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• Occupation: 13 Aug 1675, Bergen, Hordaland, Vestland, Norge; Borger i Bergen.

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Occupation:
Nevnt i Kvinnherad 1664 og i Bergen 1676 (Sollied).
Tok borgerskap i Bergen 13.august 1675.
Flyttet fra Norge og tok ut lysning i utlandet på 1670-tallet.

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• Occupation: 03 Mar 1627, Bergen, Hordaland, Vestland, Norge; Borger (tok borgerskap i byen).

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Birth:
Hamburg / Bremen

Occupation:
Skredder i Bergen, Hindrich Arentt fra Stralsund (?)

Henrich married NN, "Arentz" in 1632 in Tyskland. NN was born in 1604 in Tyskland; died after 1668. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 17 Feb 1567, Bremen, Tyskland; Erkebiskop av Bremen-Hamburg.

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Occupation:
Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg (German: Heinrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg; 1 November 1550 – 22 April 1585, Vörde) was a Prince-Archbishop of Bremen (as Henry 3), then Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück (as Henry 2), then Prince-Bishop of Paderborn (as Henry 4).

Henry was a member of the House of Ascania, Saxe-Lauenburg line. He was the third son of Duke Francis 1 of Saxe-Lauenburg (1543–1581) and is wife Sibylle of Saxony, who had both converted to Lutheranism. Henry was raised Lutheran.
At the age of ten, he was promised a prebend as canon (German: Domherr) at the cathedral chapter at Cologne. Since 1564 he studied at the University of Cologne under law professor Dr. Conrad Betzdorf, who housed him and his brother Frederick and was their mentor.

The schism was not yet so definite, as it looks in the retrospect. The Holy See who, at the time was no-longer related to the original Charlemagne dynasty that had set up the churches and acted as protectors of God, had tried to enforce changes to the church and a grab for lands that did not belong to him. You see, the reformation was not about changing the original church of God as supported by Luther, it was about stopping the changes that the Church in Italy that was now in possession of usurpers the Lombards, who insisted on integrating the old gods and old was into the church, by making priests celibate (even though God states it is not good for men to be alone) and started witch burnings and interogrations using psychiatric practices to punish their opposition with poisoning and torture techniques.

Henry was against these inhumane practices, and so where all the original Charlemagne descendants, the nobility and royal rulers of the lands of Europe, who had carried on Charlemagne's human rights laws, that all men and women shall be deemed free (including freedom of religion). While his youth is recorded as wild, he is recalled as a quiet student. During his studies in Cologne Henry came to know and love Anna von Broich (Borch), who lived as foster child with Betzdorf, since her parents, Cologne's Burgomaster Heinrich von Broich and his wife Ursula, had perished in the plague in 1553. In 1565 he received the prebend and in the following year he advanced to canonicate.

In 1524 the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen had subjected the autonomous farmers' republic of the Land of Wursten, but the Wursteners still hoped for a liberation and support from the neighbouring Saxe-Lauenburgian exclave of the Land of Hadeln. So the enfranchised capitular canons, which were mostly Lutherans since the Reformation, of Bremen Cathedral and Hamburg Cathedral chapter (with only three votes) elected Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg archbishop on 17 February 1567. Since his predecessor Prince-Archbishop George had no coadjutor, an office usually entailing the succession to the see, several dynasts applied for sons of their houses.

Henry's election included a deal stipulated with Henry's father Francis I, who waived any Saxe-Lauenburgian claim to the Land of Wursten, earlier raised by his father Magnus I, as well as to the bailiwick of Bederkesa and Elmlohe, de facto held by Bremen city and abandoned the lawsuit, which Francis had brought to the Imperial Chamber Court to this end.

In his election capitulation (Wahlkapitulation) Henry covenanted to accept the privileges of the Estates of the Prince-Archbishopric (Stiftsstände) and the existing laws. Due to his minority he agreed, that Chapter and Estates would rule the Prince-Archbishopric until coming of age, paying him an annual appanage of 500 rixdollars. For the time being Henry was supposed to work towards his papal confirmation as archbishop.

