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Persoonlijke gegevens Werner Graaf van Salm Heer van Reifferscheidt 

• Hij is geboren op 17 augustus 1545.
• Titel: Heer van Reifferscheidt, Bedburg en Dyck
• Hij is overleden op 16 december 1629, hij was toen 84 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Johan IX Graaf van Salm Heer van Reifferscheidt en Elisabeth van Rennenberg
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 17 maart 2013.

Gezin van Werner Graaf van Salm Heer van Reifferscheidt

Hij is getrouwd met Anna Maria van Limburg-Stirum.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1567, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Irmengarde van Salm-Reifferscheidt  1568-1578
2. Elisabeth van Salm-Reifferscheidt  1571-1615 
3. Johan Christoph Graaf van Salm-Reifferscheidt  1573-1600
4. Herman Adolf Graaf van Salm-Reifferscheidt  1575-1637
5. Willem Salentin Graaf van Salm-Reifferscheidt  1580-1634
6. Ernst Frederik Graaf van Salm Heer van Reifferscheidt  1583-1639 

Notities over Werner Graaf van Salm Heer van Reifferscheidt

Werner was born in Salm on 17 August 1545, the son of Johann IX, Graf zu Salm-Reifferscheid, and Elisabeth von Renneberg. He was the great grandson of Johann VI, the first Graf zu Salm-Reifferscheid. On 21 August 1567 Werner married Marie van Limburg-Stirum, the daughter of Graaf Georg van Limburg-Stirum and Ermgard van Wisch, Vrijvrouwe van Wisch, Bronkhorst en Borculo. They had six, possibly eight children, of whom Elisabeth and Ernst Friedrich would have progeny. The slow payment of Marie's dowry caused trouble with the van Limburg-Stirum family for many years.

In 1578, following the death of Graf Hermann von Neuenahr without children, Werner entered into a conflict over the succession to the town and estate of Bedburg with Graf Adolf von Neuenahr-Alpen (who had married a sister of Hermann). Werner's claim rested on the fact that Bedburg had earlier been a Reifferscheid estate. Religious conflict was also involved, as Hermann had attempted to introduce the Reformed faith to Bedburg, as permitted in the Augsburg Declaration on religious freedom of 1555, though not in the 'geistige Staaten' (ecclesiastical states) such as the archbishopric-electorate of Cologne, to which Bedburg belonged as a fief.

Werner, on the other hand, was a staunch Catholic, and supporter of Ernst of Bavaria (1554-1612), who was installed as archbishop-elector of Cologne by Bavarian forces in 1583, following the expulsion of his Protestant predecessor Gebhard, Truchsess von Waldburg. Werner had briefly captured the castle of Bedbur in 1578, but was defeated and captured by Adolf von Neuenahr in 1579 and held captive for ten months. However in 1584 the castle was recaptured by Werner with the assistance of Bavarian forces, and from 1585 Catholicism was harshly re-imposed on the citizens of Bedbur as the Counter-Reformation took hold. The estate of Bedbur would remain in the hands of the counts of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck until 1794. However the conflict over the ownership of the castle, estate and town of Bedbur would continue for most of this time between the descendants of the Neuenahr and Salm-Reifferscheid families.

Werner again came to notice in 1628 in a conflict over events at the Wildenburg castle in the mountainous Eifel district. The castle dates from the 12th century. In 1195 the estate of Reifferscheid was divided between the brothers Gerhard and Philipp von Reifferscheid, Gerhard keeping Reifferscheid and Philipp the castle of Wildenburg. The castle passed out of the hands of the Reifferscheid family in the 13th century, and in the 15th it came into the hands of the Palant family. It became embroiled in a period of witch hunts during the Thirty Years' War, when in January 1628 the notorious Marsilius IV von Palant had three women condemned to death as witches. Werner von Reifferscheid disputed the legal authority of Marsilius to mount a trial for witchcraft, and he was able to free the three, but Marsilius had them recaptured and burnt at the stake. A few weeks later he had another five persons executed. Werner appealed to the imperial high court of justice, which stripped Marsilius of the right to try people for witchcraft. However Marsilius rejected the judgment and captured the three judges, imprisoning them for five months in Münstereifel. Altogether 16 people were accused of witchcraft and burnt to death, and many more were held at the Wildenburg castle and tortured. With the death of Marsilius in 1669 that line of the Palant family died out.

On 28 January 1628 in Prague, Werner was granted the ancient title of Altgraf. He did not enjoy this dignity for long as he died on 16 December 1629.
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