1672-1698

House of La Tour d'Auvergne La Tour d'Auvergne () was a noble French dynasty. Its senior branch, extinct in 1501, held two of the last large fiefs acquired by the French crown, the counties of Auvergne and Boulogne, for about half a century. Its cadet branch, extinct in 1802, ...

* Francois Egon de La Tour d'Auvergne 1698-1708 *

Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne (Maria Anna Henriette Leopoldine; 24 October 1708 – 28 July 1728) was a noblewoman born into the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. She was the ''suo jure'' Margravine of Bergen op Zoom from 1710 at the death ...

1708-1728

House von Sulzbach

* Karl Philip Theodor 1729-1795 ----

People from Bergen op Zoom