Henry de facto assumed regency in 1569, lacking any papal confirmation. He still had to repay debts from his pre-predecessor Prince-Archbishop Christopher the Spendthrift Henry continued George's financial assanation and developed for a better financial control the budgeting for the prince-archiepicopal expenditures. While Pope Pius V remained sceptic as to Henry's faith, Emperor Maximilian II regarded Henry a true Catholic, putting in a good word for Henry. Thus Maximilian granted Henry an imperial liege indult (Lehnsindult) in 1570, investing him with the princely regalia for the prince-archbishopric although he still lacked the papal confirmation.

Therefore Henry never officially functioned as archbishop, but as princely Administrator of the Prince-Archbishopric, however, he was nevertheless colloquially referred to as prince-archbishop. Henry always observed the Roman Catholic formalities for the episcopal consecration, although he never wanted to be a Catholic bishop. The All Saints' Flood of November 1 and 2, 1570 inflicted terrible hardship in the Bremian Elbe Marshes.

In 1571 Henry started a campaign against brigandage. Through all his episcopate the Popes Pius 5 and Gregory 13 as well as the Emperors Maximilian 2 and Rudolph 2 tested Henry's obedience once in a while, demanding the succession of Catholic candidates for vacancies in the Bremian Cathedral Chapter - which it sometimes accepted, sometimes denied.

In 1567 the Holy See failed to replace the late Canon Christoph of East Frisia with the Catholic Wilhelm Quadt of Landskorn. Two years later Pius V prevailed with the Catholic Jodocus von Galen succeeding the Lutheran Canon Hermann Clüvers.

In 1570 Pius ordered Henry to promote Verden's Catholic Cathedral Dean Nikolaus von Hemeling as Bremian cathedral provost (Dompropst), a function including the presidency of the chapter, while Maximilian demanded – using his privilege of presentation – Georg Rudell. However, the capitular canons then elected Henry's brother Frederick, succeeding the late Ludwig von Varendorf.
After Frederick's death Gregory 13 demanded succession for the Catholic Theodor von Galen, and prevailed.
The chapter fulfilled the religious functions as in case of sede vacante until 26 September 1580, in order not to complicate a papal confirmation, which, however, never materialised. Henry then postponed his efforts to be recognised by Rome. The Pope succeeded to get a third Catholic canon elected into the else Lutheran chapter, Ahasver von Langen, later Provost of Zeven nunnery between 1601–1603, but these three never formed a Catholic opposition within the chapter.

On 23 May 1574 the cathedral chapter of Osnabrück elected Henry Bishop Henry 2, as such lacking papal confirmation and imperial liege indult to rule the prince-bishopric. When the Osnabrück chapter appointed Henry administrator of the prince-bishopric, Henry swore to protect Catholic faith and to maintain peace between the denominations. The papal order not to appoint Henry administrator arrived in Osnabrück only days after his investiture, so that Henry celebrated his festive entering in the prince-bishopric in June 1574.
In late 1574, the nuncio to Cologne, Kaspar Gropper, also professor at Cologne University, presented a protocol which evaluated the conditions for Henry's election in Münster and Osnabrück according to Canon Law. For Rome the recognition of Henry's election as bishop was not acceptable.

His reign in Osnabrück is overshadowed by numerous witch burnings. But he also completed the prince-episcopal Fürstenau Castle, started by his predecessor John of Hoya, while the started construction of a residential castle in Osnabrück ended with Henry's sudden death. Henry also ran for the episcopal elections of Münster in 1575, 1577 and 1580, but failed narrowly. The Catholic opposition played no relevant role in Osnabrück.

On 25 October 1575, Court Preacher Hermann Gade married Henry and Anna of Broich (also known as Betzdorf) secretly in the chapel of Burghagen Castle in Hagen im Bremischen. She was supposedly the biological daughter of his mentor, professor Betzdorf in Cologne. Bremen's cathedral chapter approved the wedding, violating Henry's election capitulation, but ordered that future administrators were not to marry. As reason for the marriage, he wrote into the wedding book that he did not possess the gift of chastity. The plague befell the prince-archbishopric in 1575. The year after Henry prompted the renovation of the Vörde hospital and infirmary founded by Prince-Archbishop Johann Rode, as he generally promoted the development of his residential town.

