Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich Freyherr CLOUDT II and Von Elisabet Magdalena Marquerite KINSKY
Husband Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich Freyherr CLOUDT II 6
Born: - 1667 6 Baptized: Died: - 1739 6 Buried:
Father: Von Pelden G. Wyrich Adolph CLOUDT Drost ( - ) 6 Mother: Von Anna Sophia HUNNEPEL \G.\ \VON \DER \IMPEL ( - ) 6
Marriage: - 1695
Wife Von Elisabet Magdalena Marquerite KINSKY 6
Born: - 1676 6 Baptized: Died: - 1738 6 Buried:
Father: Von Borchard Wilhelm KINSKY ( - ) 6 Mother: Von Gertrude Ignace LUXEMBOURG ( - ) 6
Children
1 M Von Unknown CLOUDT 6,191
Born: - Aft 1695 6 Baptized: Died: - Bef 1738 6 Buried:
2 M Von Unknown CLOUDT 6,191
Born: - Aft 1695 6 Baptized: Died: - Bef 1738 6 Buried:
3 M Von Unknown CLOUDT 6,191
Born: - Aft 1695 6 Baptized: Died: - Bef 1738 6 Buried:
4 M Von Unknown CLOUDT 6,191
Born: - Aft 1695 6 Baptized: Died: - Bef 1738 6 Buried:
5 F Von Henrietta Elisabet Wilhelmina CLOUDT Lady 6,186
Born: - Bef 1701 6 Baptized: Died: - Aft 1740 6 Buried:Spouse: Sir Captain Von STECHOW ( - ) 6,185 Marr: Bet 1716 And 1738
6 M President Von Reinhard Henrich Bertram Vincent CLOUDT 6
Born: - 1702 6 Baptized: Died: - 1 Apr 1770 6 Buried:
7 F Von Charlotte CLOUDT 6
Born: - Abt 1704 6 Baptized: Died: - 1786 6 Buried:
8 M Von Pelden G. Mauritz Godfried CLOUDT 6
Born: - 1706 6 Baptized: Died: - 12 Feb 1793 6 Buried: 18 Feb 1793 - Lauersfort 6Spouse: Von Vincentia Wilhelmina KINSKY ( -1816) 6,142 Marr: 27 Sep 1754 - Evangelisch Kirche, Moers, Rheinland, Prueussen 6
9 M Von Jost Franz Borchard CLOUDT 6
Born: - 1708 6 Baptized: Died: - 1739 6 Buried:
10 M Von Johan Vincent Emilius Philip Carl CLOUDT 6
Born: - 1711 6 Baptized: Died: 1746 - Battle At Raucourt 6 Buried:Spouse: Von E. I. NUNNUM Lady ( - ) 6
11 M Von Wilhelm Adolph Johan CLOUDT Baron 6
Born: - Abt 1712 6 Baptized: Died: 1750 - Ijpern 6 Buried:Spouse: Johanna MACALESTER ( - ) 6,161 Marr: 1742
12 F Von Maria Catharine Sophia Charlotta CLOUDT 6
Born: - 1713 6 Baptized: Died: - 1786 6 Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Jost Wyrich II was now the only seignior and sole heir of all the estates acquired by good marriages and by so many side cases in the past generations. His property was, therefore, very considerable. He sold Hoogbuirloon and Schardepot, because both estates were situated too far away. In 1695 he married Elisabet Magdalena Margareta, eldest daughter of Baron Borchard Wilhelm von Kinsky zu Chinitz and Tettau and Gertrude Ignace von Luxembourg, heiress of Baetenborg, Stein, Hollogne, Buzin, and Faillon, according to the marriage contract. See Enclosure No. 56.
Jost Wyrich von Cloudt refused, as long as he could, to render homage to the Prussian dynasty. That was useless swimming against the current and unpolitical. All the more as, on the part of Prussia, they tried to make a friend of him by fair means and by all kinds of offers. They are said to even have offered him the position of "Ober-Jagermeister" of Cleve and Mark. Such stubborness was, of course, of disadvantageous consequences; for, then, everything was picked out by the officials to be prejudicial to him and to implicate him in lawsuits. He and, perhaps chiefly, his wife, more than he himself - as she is said to have been of a very uneasy disposition - were moreover subject to end even unimportant matters only by circumstantialities connected with the lawsuit. Therefore, the advocates held a rich harvest with them...
