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Scheidt
Scheidt may refer to the following: People with the surname * Edward Scheidt (born 1939), American cryptographer and ex-Chairman of the CIA Cryptographic Center * Gottfried Scheidt (1593–1661), German Baroque composer and brother of Samuel Scheidt * Hans-Wilhelm Scheidt (1907-1981), German Nazi official * Mathias Scheidt, Archbishop of Vienna (1490–1493) * Mike Scheidt, American metal vocalist * Rafael Scheidt (born 1976), Brazilian footballer * Robert Scheidt (born 1973), Brazilian sailor * Samuel Scheidt (1587–1654), German Baroque composer and brother of Gottfried Scheidt * Rorich von Scheidt (1518–1585), German nobleman as the Lord of Scheidt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Scheidt, Bröl, Lohmar, Fussberg, Buisdorf, Etzenbach, Hönscheid, Hülscheid, and Schöneberg, Bad Kreuznach, Schöneberg *Wilhelm von Scheid, Wilhelm Heinrich von Scheidt (1535–1611), Lord of Rötzingshofen from 1596–1611, Imperial Count Palatine of Solingen, Burg, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Burg, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lords Von Scheidt Genannt Weschpfennig
The lords von Scheidt genannt Weschpfennig were an ancient Germany, German noble family, who resided in the Duchy of Berg, Bergi county. They were elevated to the rank of baron on 27 January 1642. Origin The von Scheidt genannt Weschpfennig clan had originated near Scheidt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Scheidt, and spread in the area of Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Jülich since the fourteenth century. They are said to have participated in the battle of Worringen in 1288 as allies of the count of Berg. They acquired a property in Scheid near Ruppichteroth in the middle of the 14th century, called themselves von Scheidt, with the addition of "Weschpfennig". Further acquisitions of property were added in Ruppichteroth, Wingenbach, Rötzingshofen, Broel, Saurenbach, castle Freusburg near Betzdorf, Germany, Betzdorf and Schloss Heltorf, castle Heltorf in Angermund above Düsseldorf. History The first recorded person in the Scheidt/Scheyde gt. Weschpfennig family line is Johann vame Scheyde gehei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Scheidt
Edward Michael Scheidt is a retired Chairman of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Cryptographic Center and the designer of the cryptographic systems used in the ''Kryptos'' sculpture at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Early life Scheidt was born July 20, 1939, in San Bernardino County. He graduated in 1957 from Cor Jesu High School in New Orleans and then joined the Army, where he worked in Signals Intelligence. CIA In 1963, he was hired as a communications officer for the CIA, in the Office of Communications, which began a 26-year career, after which he retired in December 1989. Scheidt spent 12 years posted overseas, including serving in Vientiane from 1963, Damascus and Tel Aviv from 1966 to 1968, Manila from 1971 to 1973, and Athens from 1978 to 1980. Most often he used one-time pad paper systems of encryption. Scheidt received a B.A. in business administration from the University of Maryland in 1970 and an M.S. in telecommunications from George Washington U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Count Palatine
An imperial count palatine (, ) was an official in the Holy Roman Empire with quasi-monarchical ("palatine") powers. In all, over 5,000 imperial counts palatine were created between the 14th and 18th centuries.John Flood (2002), "Neglected Heroines? Women Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire", ''Bulletin of the John Rylands Library'', 84(3): 25–47, at 29. The office was hereditary in perpetuity in the legitimate male line.Paul F. Grendler, The Universities of the Italian Renaissance' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), p. 183ff. History The office originated in the Lombard kingdom in Italy (c.575–774), where the kings appointed officials with the title ''comes palatii'' (count of the palace) and power to act in the king's absence. The office was retained in Italy under the Carolingians after 774 and under the Ottonians after 961. The Emperor Otto III is known to have appointed a large number of counts palatine. The title for a count palatine gradually grew in length, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchy Of Berg