Since 1576, in anticipation of the inheritance of the Land of Hadeln, Henry served as regent of that Saxe-Lauenburgian exclave, consented by Emperor Rudolph 2. In return Henry paid his indebted father a compensation and assumed his debts with the Counts of Oldenburg.

After his father's death in 1581 Henry inherited Hadeln and used the opportunity to renew its Church Order (Lutheran church constitution), first issued in 1526. The publication of the Estates Laws of Hadeln (Hadler Landrecht, 1583), the compilation of which his father Francis had begun, fell into Henry's regency. His brother Francis 2 disputed Henry as heir, but could not prevail.

In 1577 Pope Gregory 13 announced to excommunicate every capitular canon, who would dare to vote for Henry as administrator. Bremen's cathedral chapter recommended Paderborn's capitulars to elect him bishop there. The cathedral chapter then ignored the papal threat and elected Henry Bishop of Paderborn, as Henry 4, on 14 October 1577. Papal confirmation and liege indult were again denied. As Paderborn's elect Henry chose the motto:

Gott ist mir Anfang und Ende" (God is beginning and end to me).

In 1578, Henry ostentatively entered Paderborn accompanied by his wife. The Catholic opposition, forming in Paderborn, troubled Henry's reign there, he failed to expel the Jesuits and Nuncio to Cologne, Giovanni Francesco Bonomi, even considered his impeachment.
During the warlike conflict between his brother Magnus and his father Francis I and other brothers Francis 2, and Maurice, Henry functioned as arbiter.
In 1581 – shortly before Francis I's death – Henry, his father, and Rudolph 2 consulted, unconcerted with Magnus and Maurice, concluding that Francis 1 made his third son Francis 2, whom he considered the ablest, his sole successor, violating the rules of primogeniture in Saxe-Lauenburg. The emperor esteemed his skills and thus charged Henry with arbitrations in lawsuits at the Imperial Chamber Court and the Aulic Council.

In 1577 he codified the laws of the Bremian knightage (Bremisches Ritterrecht) and decreed a prince-archiepiscopal police ordinance. In the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen Henry introduced a Lutheran Church Order in 1580 and the Vörde Church Constitution (Vörder Kirchenordnung) in 1582. In order to improve the Lutheran pastoring he introduced regular visitations in the parishes. Thus Henry adopted pastoral functions as a Lutheran in all the Prince-Archbishopric, also in its northeastern part, which belonged in ecclesiastical respect to the Verden See, held by Administrator Eberhard of Holle. Henry urged the Altkloster nunnery (part of today's Buxtehude) to accept the Lutheran Christoph von der Hude as their provost, however, the steadfastly Catholic nuns refused. In reaction to this development the Holy See founded the Roman Catholic Nordic Missions, an endeavour for pastoral care and mission in the area of the de facto ceased archdioceses of Bremen and of Lund. In 1581 Henry prompted a new Court Procedures Code for the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen.

Henry had consulted his brother Francis 2 in developing the Church Order for the Lutheran church of Saxe-Lauenburg, which Francis decreed in 1585.

In 1581 his father died in Buxtehude, a town under Henry's prince-archiepiscopal rule, also his mother and brother Maurice settled and later died there in 1592 and 1612, respectively.

On Palm Sunday, 8 April 1585, after a Lutheran church service in Vörde, riding home Henry met with an equestrian accident, his horse baulked and pitched him. In his residence Vörde Castle he died of his injuries on April 22. On May 21 he was buried in Vörde's Palace Church, his grave was destroyed when the church was demolished in 1682. While in Bremen, the Catholic cause was lost forever, Henry's unexpected death led to a success for the Counter Reformation in Paderborn.

His widow inherited several estates, among them Beverstedtermühlen, which she successfully extended into a Vorwerk. However, her brother-in-law Francis 2 blamed her to have caused Henry's early death. Francis, after quarreling with Maurice, reacquired the Land of Hadeln for Saxe-Lauenburg.

