Gertrude Ignace had married very young and died at the age of 32 years in the vigor of womanhood. The dead body was conveyed to Hollogne and buried there in the chapel attached to the Castle. 116
The Kinsky family crest are bears in a red field, three superposed wolf's teeth projected side by side, from the bottom left-hand side of the shield to the right side of it. On the crowned helmet are wholly stretched out eagle's wings: the right one in silver, the left one in red. The coverings of the helmet are silver and red.
Borchard Wilhelm von Kinsky could have raised his family and could have left wealthy children. Already his first wife, a certain Lady von Nurenberg from a patrician family, with whom he hand no children, brought 100,000 Gulden into the marriage. After her death, he married the rich heiress [above said] Gertrude Ignace von Luxembourg. Her mother was Ferdinande von Horrion zu Heel, and her grandmother was Gertrudis von Pelden named Clout. That old family died out with her. One line of the family became dukes, and they even provided an emperor to the German Reich in the person of Count Henrich von Lutzelbourg, under the name of Henrich VII, in 1308. Balduin, Count of Luxembourg, a brother of that emperor, was Elector and Archbishop of Maintz. Gertrude Ignace bequeathed, unfortunately, all her estates "per Dondationem inter Vivos" to her husband, Borchard Wilhelm, in 1671. The von Clout family contested that donation as being invalid. LAteron, when the von Kinsky family came into possession of the Imperial Barony of Stein, there arose a lawsuit of may years duration at the Imperial Court of Chancery. This ultimately was in "Revisorio", and, in 1804, was adjusted "Compensando" against the claims the von Kinsky family mad to the inheritance of Johan Wilhelm von der Hell.
Borchard Wilhelm had begotten very many children with Gertrude Ignace; of which, however, only four remained alive: namely, said Elisabet Magdalena Margareta, by marriage Lady von Clout Zu Lauersfort; Mauritz Wilhelm; Franz Friederich von Kinsky; and another daughter, Vincentia, who died unmarried. Gertrude Ignace had married very young and died at the age of 32 years in the vigor of womanhood. The dead body was conveyed to Hollogne and buried there in the chapel attached to the Castle. Then Borchard Wilhem became seignior of all the estates of his deceased wife. However, he was a waster. He soon sold Buzin and Failon. He had loaded Hollogne with debt; and, his eldest son, Mauritz Wilhelm, did not do better. Hollogn was given up, so to speak, for the outstanding debts; and Franz Friederich recoverd therefrom, for himself, only some few thousand Gulden. If Borchard Wilhelm also had already possessed Baetenburg and Stein, not much would have come to the heirs therefrom. However, the matter concerning Stein was pending in a legal contest with the seignior of Merode-Westerloo who had taken possession of Stein. Borchard Wilhelm did not live to see the end. Only in 1735, after 80 years' standing, it was decided; and in 1740, the von Westerloo family was dispossessed by the "Niederrheinishc Westphalischen Kreyss"; and homage to the von Kinsky family was rendered by the subjects. In 1745 both parties came to an agreement regarding the dispute in such a way that Westerloo paid 18,000 "Patacons" to the von Kinsky family and renounced all claims. Those claims consisted of an old lawsuit Bronckhorst versus Luxembourg, on account of breach of the public peace. Furthermore, there were claims on account of acquistions and ameliorations which the von Merode family had made at Stein, and also regarding unimportant debts burdened on Stein, and so on. Considering this arrangement, the Merode family got off very well, for the 80 years' possession easily might have amounted to so much that the Merod efamily should have added another dominion. It seems, however, that the two brothers von Kinsky, whos situation, because of expenses of their father and the squandering of the Luxembourg estates, had greatly deteriorated; and they had been glad to come into possession of the Barony of Stein and to get some cash. Moreover, they had expressly reserved to themselves, in that arrangment with Merode, the claims to Baetenburg -- "Se reservans de toute Maniere la praetension de Baetenbourge."* But from the archives her in our hands, it can't be determined whether, or if so where, the von Kinsky family had tried to assert their claims to Baetenburg.
