Jean III d'Egmont ( fr. Jean III d'Egmont ; niderl. Jan III van Egmont ; April 3, 1438, Hattem - August 21, 1516, Egmond ) - 1st Earl of Egmont , Senor van Purmerend , Hogwood, Artswood and von Baer .
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 Alkmaar master . Portrait of John III van Egmont and Magdalen von Werdenberg. Metropolitan Museum | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Joss de Lalen | ||||||
| Successor | Henry III von Nassau | ||||||
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The son of Count Willem van Egmont and Walburg von Moers.
In 1465, he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he was admitted to the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher .
In 1472/1473 he was appointed by Karl the Bold Vogt of West Friesland , in 1474 the governor of Arnhem , in 1481 the burgrave of Gorinchem . In 1483 he inherited his father, as the lord of Egmont.
Maximilian I Habsburg in 1483 made him the stadhouder of Holland. Distinguished in all the wars in the Netherlands of his time; during the suppression of another uprising of the cod league in 1490, Dort, Harlem and several other places, drove the rebels from Leiden and won the battle over the army of the leader of the rebels Frank van Brederode.
In 1491 on the chapter in Mechelen was accepted as a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece . The following year, he was appointed as a hawser (chief forest warden) of Holland.
In 1486, from the King of Rome Maximilian, he achieved the elevation of the rank of Egmont to the rank of county, and also received the rank of Purmerend , Hoogwood, and Artswood.
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Family
Wife (1484): Magdalena von Werdenberg (1464–1538), daughter of Count Georg von Werdenberg and Katharina of Baden, cousin Maximilian I
Children:
- Guillaume d'Egmont , mind at 20, was single
- Jean IV d'Egmont (c. 1499—19.04.1528), Count Egmont. Wife (1516): Francoise de Luxemburg-Fienne (d. 1557), daughter of Jacques II de Luxemburg , Count de Havre, and Margherita de Brugge
- Georg d'Egmont (c. 1504–26.11.1559), Abbot of Saint-Amand, Bishop of Utrecht
- Philip d'Egmont (1509–1529), lord von Baer. Died in Italy, was single
- Jossina d'Egmont (10.31–30.11.1485)
- Walburg d'Egmont (1489-7.03.1529). Male (10/29/1506): Count Wilhelm I von Nassau-Dillenburg (1489-1559)
- Catharine d'Egmont (1491 - up to March 6, 1544). The Husband (10/23/1508): Frank van Borsselen, Senor van Kortgene (died 1522)
- Anna d'Egmont (ca. 1493–30.10.1563), abbess in Loosduinen
- John d'Egmont (06.1498-1541). The Husband (11/17/1556): Georg Schenk van Tautenburg (1480–1540)
- Jossina d'Egmont . Husband (07/20/1511): Baron Ian II van Wassenaar , Burgrave of Leiden (1483-1523)
Bastard from Josina van Wervershof :
- Allert Grotto van Egmont (1483-1534). Wife: Herthe Wiggertsdochter
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Biografisch Portaal - 2009.
Literature
- Le Grand dictionnaire historique ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane. T. iv. P., 1759, p. 51 [1]
- Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du Comté de Bourgogne. - TI - Gand: F. et T. Gyselinck, 1865, pp. 709-710
- Vegiano J.-Ch.-J. de. Supplément au Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du Comté de Bourgogne, 1420–1555. - Louvain: Jean Jacobs, 1775, pp. 62-63 [2]