Von Pelden G. Mauritz Godfried CLOUDT and Von Vincentia Wilhelmina KINSKY
Husband Von Pelden G. Mauritz Godfried CLOUDT 6
Born: - 1706 6 Baptized: Died: - 12 Feb 1793 6 Buried: 18 Feb 1793 - Lauersfort 6
Father: Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich Freyherr CLOUDT II ( - ) 6 Mother: Von Elisabet Magdalena Marquerite KINSKY ( - ) 6
Marriage: 27 Sep 1754 - Evangelisch Kirche, Moers, Rheinland, Prueussen 6
Noted events in his life were:• Moritz: Moritz, Aka. 6
Wife Von Vincentia Wilhelmina KINSKY 6,142
Born: - Abt 1729 6 Baptized: Died: - 1 Sep 1816 6 Buried: 4 Sep 1816 - Family Vault Outside Moers 6
Father: Von Franz Friederich KINSKY ( - ) 6 Mother: Von Anna Baroness HAEFTEN ( - ) 6
Children
1 F Von Pelden G. Louisa CLOUDT 6
Born: - Bet 1754 And 1785 6 Baptized: Died: - Feb 1794 6 Buried: - Lauersfort 6
2 F Von Helena CLOUDT 6
Born: - Bet 1754 And 1785 6 Baptized: Died: Buried:
3 M Von Pelden G. Jost Friedrich Reinhard CLOUDT Chamberlain 6
Born: 5 Oct 1755 - Germany 6 Baptized: Died: 6 Jun 1831 - Weilburg 6 Buried:Spouse: Von Brackel Zu Josephine Caroline Bernhardine Freiin [Freiherrin] BREIDTMAR ( - ) 6 Marr: 5 Sep 1785 - Lauersfort 6
4 M Von Pelden G. Ferdinand Wilhelm CLOUDT Lt. 6,20
Born: - 1761 6 Baptized: Died: - 1781 6 Buried:
5 M Von Pelden G. Friedrich August CLOUDT 6
Born: - Mar 1770 6 Baptized: Died: Buried:Spouse: Von Maria Dorothea ERDE \ZU \EYLL ( - ) 6 Marr: 25 May 1795 - Evangelisch Kirche, Moers, Rheinland, Prueussen 6
6 F Von Pelden G. Henriette CLOUDT 6
Born: - Bet 1754 And 1785 6 Baptized: Died: Buried:
7 F Von Pelden G. Reinhardine CLOUDT 6
Born: - Bet 1754 And 1785 6 Baptized: Died: Buried:
8 F Von Pelden G. Charlotta CLOUDT 6
Born: - Bet 1754 And 1785 6 Baptized: Died: Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
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
Notes (Marriage)
Finaly, in 1754, in his 48th year of age, he married Vincentia Wilhelmina, daughter of Franz Friedr. 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. See Enclosure No. __.*
*Reference is made here by the author to an enclosure. However, the number has been erased and a new one has not been put in.</blockquote>
Sealing Spouse: 3 DEC 1987 6
General Notes for Child Von Pelden G. Louisa CLOUDT
Louisa was sickly even in her childhood. She suffered from "scrofel"* sickness and died in February 1794, one year after her father. She was placed next to her father in the vault at Lauersfort. She had the luck of not seeing the downfall of her lineage.
*Scrofula-swellings of the lymph glands of the neck; tuberculosis of lymph glands especially in the neck. 6,181
General Notes for Child Von Pelden G. Jost Friedrich Reinhard CLOUDT Chamberlain
Jost Friedrich Reinhard von Pelden named Cloudt, oldest son of Moritz Godfried, born on October 5th, 1755, was so weak during his childhood that one did not expect a long life for him. His father hesitated to spend 100 Dukats to have Jost Friedrich enrolled in the German Order Balley at Utrecht, which would allow its horsemen to marry; although, at the expense of being expelled from the Order for rebelliousness. This Balley at Utrecht, in addition to the Commander, had eleven very lucrative officer positions. That Jost Friedrich was not admitted at that time, cost him a yearly income of many thousand Guiden, and the considerable age that he reached would have made it inevitable for him to be the oldest Commander or Province Commander. His father encouraged him to study from early on. At seven years of age he was already in the third grade and because of his scholarship and the admirable men at the well-known secondary school of Moers, he had two tutorial sessions with Mr. Riema daily. It was this respectable man whom Jost Friedrich has to thank for his cultivation and knowledge and love of science. As a sign of gratitude to this second father, Jost friedrich honors his ashes in his grave as long as he is alive. Riema, who possessed an exceptional gift of teaching, brought J. Friedrich so far in a short time that he took J. Friedrich into his third class and then could be promoted, together with his teacher, into the next higher grade. In this way, Jost Friedrich had the advantage of always having the same teacher. Jost Friedrich was under the Headmaster Schmidt, the father-in-law of Riema, for only half a year in the first grade. This elderly, but very knowledgeable and honorable man died, and, in his place, Riema returned; Jost Friedrich again had his earlier teacher.