Moreover, Jost Wyrich got entangled in an expensive lawsuit, of my years' duration, with the community of Schaephausen regarding the immunity from taxes of some farms and landed estates belonging to Bloemersheim, but situated in the Gueldrian territory. It is true that much had been bought from that community and even free from taxes. However, that could not come off successfully: firstly, the confirmation of the sovereign was missing; and secondly, it was against the Geldrian Constititution, according to which nobody, not even the princely domains, had the privilege of immunity from taxes. He lost that lawsuit, and he had to lose it. They were willing, however, to give everything back to him if he would pay 200 to 300 Rthlr., because of the debts still due, and if he would pay the taxes for it in the future. He refused that offer. The farms were added to the domains and, in the end, Bloemersheim therby lost 12,000 Rthlr. of its capital value.
In 1710 Jost Wyrich went to Bad Ems where he made use of the medical springs. In 1713 he had to go to Berlin to be present at the funeral of King Frederick I. At this funeral, one member of the provincial diet of each province had to take part. His wife accompanied him there.
In 1720 he presented his genealogical tree of 16 ancestors at Bonn. From the fragments still in existence, it can be taken that this matter also had been fought out connected with a lawsuit; and that the matter had been started at the wrong end. A certain Hagenberg at Cleve who, as a hobbyist, had a good genealogical knowledge and who, judging from his letters, knew the Clout archives rather well, helped and supported [the case] much and gave good advice. It seems, however, that his advice had been badly followed. Instead of searching for the old genealogical trees of Spee, Bocholt, Overheyd, Portzen, and Luxembourg, which must have been confirmed by oath at Dusseldorf, Bonn, Luttich, and with the Knights of Malta; and, in whose genealogical trees the coat of arms of the von Cloudt family also must have been confirmed by oath; and, instead of clinging to those, they left that sure and shortest way; and, they got the idea into their heads to demonstrate the truth by attestations from the book of tournaments, by old tombstones, and the like - even by responses of so called famous jurists. All the "responsa Juris" by universities and jurists are worthless in themselves. The money for it is as good as thrown away. No referee pays attention to these, and he does not even read them. The Bonn States were not at all against him; and, they couldn't even be so, since their families were nearly all allied with the von Cloudt family; and the latter were well know to them from their own archives. The proof which they requested could, however, have been demonstrated cheaply and very easily; but, Jost Wyrich either did not know his own archives, or he was not willing to make use of it. In his genealogical tree, there was not a single coat of arms which had not been confirmed by oath at Bonn. Therefore, there was no need for him to procure a special attestation for each coat of arms. Thereby, he could have saved time and expenses. Indeed, he had generally proved the affiliation by marriage contracts; but, the proof regarding the last four coats of arms of the superior line Droste, Ripperda, Raesvelt, and Twickel was missing. Regarding those four, he could have gotten information at Munster, if he had wanted to. Then he said, in his directory, that he could present only a copy of the marriage contract between Henrich von Hunnepel and Anna Schalll von Bell; and, also, only a copy of that between Wilhelm von Haes and Anna von Bernsau; and, even less, because the von Haes and von Droste zu Stegen families had died out; and their heirs could hardly communicate to him the marriage contract in question, or even wouldn't be willing to do so. Only from old church shields, would he be able to prove that those ancestors were appertaining to him. However, if he had known his archive, or if the advocates had known to use the documents, the proof would have resulted form a partition agreement of 1566, made out on parchment with four well preserved seals appended to it. That said Henrich von Hunnepel was a son of Wilhelm, seignior of Bloemersheim, and Irmgart von Barich; and, that Anna, the wife of said Henrich, was the daughter of Henrich Schall von Bell zu Morrenhoven and Elisabet von Hal named Effern. This was the same as in the marriage contract of 1601 between Adolph Haes zu Sollbruggen and Wilhelma Schall von and zu Bell, which also still exists in original. One would have found the proof that said Adolph was the son of Wilhelm Haes zu Conratzheim and Anna von Bernsau, and that Wilhelma was the daughter of Erasmi Schall von and Zu Bell and Wilhelma von Wachtendonck. However, what are the best documents useful for, if one doesn't know how to use and combine them? Besides, it had not been stated in which of the genealogical trees the coat of arms of the Cloudt family was confirmed by oath. If only it had been said, incidentally, that it was at Luttich by Luxembourg. However, they deemed it superflous to procure an attestation thereof from the body of knights at Luttich. In this genealogical tree, which can be found among the enclosures, also are stated, at each generation, the documents which prove each affiliation; and, which, indeed, are still to be found in the archives in order to show how the genealogical tree had to be proved. What can be carried out even now was surely easier to ascertain 100 years ago. Whether methodically judicial or rather fabulous, one might adhere to the sentence that by presentation of the attestations, the rank of real nobility had been sufficiently proved and the confirmation by oath should take place accordingly. One had still written to and fro up until 1726. However, the body of knights at Bonn had another practice. They let the matter rest, and there can't be found any trace showing that anything had been done about it after 1726.
