West-Europese adel » Hendrik Anselm Graaf van Promnitz (1564-1622)

Personal data Hendrik Anselm Graaf van Promnitz 

  • He was born on November 26, 1564 in Zary (Sorau), Lebuskië, Polen.
  • Title: Heer van Sorau, Triebel, Hoyerswerda en Pless
  • He died on March 4, 1622 in Lübben (Spreewald), Brandenburg, he was 57 years old.
  • A child of Siegfried Vrijheer van Promnitz and Ursula Schaffgotsch
  • This information was last updated on June 15, 2020.

Household of Hendrik Anselm Graaf van Promnitz

He is married to Sophia van Kurzbach.

They got married on January 20, 1590, he was 25 years old.


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Notes about Hendrik Anselm Graaf van Promnitz

Kaiserl. Rat, Kammerherr, Landvogt der Nieder-Lausitz

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Birthday November 26, 1564

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1564: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 26 » The Council of Trent establishes an official distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
    • January 26 » The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
    • March 15 » Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes "jizya" (per capita tax).
    • April 26 » Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).

Day of marriage January 20, 1590

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1590: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 8 » Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice Judaism of his sister and her children.
    • March 14 » Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
    • August 18 » John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
    • September 27 » Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
    • October 16 » Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
    • October 24 » John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.

Day of death March 4, 1622

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1622: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 12 » Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
    • March 22 » Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
    • April 22 » The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
    • June 24 » Battle of Macau: The Dutch make a failed attempt to capture Macau.
    • December 18 » Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
    • December 22 » The town of Bucaramanga, Colombia, is founded by Andres Paes de Sotomayor.


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