Heinrich III., Erzbischof von Bremen, † am 18. April 1585, gewählt am 17. Februar 1567, vorher Domherr zu Köln, lutherisch, Freund des späteren Erzbischofs Gebhard II. (Truchseß von Waldburg), der 1583 entsetzt wurde; ist 1574 auch Bischof von Osnabrück und 1577 (zwischen 5. Sept. bis 16. Nov.) Bischof von Paderborn geworden; die versuchte Erlangung von Münster 1580 [507] scheiterte. Als Sohn Herzogs Franz I. von Lauenburg 1550 am 11. November geboren, kam er früh zur Herrschaft, und entgegengesetzt dem wilden fehdelustigen Raufboldwesen der Prinzen seines Hauses wurde er ein tüchtiger, friedliebender, wohl verwaltender Regent seiner Stifter, von hohem Ansehen im Reich, obwol vom Papst nie bestätigt, ebenso geehrt an den verschwägerten Königshöfen von Schweden und Dänemark. Kalt, ernst, unbeugsam, strammer Niederwerfer adelicher Raublust und Eigenmacht, Förderer financieller Ordnung, also auch von Steuern, war er persönlich nicht geliebt, aber seine Unterthanen haben nachher sein Andenken gesegnet, namentlich im Bremischen, das nie solche Wohlfahrt gekannt hatte als unter ihm. Er war verheirathet mit Anna von Broich, der Tochter eines Färbermeisters und Rathsherren zu Köln, die nach ihrem Vormund Dr. Pestorf auch Anna Pestorf (Bestorf) genannt wird, 1575, 25. October zu Hagen (irrig bei v. Kobbe) durch Prediger Gade getraut. Durch seine Wahl kam durch Vertrag das Land Wursten definitiv an Bremen, und er wußte die Bauern zu versöhnen; er ordnete und vereinfachte das Gerichtswesen, ließ die Volksrechte theils sammeln, theils bessern, und setzte 1577 das von Joachim Hinck ausgearbeitete Bremische Ritterrecht durch, das in verbalhornter Gestalt noch gilt; auch suchte er zu erreichen, was wir heute ein Budget nennen, und damals unerhört, auch nicht zu erzielen war. Als Paderborner Bischof hat er eine kurze Fehde wegen Pyrmont’s gehabt; die Osnabrücker, bei denen er das Schuldwesen zu ordnen unternahm, wurden seiner Regierung wegen schwerer Pest, Miswachses und Hungersnoth und des Klosterbrandes von Iburg 1581 nicht recht froh. Als Bremer Erzbischof hat er einen kurzen diplomatischen Streit mit Wilhelm von Oranien 1576, da er einen holländischen Vice-Admiral Hans Abel, der, ein geborener Wurster Bauer, wegen Eigenhülfe hatte fliehen müssen, verhaftet hatte, als er mit einem Kriegsgeschwader in die Wesermündung gelaufen war. Seiner Zeit Gebrechen haftet an diesem tüchtigen, in kleinlicher Zeit weit blickenden Regenten in den Hexenverfolgungen; 1583 allein wurden 163 Personen im Bisthum, davon 121 Weiber in der Stadt Osnabrück hingerichtet. Er starb an einem Sturz vom Pferde beim Kirchritt und wurde in Bremervörde, seiner Residenz, beigesetzt. Seine Gemahlin, die sich nun „Anna von Broich Wittwe“ schrieb, behielt ein Kirchengut als Witthum; die herzoglich Lauenburgische Familie hatte schon lange ausgesprengt, Anna habe H. durch Liebestränke bezaubert, und schmählich genung forderte Herzog Franz II. jetzt das Bremer Domcapitel auf, wegen möglicher Verschleppung „ohne Weitläufigkeit und Proceß gegen sie zu verfahren“, was dieses ablehnte. Um Papiere ausgeliefert zu erhalten, bat er dann sie selbst in sehr freundlichen Schreiben, und Anna übergab dieselben auch 1590. – Von 1581–85 regierte H. auch das Land Hadeln als sein Erbe.

Heinrich married Anna von Broich, "Betzdorf" on 25 Oct 1575 in Hagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Tyskland. Anna (daughter of Heinrich von Broich, "Betzdorf" and Ursula von Breinich, "von Broich" / "von Linner") was born before 1553 in Bremensvorde, Tyskland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Viet i hemmelighet i kapellet i Burghagen slott av Hermann Gade.

