• Gemen was an immediate, sovereign lordship of the Holy Roman Empire, in the Lower Rhine region. Since Gemen had a vote in the Imperial Diet it was also...
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    Gemen, Oberstein, Styrum, etc. When the branch of Gemen became extinct in 1800, the branch of Styrum failed to inherit their possessions, and Gemen passed...
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  • Limburg-Styrum-Gemen was a county of medieval Germany, based in the Lordship of Gemen in modern North Rhine-Westphalia. It was partitioned from Limburg-Styrum...
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  • 1700 map showing the Lordship of Gemen. That year the lordship gained immediacy, becoming the "Free Imperial Lordship of Gemen"....
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    war, community rearrangements followed in 1969, including annexation of Gemen and other towns in the vicinity. Between 1975 and 1978 came the cleaning...
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    September 1785-5 December 1800) was sovereign lord of the immediate lordship of Gemen. He was born in 1785, the son of Count Johann of Limburg Stirum and his...
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  • ágan, gan "(he) went" Av ǰamaiti "goes"; OAv inj. uz-ǰǝ̄n "(he) goes", pl. gǝmǝn "they go" OPrus gimtwei "to be born", Lith gimti "to be born", Latv dzimt...
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    sovereign lord zu Gemen, was the son of Adolf Ernst of Limburg Stirum and an imperial Field Marshal. He inherited the immediate lordship of Gemen in 1675, being...
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  • lordship of Gemen at the death of his father in 1644, creating the Limburg-Styrum-Gemen branch of the family. He remained lord of Gemen until his death...
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  • He was the third son of Adolf Ernst of Limburg Stirum, sovereign lord zu Gemen. He married in 1677 countess Maria Anna von Rechberg and Rothenlöwen (died...
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