Jost Wyrich died in 1739 at the age of 72 years. His wife, Elisabet Magdalena Marguerite, had died one year before, in 1738, in her 62nd year of age. In their marriage they had begotten 14 children in all: namely, ten sons and four daughters. Five sons and two daughters died before their parents. Three of the same group are buried at Capellen. Jost Franz Borchard died at the age of 31 shortly after the death of his father. Therefore, there were only two daughters and four sons living to inherit the ancestral family legacy. Accordingly, there were still alive and succeeded their parents: Henrietta Wilhelmina Elisabet, married von Stechow; Reinhard Henrich Bertram Vincent; Mauritz Godfried; Vincent Emilius Philip Carl; Maria Catharina Sophia Charlotta; and Wilhelm Adolph Johan. As far as one can go back through the documents, the case had not come to pass that there were four sons at the same time in one generation. On the contrary, the family had always been relying on one head as, whenever there was another son, that one died unmarried. The consequence thereof was, unfortunately, that by a partition, the family had to lose their old splendor and welfare. 6,192
General Notes (Wife)
Lady von Clout zu Lauersfort 6,31
General Notes for Child President Von Reinhard Henrich Bertram Vincent CLOUDT
Secondly, Reinhard Henrich Bertram Vincent, seignior at Lauersfort, gave himself up to the civil service. He and his brother, Mauritz Godfried studied from 1724 to 1728 at Giessen. This university at that time, was attended almost exclusively by the nobility of the Reich. Thereupon, he was given an appointment as a councillor of the government. In the newly organized government at Moers, the King appointed him vice-president in 1749; and, some years later, he became chief of that government. Moreover, he was a member of the executive committee for the representation of the country at Geldern. During the Seven Years' War, he had render an essential service to the country, because he knew how to ingratiate himself with the French body of generals; however, also to make himself respected and to gain esteem. From his sister, Lady von Stechow, he bought the Manor House Impel, with its dependencies, which was situated in the city. He restored the house at great expense, fitted it up according to the latest style, and furnished all the many and spacious apartments, for which he gave work to a guilder for more than one year. He was a passionate hunter. During his last years, his health was ruined by paralytic strokes which were repeated five or six times. From the first one, he had recovered. Then, however, he remained entirely paralyzed on his right side and went with crutches. About one year before his death, when having another paralytic stroke, he lost his speech, which he could not regain. He died, unmarried, on April 1, 1770, at the age of 68. With the exception of some legations; namely, 1,000 Rthlr. in favor of his sister's children, those von Stechow; 300 Rthlr. in favor of the "Gymnasium" [the public school]; and 200 Rthlr. in favor of the poor, he had appointed the brother next to him as his sole heir... 6,193
General Notes for Child Von Charlotte CLOUDT
Fourthly, the other sister, Maria Cathar. sophia Charlotta, lived with her brother, the President, whom she liked very much. However, yearly she paid to him a certain amount for herself, her chambermaid, and a servant. Educated in The Hague and by association with high life, she had gained much insight into human character. The relationships with her were very agreeable because of her being well-bred and of a very keen mind. Her brother, the President, bequeathed to her House Impel with all the furniture therein, as her usufruct for life, with the exception of the silverware and the linen. She remained living there, kept her own carriage, lived quite in keeping with her rank, and kept a good house. But she could never pardon her brother, Mauritz Godfried, that he alone succeeded at Lauersfort; for, ever since then, she had had the idea that the President would appoint her and her brother, heirs of equal parts. Therefore, some indifference came up between them. They were, however, on friendly terms but met very seldom and only on exceptional occasions when etiquette required so. In her testament she left out her brother, whom she otherwise had always liked so much, and appointed her sole heirs: two children of her sister, Chanoisse von Stechow zu Quernheim, whom she already always had had with her during the lifetime of the President; the Canon and Postmaster von Stechow; and the son of her youngest brother, Baron von Cloudt zu Vercken. However, after her death, the share of the canoness should revert to the two other heirs. Five of her nieces, who went by her name, Charlotta, got a donation in linen; and each of them [also received] 10 to 12 pounds in silverware. She had never married and died in 1786 at the age of 73 years. As a result of the partition of 1740, she had greatly improved her estates, which she had received at a very low rate, and which had lain partly uncultivated. She had also bought much from her sister, the Lady von Stechow. Her inheritance amounted to about 50,000 Rthlr. 6,165
