West-Europese adel » Johan Sigismund Vrijheer Kettler Heer van Ambotten (1610-1678)

Personal data Johan Sigismund Vrijheer Kettler Heer van Ambotten 


Household of Johan Sigismund Vrijheer Kettler Heer van Ambotten

He is married to Anna Catharina van Dönhoff.

They got married on February 24, 1648 at Brandenburg, he was 37 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Louise Maria Kettler  1650-1679 
  4. Eleonore Kettler  1665-???? 
  5. Juliana Kettler  1667-???? 

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Birthday November 10, 1610

  • 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 1610: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 7 » Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
    • May 14 » Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac, and Louis XIII ascends the throne.
    • July 4 » The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Muscovite War.
    • July 5 » John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
    • August 2 » During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
    • August 9 » The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.

Day of marriage February 24, 1648

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem II (Huis van Oranje) was from 1647 till 1650 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1648: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 17 » England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
    • May 15 » The Peace of Münster is ratified, by which Spain acknowledges Dutch sovereignty.
    • June 1 » The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
    • August 8 » Mehmed IV (1648–1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640–1648) as Ottoman Emperor.
    • October 24 » The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
    • December 6 » Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".

Day of death April 18, 1678

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1678: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 25 » Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
    • August 3 » Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
    • November 25 » Trunajaya rebellion: After a long and logistically challenging march, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri.


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