At Easter 1770, Jost Fridrich graduated and, at 14 1/2 years of age, went to the University at Duisburg. It is a risky enterprise when parents send their children to university at such a tender age.The results could be very detrimental. Jost Friedrich had the luck to obtain room and board in the house of the Professor of Medicine, Mr. Leidenfrost, a friend and doctr of his paternal family, and thereby came under fatherly supervision. After a year and a half, Leidenfrost himself urged that the young man be given more free time and that he change his residence. Then Jost Friedrich stayed with the Lord Mayor Schaumburg, likewise a friend and legal counsel of the House of Cloudt, again with room and board. For five years, until Easter 1775, Jost Fridrich studied in Duisburg. At first his father intended to send him for one more year to a different university but this was left undone becaus ehis father needed him for the private and family business. His father was not inclined to place him in the Prussian civil service either. From 1776 to 1780 Jost Friedrich was most times at Stein, where, with the Imperial Commission against the subject, he alone ran the business and saved the family a lawyer, for which he earned only ingratitude, however. To be removed from all fellowships in his best years was no trivial sacrifice; and, except for a pair of officials with who he coudn't trustingly go around, he seldom saw more than fleeting company. It was only then that the Imperial Commission had arrived and his stay at Stein became pleasanter.
Jost Friedrich had little inclination to marry. He wanted to join the German order much more. Therefore he worked ardously to bring his family tree in order, which demanded much effort and extensive correspondence, because the family archive was not as organized as it should have been. His father apparently didn't disapprove of this decision, but he sought to thwart its completion by never giving the necessary two thousand Gulden for entrance. His father did not approve his decision because the rules of the Order required the riders even of the protestant Balleys to totally renounce marriage. However, the death of his second brother* in 1781 changed Jost Friedrich's priorities. Jost Friedrich decided to marry, and wed Josephine Caroline Bernhardine Freiin [Freiherrin] von Brackel zu Breidtmar, on September 5, 1785 according to the marriage pact. They both lived very happily with each other. Only the search for the different family lines disturbed their peace and satisfaction. He was not married three years when his spouse was torn away from him by death on August 25, 1788, three hours after the delivery of a daughter.**
In October 1794, he emigrated, first to the Abbey Werden and then to Essen, due to the French advances. After the Peace of Basel, he returned to Lauersfort early in 1795. Only in March 1799, did he attain effective ownership of Lauersfort, when his mother renounced the usufruct. He stayed at Lauersfort until the fall of 1803; then he gave up the household and went to the Hildensheim, where he resided until 1806. After a short stay at Lauersfort and then at Traer, with the religious Mr. Ewald von Kleist, he went and stayed with his daughter at the Gesecke Convent until her marriage in 1810; whence he followed her to Herringhausen. In 1811 he was at Lauersfort for a short while, and the last time, to unwillingly sell this prized property, due to the circumstances of the time. In that year, he also made use of the baths at Wiesbaden to restore his ruined health. On the way there, he made an acquaintance at Engers at the court of the Prince von Nassau-Weilburg which caused him to choose Weilburg as his future permanent abode. He continued to use the baths at Wiesbaden and [also] several times at Ems. He found a salt bath on the island of Norderney in the North Sea off the East Fresian coast to be the most conducive to and effective for his health. He visited this bath in three succeeding years - 1821, 1822 and 1823. In 1814 he went to Brussels, where his son, whom he had not seen for so many years, found himself with the English troops, after the withdrawal from Spain and France. With his son and daughter-in-law, he visited Herringhausen for a few weeks, and then returned with them to Brussels. After a six month stay, shortly before the Battle of Waterloo, he left Brussels and returned to Weilburg in May 1815, which he strayed from only to visit his children Jost Friedrich had only two children, a son and a daughter. There is more about him in Enclosure No. 71.
*Lt. Ferdinand Wilhelm von Pelden named Cloudt (born 1761)
**Francisca Louise Vincentia Josephine von Pelden name Cloudt
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Jost Friederich Reinhard, eldest son, inherited from his father and mother 5/24 parts of the whole property. Under this was assigned to him the manorial estate of Lauersfort with its appendages and dependencies.
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Mr. & Mrs. Ray Barrall and there son Glenn visited and stayed at the Palace in Weilburg, it is now a castle-hotel and you can stay there.
The Chamberlain was an honorary position as an assistant to the King. Prussia being just a part of Hannover. 6,143,144
General Notes for Child Von Pelden G. Friedrich August CLOUDT
Friedrich August von Pelden named Cloudt, second son of Moritz Godfried, born in March 1770, attended the secondary school in Moers and boarded with the esteemed Headmaster Riema. At the end of his school years, he attended Duisberg University, but only for one year, because he didn't have any inclination to study. He became a cadet, which his father didn't like to see, in the Prussian regiment of Rhomberg at Bielefeld. As an officer he participated in the campaign against the French in Champagne. After that campaign, however, he left the army. He never saw his father again, who had died a few months before his return. After his return from Essen, he married Miss Maria Dorothea von Erde zu Eyll, from whom he did not get any fortune. He lived with his spouse, with whom he had four sons and two daughters, at Giesenfeld but, unfortunately, in unhappy circumstances. Enclosure No. 66 also concerns him. 6,181
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