General Notes for Child Von Pelden G. Mauritz Godfried CLOUDT
Sixthly, the second son of Jost Wyrich, Mauritz Godfried von Pelden named Cloudt, seignior at Bloemersheim, had studied at Giessen until 1728. His brother, the President, had also studied there. In 1730 he entered Dutch services. He first served with the dragoons at Wassenaer; then [he served] in 1739, as a lieutenant of the von Kinschot regiment. He took part in the campaigns against the French in Brabant. He took part in the siege of Ostende in 1745. At Mons he was taken prisoner and escorted to France where Semour en Auxois had been assigned to those prisoners for their stay. However, most of that time he lived on furlough in Paris; and, still, up to his old age, he remembered that stay in France with pleasure. After the Peace of Aachen in 1748, he came back from France. During that time of prisonership, the States General had filled the posts of officers in the regiments. The officers coming back from prisonership requested to be reinstalled according to their seniority and were not willing to server under officers who were of lesser seniority in rank than they were. The States General could not, or would not, do so. Therefore, the officers thus slighted, who had enough for themselves to live on, quit the service. Among them was Mauritz Godfried. They offered to reinstall him with a company. However, he declined and quit the service in 1750. If he could have remained in commission, he would have become the eldest Dutch general and Governor of Hertzogenbusch or Maestricht, which would have provided him with an annual income of at least 20,000 Gulden.
During the Seven Years' War, he did the best possible in the interests of the country with patriotic ardor and activity. During those wayr years, he was usually absent from home. At one time he was also held hostage. As a deputy of the Provincial Diet, he was a member of the Administrative committee of the country. This committee was composed of representatives of the diet, of the government, and of the upper chamber. Therefore, he very often was residing at Cleve; but, as a deputy of the Provincial Diet, he was also often at Hannover, at Dusseldorf, and elsewhere, sometimes with the French army, sometimes with the Allied army.
During the Seven Years' War, he did the best possible in the interests of the country with patriotic ardor and activity. During those war years, he was usually absent from home. At one time he was also held hostage. As a deputy of the Provincial Diet, he was a member of the Administrative committee of the country. This committee was composed of representatives of the diet, of the government, and the upper chamber. Therefore, he very often was residing at Cleve; but, as a deputy of the Provincial Diet, he was also often at Hannover, at Dusseldorf, and elsewhere, sometimes with the French army, sometimes with the Allied army.
Finally, in 1754, in his 48th year of age, he married Vincentia Wilhelmina, daughter of Franz Fridr. Baron von Kinsky zu Stein and Tervoort, President of the Administrative District of Moers, and Anna Baroness von Haeften zu Verwolde. The marriage contract had already been arranged and prepared in 1752.
Mauritz Godfried had chosen his last resting place behind the garden at Lauersforth, in a small wood of fir trees formerly planted by him. HHere he had had made a brick grave, with a big Germanic barrow above it, as the future family vault. He spent many an hour of his last days of life here in seclusion and medication. He died on February 12, 1793, in his 87th year of age, from pectoral dropsy from which he had suffered extremely during the last two months of his life. The intense uneasiness did not allow him to lie down; and, sitting in a chair, he had to spend sleepless days and nights. That was the reason that he spent the last fortnight without consciousness and in delirium. His mortal frame was put in the new vault, [in a manner] suitable to his rank, under torchlight, in the evening of February 18th. [1793]
Mauritz Godfried had begotten with his wife 15 children; however, four of whom had died during the first years of their lives. He was a generous, active, and upright man of great judgment, acquainted with the ways of the world and of knowledge of human nature. Unflaggingly, he bestowed care on prosperity, preservation, and splendor of his family. However, all his care and his good intentions had been thwarted by his spoiled children; and [he was] server with ingratitude. The last nine years of his life had, therefore, been a tissue of sorrow, grief, and displeasure. He should have deserved a better fate; and, deeply distressed, he had to lay his gray head in the grave.
