Van Hoensbroeck

Van Hoensbroeck
noble family
Country	Netherlands Germany
Founded	14th century
Founder	Nicolaes Hoen  [ nl ]
Current head	Edmund Pocius, Marquess and Count van Hoensbroeck
Titles	marquess, count, baron, etc.

The House of Hoensbroeck (in German: Hoensbroech) is the name of an old aristocratic family with medieval origins in the town of Hoensbroek near Heerlen in Limburg, Netherlands. The family is part of Dutch and German nobility.

History

Nicolaes Hoen  [ nl ] is the first known ancestor of the family; he was killed in the Battle of Baesweiler in 1371. During many centuries, the family owned and lived in Hoensbroek Castle, which can still be visited today. They played an important social and political role in the region.

In the Netherlands a comital cadet branch survives. In Germany, the elder line of the family continues to thrive as Marquis (Marquess, from the Spanish Netherlands, for the family's head) and Reichsgraf[in] (Count[ess], for each member of the family) von und zu Hoensbroech. ^[1]

Gallery

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  Hoensbroek Castle
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  Kasteel Bleijenbeek
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  Schloss Türnich
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  Schloss Haag in Geldern

Literature

• Hupp, Otto (1930). "Regensburg 1930". Münchener Kalender (in German). Munich: G.J. Manz. ASIN   B00C7E8TBE. OCLC   1065103385.
• Venne, J. M. van de; Win, J. Th H. de; Peeters, P. A. H. M. (1967). Geschiedenis van Hoensbroek (in Dutch). Hoensbroek: Gemeentebestuur van Hoensbroek. OCLC   214305323.
• Nederland's Adelsboek (in Dutch) (JGR 85 ed.). 's-Gravenhage: Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie. 1996. pp. 186–199. ISBN   90-70324-82-2. OCLC   1040062671.

References

1. Nederland's Adelsboek 85 (1995), p. 186-199 and Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 112 (1997), p. 163-187.

External links

• Von Hoensbroech family.