Berg () was a state—originally a county, later a duchy—in the Rhineland of Germany. Its capital was Düsseldorf. It existed as a distinct political entity from the early 12th to the 19th centuries. It was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire. The name of the county lives on in the modern geographic term Bergisches Land, often misunderstood as ''bergiges Land'' (hilly country). History Ascent The Counts of Berg emerged in 1101 as a junior line of the dynasty of the Ezzonen, which traced its roots back to the 9th-century Kingdom of Lotharingia, and in the 11th century became the most powerful dynasty in the region of the lower Rhine. In 1160, the territory split into two portions, one of them later becoming the County of the Mark, which returned to the possession of the family line in the 16th century. The most powerful of the early rulers of Berg, Engelbert II of Berg died in an assassination on November 7, 1225. In 1280 the counts moved their court from Schloss Burg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchy Of Jülich
The Duchy of Jülich (; ; ) comprised a state within the Holy Roman Empire from the 11th to the 18th centuries. The duchy lay west of the Rhine river and was bordered by the Electorate of Cologne to the east and the Duchy of Limburg to the west. It had territories on both sides of the river Rur, around its capital Jülich – the former Roman ''Iuliacum'' – in the lower Rhineland. The duchy amalgamated with the County of Berg beyond the Rhine in 1423, and from then on also became known as ''Jülich-Berg''. Later it became part of the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Its territory lies in present-day Germany (part of North Rhine-Westphalia) and in the present-day Netherlands (part of the Limburg province), its population sharing the same Limburgish dialect. History County In the 9th century a certain Matfried was count of Jülich (pagus Juliacensis). The first mention of a count in the gau of Jülich in Lower Lorraine, is Gerhard I, in 1003; his grandson Gerhar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip William, Elector Palatine
Philip William of Neuburg, Elector Palatine () (24 November 1615 – 2 September 1690) was Count Palatine of Neuburg from 1653 to 1690, Duchy of Jülich, Duke of Jülich and Berg (German region), Berg from 1653 to 1679 and Electorate of the Palatinate, Elector of the Palatinate from 1685 to 1690. He was the son of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg and Magdalene of Bavaria. Life In 1685, with the death of his Protestant cousin, the Karl II, Elector Palatine, Elector Palatine Charles II, Philip William inherited the Electorate of the Palatinate, which thus switched from a Protestant to a Catholic territory. Charles II's sister, now the Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans and Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV's sister-in-law, also claimed the Palatinate. This was the pretext for the French invasion in 1688, which began the Nine Years War. Marriages Philip William married twice. He first married Princess Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, daughter of Sigis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in History of Europe, European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. Related conflicts include the Eighty Years' War, the War of the Mantuan Succession, the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659), Franco-Spanish War, the Torstenson War, the Dutch-Portuguese War, and the Portuguese Restoration War. The war had its origins in the 16th-century Reformation, which led to religious conflict within the Holy Roman Empire. The 1555 Peace of Augsburg attempted to resolve this by dividing the Empire into Catholic and Lutheran states, but the settlement was destabilised by the subsequent expansion of Protestantism beyond these boundaries. Combined with differences over the limits of imperial authority, religion was thus an important factor in star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
Ferdinand III (Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Archduke of Austria, Kingdom of Hungary, King of Hungary and Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Croatia from 1625, Kingdom of Bohemia, King of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death. Ferdinand ascended the throne at the beginning of the last decade of the Thirty Years' War and introduced lenient policies to depart from the old ideas of Divine right of kings, divine right held by his father, as he wished to end the war quickly. After military defeats and against a background of declining power, Ferdinand was compelled to abandon the political stances of his Habsburg predecessors in many respects to open the long road towards the much-delayed Peace of Westphalia. Although his authority as emperor was weakened after the war, his position in Bohemia, Hungary and Austria was stronger than that of his predecessors before 1618. Ferdinand was the first Habsburg monarch to be recognised as a musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Bilkrath
