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. 116 202 203 204
5496. Von Vincentia Wilhelmina KINSKY 116 198 (Von Franz Friederich KINSKY4, Von Gertrude Ignace LUXEMBOURG3, Von Ferdinande HORRION2, Gertrudis (Von Pelden G.)1) was buried on 4 Sep 1816 in Family Vault Outside Moers.116
Birth Notes: Abt 1729
Death Notes: 1 Sep 1816
Vincentia married Von Pelden G. Mauritz Godfried CLOUDT,116 son of Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich Freyherr CLOUDT II and Von Elisabet Magdalena Marquerite KINSKY, on 27 Sep 1754 in Evangelisch Kirche, Moers, Rheinland, Prueussen.116 Mauritz was buried on 18 Feb 1793 in Lauersfort.116
Marriage Notes: 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 116
Birth Notes: 1706
Death Notes: 12 Feb 1793
Noted events in his life were:
• Moritz: Moritz. 116 Aka
(Duplicate Line. See Person 4504, Von Pelden G. Mauritz Godfried CLOUDT)
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