May he rest in peace. 6,194,195,196
General Notes for Child Von Jost Franz Borchard CLOUDT
Jost Franz Borchard died at the age of 31 shortly after the death of his father. [which occured in 1739] 6
General Notes for Child Von Johan Vincent Emilius Philip Carl CLOUDT
Thirdly, the third brother, Johan Vincent Emilius Philip Carl, seignior at Sollbruggen, was in Dutch military service. He had married Lady E. I. von Nunnum named Ducker from Aldenhof, from a good old family; however, without means. She converted to the Protestant Church. He fell in the Battle at Raucourt in 1746, in his 35th year of age, and left only two daughters. After the death of her husband, the widow resided with her two children at Moers until 1754, when, one night, she stole away with her children and fled to the Monastery of Neuwerck, reconverting to the Roman Catholic Church. They intended to make her come back, or, at the least, to deliver the children to the relatives. That caused a great deal of circumstantial correspondence and badly advised and useless remonstrances on the part of the President, with Berlin and Bonn. The eldest of those daughters, Henriette, heiress at Solbruggen, married during the Seven Years' War, a French officer, Bartholomaeus du Prat, from which marriage several children are alive. The parents sold the Sollbruggen Estate. The other daughter, Charlotta, was married to Johan Friederich Freyherr von Weyenhorst zur Dunck. 6,189
General Notes for Child Von Wilhelm Adolph Johan CLOUDT Baron
Fifthly, the fourth and youngest brother, Wilhelm Adolph Johan, had also served in the Dutch army. He had acquired the feudal estates of Harbus and Vowinckler, which his son sold later for 24,000 Rthlr., after having received them in the partition with his two sisters. Said Wilhelm Adolph was the first Cloudt who was misallied by marrying, in 1742, a certain Johanna Macalester, daughter of the Scottish Lieutenant. This was very annoying to the family. He died of a virulent fever at Ijpern in 1750, and left one son and two daughters, who came under the guardianship of the President. Perhaps that guardianship also had much influence on the education of those children. Not all the merit can be withheld from the widowed mother therein. On the contrary, it must be said in her praise that she did not try to let their children have a middle-class education, but educated them in accordance with the principles of birth and rank of their deceased father. She, herself, lived and entirely kept to her husband's rank, to which the marriage had raised her. Wiselyh, however, she knew to avoid that intolerable and inconvenient pride which so easily comes to pass in such unequal marriages. If the mother does not go from one extreme to the other: namely, educating her children according to the manners and customs of the middle class; and, then, generally trying early to inspire indifference in them and, perhaps, even disdain of the privileges of birth. Therefore, she had been liked and esteemed by all classes. She lived several years with her son-in-law, the later General von Scholer at Wesel, where she also died. She had two brothers who had died as colonels in Dutch service. Later on, they wished to furnish proof that the Macalester descended from the old Scottish kings. That was, however, quite ineffective, since the children, thereby, couldn't be made capitulars. The two daughters had been brought up in Holland where there were, at that time, the best educational establishments of young ladies of rank. Therefore, they had received a very good education, in accordance with their rank.
Died of virulent fever. 6,161
General Notes for Child Von Maria Catharine Sophia Charlotta CLOUDT
Fourthly, the other sister, Maria Cathar. Sophia Charlotta, lived with her brother, the President, whom she liked very much. However, yearly she paid to him a certain amount for herself, her chambermaid, and a servant. Educated in The Hague and by association with high life, she had gained much insight into human character. The relationships with her were very agreeable because of her being well-bred and of a very keen mind. Her brother, the President, bequeathed to her House Impel with all the furniture, therein, as her usufruct for life, with the exception of the silverware and the linen. She remained living there, kept her own carriage, lived quite in keeping with her rank, and kept a good house. But she could never pardon her brother, Mauritze Godfried, that he alone succeeded at Lauersfort; for, ever since then, she had had the idea that the President would appoint her and her brother, heirs of equal parts. Therefore, some indifference came up between them. They were, however, on friendly terms but met very seldom and only on exceptional occasions when etiquette required so. In her testament she left out her brother, who she otherwise had always liked so much, and appointed her sole heirs: two children of her sister, Chanoisse von Stechow zu Quernheim, whom she already always had had with her during the lifetime of the President; the Canon and Postmaster von Stechow; and the son of her youngest brother, Baron von Cloudt zu Vercken. However, after her death, the share of the canoness should revert to the two other heirs. Five of her nieces, who went by her name, Charlotta, got a donation in linen; and each of them [also received] 10 to 12 pounds in silverware. She had never married and died in 1786 at the age of 73 years. As a result of the partition of 1740, she had greatly improved her estates, which she had received at a very low rate, and which had lain partly uncultivated. She had also bought much from her sister, the Lady von Stechow. Her inheritance amount to about 50,000 Rthlr. 6,197
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