Baetenburg was a very important barony. It had the right of coinage and the collection of customs on the Maas River which brought in 20, 000 Gulden yearly. Just as the Merode-Westerloo has usurped Stein, also the Count von Horn had usurped Baetenbourg. By the marriage of Isabella Justina Countess von Horn, who died in 17334, pretending to be heiress of Baetenbourg, and Count Ernst von Steinfurt, who died in 1713, Baetenbourg came to the Counts von Bentheim. Buonaparte took it from them and sold that small country to the Dutch, at whose frontier it was situated. Bentheim was indemnified for it by the "Reichs-Deputations-Schluss." This legal contest is treated in detail by von Ludolph, the Assessor fo the Superior Court in his Symph:Consult:ed Decis: for. XV,** from which the genealogy mostly has been taken.
Borchard Wilhelm von Kinsky became a Drost and Governor of Moers, because all the sons of Drost Wyrich Adolph were still minors at the death of the latter in 1676. Otherwise, that Drost office would have remained in the hands of the von Cloudt family. When William III, King of Great Britain, Prince of Oranien-Nassau, died, in 1702, without leaving children, Prussia took possession of the County of Moers. The mastery of the city and of the fortress was gained, on November 7, 1712, only by night and by resorting to a ruse, wherby only a Prussian Captain was drowned in a moat; and a Dutch soldier, still trying to let down the drawbridge, was shot dead. Drost Borchard Wilhelm von Kinsky sided with the rising sun. His son-in-law, Jost Wyrich von Clout, however, remained a zealous and faithful follower of the House of Orange; and no one could reproach him for doing so. The first charge of a Drost and Governor of Moers had, to a certain degree, been inheritable in his family and came to someone of another family only in the case of there being no Cloudt of age. This difference in political opinion may have been the main reason for the dislike which arose between the two families of Kinsky and Cloudt, which increased more and more. The wife of Jost Wyrich von Cloudt, Elisabet Magdalena Margareta born von Kinsky, shared the feeling of her husband with all her heart and soul. She was attached to the Cloudt family into which she had married. As right and proper as that may be for a woman, there is, however, a limit to doing so, which, in her passion, she may have sometimes overstepped. In the next generation, we shall meet with a behavior quite opposite of that.
Borchard Wilhelm von Kinsky was appointed "Geheimer Rath" [Privy Councillor] and confirmed in the Drost Office. He was also decorated with a "Gnaden Creutz" [badge of an order of grace]. However, in his power as a Drost, he was confined more and more. He made several donations, codicils, and testaments wherin he favored his two daughters, but named Elisabeth Magdalena Lady von Cloudt and Vincentia only "quoad Legitimam." He died on January 29, 1724. The lawsuits between Cloudt and Kinsky regarding the donation, which was decided in favor of the von Cloudt fvamily, as well as that regarding the Cloudt claims to the Imperial Baron of Stein, were carried on with much animosity, since the von Cloudt family rejected the donation of Gertruide Ignace von Luxembourg as being invalid. Whereas, the von Kinsky family pushed, sometime more, sometimes less, the case in the matter of the inheritance of Sir von der Hell. Thus, both families were engaged in an incessant contest which, to both of them, could be neither of profit nor of use. 116 284
5491. Von Gertrude Ignace LUXEMBOURG 116 (Von Ferdinande HORRION2, Gertrudis (Von Pelden G.)1) was buried in Hollogne In Chapel Attached To Castle.116
Birth Notes: 1639
Death Notes: 1671
Gertrude married Von Borchard Wilhelm KINSKY.116
Marriage Notes: Bef 1666
Death Notes: 29 Jan 1724
Children from this marriage were:
5492 M i. Von Mauritz Wilhelm KINSKY .116
5493 M ii. Von Franz Friederich KINSKY .116
Franz married Von Anna Baroness HAEFTEN.116
5494 F iii. Von Vincentia KINSKY .116
5495 F iv. Von Elisabet Magdalena Marquerite KINSKY .116
Elisabet married Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich Freyherr CLOUDT II.116
(Duplicate Line. See Person 4496, Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich Freyherr CLOUDT II)
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