Limburg-Styrum-Styrum

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Limburg-Styrum-Styrum
1644 – 1806

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Styrum
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Partitioned from Limburg-Styrum 1644
Mediatised to Berg 1806
Extinct1808

Limburg-Styrum-Styrum was a County of medieval Germany, based in the Lordship of Styrum in modern North Rhine-Westphalia. Limburg-Styrum-Styrum was a partition of Limburg-Styrum in 1644. When the line of Limburg-Styrum-Iller-Aichheim became extinct in 1800, Limburg-Styrum-Styrum failed to inherit it and the Imperial Estate of Gemen, which instead passed to the Barons of Boyneburg-Bömelberg. In 1806 Limburg-Styrum-Styrum was mediatised to the Grand Duchy of Berg. The line itself became extinct in 1809.

Counts of Limburg-Styrum-Styrum (1644–1806)

Name

Reign

Moritz 1644–1664
Moritz Hermann 1664–1703
Christian Otto 1703–1749
Karl Joseph Augustus 1749–1760
Philipp Ferdinand 1760–1794
Ernst-Maria 1794–1806

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