Am 25. Oktober 1575 Hofprediger Hermann Gade heiratete Henry und Anna von Broich heimlich in der Kapelle des Schlosses Burghagen in Hagen im Bremischen. Sie war vermutlich die biologische Tochter von seinem Mentor, Professor Betzdorf in Köln. Domkapitel Bremen genehmigt die Hochzeit, zu verletzen Henry Wahl Kapitulation, aber befahl, dass zukünftige Administratoren waren nicht zu heiraten. Als Grund für die Ehe, schrieb er in das Hochzeitsbuch, dass er die Gabe der Keuschheit nicht besitzt. Die Plage widerfuhr den Prinzen-Erzbistum in 1575. Das Jahr nach Henry veranlasste die Renovierung des Vörde Krankenhaus und Krankenstation von Fürsterzbischof Johann Rode gegründet, als er in der Regel förderte die Entwicklung seiner Residenzstadt.

Kilde:
http://mussenstellen.com/article/heinrich-von-sachsen-lauenburg

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 1543, Sachsen, Tyskland; Hertug av Sachsen-Lauenburg.

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Occupation:
Overtok etter faren i 1543. Sønnen Magnus 2. overtok tittelen i 1571.

Fra engelsk Wikipedia:

Francis 1 of Saxe-Lauenburg (1510 – 19 March 1581, Buxtehude) was the eldest child and only son of Duke Magnus 1 of Saxe-Lauenburg and Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1488 – 29 July 1563, Neuhaus), daughter of Duke Henry 4 the Evil of Brunswick and Lunenburg (Wolfenbüttel).

Francis 1 succeeded his father in 1543 as duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, but resigned in favour of his major son Magnus 2 in 1571. Two years later he reascended and was succeeded by Francis 2 in 1581.

With his thriftiness Francis 1 deeply plunged Saxe-Lauenburg into debts, to this end he pawned most of the ducal demesnes to his creditors. In 1550 Francis 1 wielded his influence to make the chapter of the neighbouring Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg elect his 7-year-old son Magnus as coming prince-bishop, however, the capitular canons refused.

Heavily indebted and with no further need for good relations with the prince-bishopric Francis 1 looted Ratzeburg Cathedral in 1552. In 1558 he conquered the prince-episcopal Bridgettine Monastery of Marienwohlde near Mölln, looted and demolished the cloister, forced its vassal farmers to swear him loyalty and pay him dues, and started overfelling in the monasterial woods, selling the timber abroad.

In 1571 – highly indebted – Francis 1 resigned in favour of his eldest son Magnus 2, who had promised to redeem the pawned ducal demesnes with funds he gained as Swedish military commander and by his marriage to a Swedish princess. However, Magnus did not redeem pawns but further alienated ducal possessions, which ignited a conflict between Magnus and his father and brothers Francis (2) and Maurice as well as the estates of the duchy, further escalating due to Magnus' violent temperament.

In 1573 Francis 1 deposed Magnus and reascended to the throne while Magnus fled to Sweden, the homeland of his wife Sophia Vasa of Sweden. The following year Magnus hired troops in order to take Saxe-Lauenburg with violence. Francis 2, an experienced military commander in imperial service, and Duke Adolphus of Holstein-Gottorp, then Lower Saxon circular chief (German: Kreisobrist), helped Francis I to defeat Magnus.
In return Saxe-Lauenburg had to cede the bailiwick of Steinhorst to Adolphus' Holstein-Gottorp in 1575. Francis 2 again helped his father to inhibit Magnus' second military attempt to overthrow his father in 1578. Francis 1 then made Francis II his vicegerent actually governing the duchy.

In 1581 - shortly before he died and after consultations with his son Prince-Archbishop Henry of Bremen and Emperor Rudolph 2, but unconcerted with his other sons Magnus and Maurice - Francis 1 made his third son Francis 2, whom he considered the ablest, his sole successor, violating the rules of primogeniture. This severed the anyway difficult relations with the estates of the duchy, which fought the ducal practice of growing indebtedness.

On 8 February 1540 Francis 1 married in Dresden Sibylle of Saxony (Freiberg, 2 May 1515 – 18 July 1592, Buxtehude), daughter of Henry 4, Duke of Saxony. They had the following children:

1. Albert (1542 – 1544).

2. Dorothea (Lüneburg, 11 March 1543 – 5 April 1586, Herzberg am Harz), married Wolfgang, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1531 – 1595).