House Bilkrath (''German:'' Haus Bilkrath, ''Old German:'' Hof Pilkrath) is a medieval fortified house on the Anger in the Düsseldorf district of Angermund, just a few hundred meters south of Heltorf Castle. History Bilkrath appears as early as 1332 as Pelichrad,1402 as Peylcheroyde and 1407 as Peillichrade. The suffix -rath, -royde or -rade indicates that the house was built on cleared land. The name stem is traced back to the personal name Billig. The 1402 source shows that the lords of Kalkum were the owners of Bilkrath towards the end of the 14th century. For example, Johann von Caelchem von Peylcheroyde, who was executed by the city of Cologne a long time ago in 1402 and whose execution was one of the triggers of the Kalkum feuds, is mentioned. Prior to this, Johann's (great) grandfather Hermann von Kalkum, bailiff of Angermund, is said to have had his residence in Bilkrath as early as 1312. In the first half of the 15th century, Gerhard van der Brüggen, judge in Angerm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schloss Heltorf
Heltorf Castle (German: ''Schloß Heltorf'') is a water castle located in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. First mentioned in the 11th century as ''Hof Helethorpe'', the castle has a history tied to noble families such as the Lords of Heldorp, the von Troisdorf family, the von Scheidt Barons, and the Counts of Spee, who still own it today. The castle's current mansion was constructed in the early 19th century in the classicist style, featuring notable frescoes depicting scenes from the reign of Frederick Barbarossa. Surrounded by a 54-hectare English landscape park designed by in 1803, Schloss Heltorf is known for its rare rhododendron plantings (second-oldest in Germany) and annual open-air Marian celebration. While the castle itself is not open to the public, the park welcomes visitors from May to October on weekends and public holidays. Heltorf is the biggest palace in Düsseldorf, since 1662, and serves as the homestead of the noble family ''Grafen von Spee.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troisdorf
Troisdorf () is a city in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (district), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Troisdorf is located approximately 22 kilometers south of Cologne and 13 kilometers north east of Bonn. Division of the city Troisdorf consists of 12 districts (population as of April 2014): * Troisdorf-Mitte (16,414 inhabitants) * Altenrath (2,292 inhabitants) * Bergheim (5,750 inhabitants) * Eschmar (3,078 inhabitants) * Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte (7,161 inhabitants) * Kriegsdorf (3,129 inhabitants) * Müllekoven (1,793 inhabitants) * Oberlar (6,100 inhabitants) * Rotter See (3,918 inhabitants) * Sieglar (8,668 inhabitants) * Spich (12,765 inhabitants) * West (5,367 inhabitants) : Total: 76,435 inhabitants History Troisdorf became a free city in 1952. In 1969, the urban area expanded with the annexation of the township of Sieglar and the villages of Altenrath and Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte (total population in 1969: about 51,000). The first large settlements in this area go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Bertram Von Scheid
Johann Bertram Baron von Scheidt genannt Weschpfennig zu Heltorf (b. November 16, 1580 Heltorf Castle; † June 4, 1662 Düsseldorf) was a German baron who was also Lord of Scheid, Schönenberg, Herrenbröl, Troisdorf, Heltorf, and Bilkerath. He was bailiff, director of the Bergisch Landtag and Obersthofmeister (Grand Master of the Court). Johann Bertram was involved in the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), serving under the Palatine Count Wolfgang Wilhelm. His mission involved political negotiations and communication between leaders, most notably, the Swedish general Buadissin. In 1642, he became the first member of the von Scheidt’s to hold the rank of baron, and was elevated to the position for his service to Emperor Ferdinand III. Life Johann Bertram von Scheid was the son of Imperial Count Palatine Wilhelm von Scheid genannt Weschpfennig, which made him the grandson of Rorich von Scheidt. He inherited the noble estates of Scheid, Bröl (Herrenbröl), Trois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
