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Personal data Karl van Limpurg Speckfeld 


Household of Karl van Limpurg Speckfeld

(1) He is married to Odilia van Schwarzburg.

They got married on June 7, 1523, he was 25 years old.


Child(ren):



(2) He is married to Adelheid van Salm Kirburg.

They got married about 1543.


Child(ren):

  1. Eva van Limpurg Speckfeld  ± 1544-1587 
  3. Lucia van Limpurg Speckfeld  ± 1550-± 1626

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Birthday March 17, 1498

  • Graaf Filips II de Schone (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1494 till 1506 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1498: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 20 » Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
    • May 23 » Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
    • August 1 » Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
    • August 17 » Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois.
    • August 29 » Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
    • September 20 » The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in. It has been outside since then.

Day of marriage June 7, 1523

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1523: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 20 » Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
    • June 6 » Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day.
    • June 9 » The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
    • June 10 » Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city will not recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
    • July 1 » Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.

Day of death September 2, 1558

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1558: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 7 » French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
    • April 24 » Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
    • July 13 » Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
    • October 17 » Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
    • November 17 » Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.


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