3. Magnus 2 (1543 – 14 May 1603, Ratzeburg).

4. Ursula (1545 – 22 October 1620, Schernebeck), married in 1569 Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg.

5. Francis 2 (1547 – 1619).

6. Henry (1 November 1550 – 22 April 1585, Vörde), as Henry 3 Prince-Archbishop of Bremen (1567–1585), as well as Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück (Henry 2, 1574–1585) and Paderborn (Henry 1, 1577–1585), married Anna von Broich
Maurice (1551 – 1612), married in 1581 Katharina von Spörck, divorced in 1582.

7. Sidonia Catharina (?– 1594), married in 1567 (1) Wenceslaus 3 Adam, Duke of Cieszyn and in 1586 (2) Emmerich 3 Forgach, Upper Gespan of the Duchy of Teschen
Frederick (1554 – 1586, Cologne), canon at the Cologne and Bremen Cathedrals.

Illegitimate children with Else Rautenstein were:

8. Franz Rautenstein (? – after 26 December 1618).

9. Katharina Rautenstein (1565 – 1587), married in 1579 Johann Grotjan.

Franz married Sibylle av Sachsen on 08 Feb 1540 in Dresden, Sachsen, Tyskland. Sibylle (daughter of Heinrich av Sachsen, "Heinrich 4" and Katarina av Mecklenburg) was born on 02 May 1515 in Freiberg, Sachsen, Tyskland; died on 18 Jul 1592 in Buxtehude, Hamburg, Tyskland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Sibylle of Saxony (2 May 1515 in Freiberg – 18 July 1592 in Buxtehude) was a Saxon princess of the Albertine line of House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Sibylle was the eldest child of the Duke Henry 4 of Saxony (1473–1541) from his marriage to Catherine of Mecklenburg (1487–1561), daughter of the Duke Magnus 2 of Mecklenburg.

She married on 8 February 1540 in Dresden Duke Francis 1 of Saxe-Lauenburg (1510–1581). This relationship turned out to be important for Sibylle's brother Maurice during the Schmalkaldic War.
The marriage proved unhappy and Francis accused Sibylle of vindictive and unloving acts.
In later years, Sibylle and Francis reconciled again. In 1552, Sibylle asked her brother Maurice to financially assist her husband, so he could redeem some goods and villages from Lübeck.

In 1588, the Duchess played a prominent role in the affair of her son Maurice, who lived in Buxtehude in the Altkloster Abbot's House since 1585-1586, with Adam von Tschammer's wife Gisela against whom she initiated a trial witchcraft.

Sibylle died in 1592 in Buxtehude and was buried in the Cathedral of Ratzeburg.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Bef 1553, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Tyskland; Färber, Bürgermeister von Köln.

Notes:

Birth:
Bror til Konrad von Betzdorf (1518–1586), Stadtsyndicus, Vizekanzler und 1567 Rektor der Universität Köln, Verfasser der Kölner Prozessordnung.

Occupation:
Die Familie von Betzdorf, auch Betzdorff bzw. Ermarts, ist ein Adelsgeschlecht aus dem Westerwald, das an der mittleren Sieg begütert war und in den Diensten des Hauses Sayn stand. Zweige der Familie bestehen bis heute.

Die Familie benannte sich nach dem gleichnamigen Ort Betzdorf an der Sieg, in dem auch ihr Stammsitz, das Junkernhaus, ein vermutlich aus dem späten 14. Jahrhundert stammendes, heute stark modern überformtes Burghaus in der nördlichen Siegschleife, stand. Die Familie gehörte zu den Geschlechtern, die drei schräggestellte Rauten im Wappen trugen.

Wappenähnlichkeit und zahlreiche familiäre Verflechtungen sprechen dafür, dass sie ursprünglich zur Verwandtschaft der Edelfreien von Nister gehörten, zu der neben Grafenfamilien auch niederadelige Geschlechter zählten. Anzunehmen ist, dass die von Betzdorf aus den von Gevertzhagen (Gebhardshain) hervorgingen. Dafür sprechen die mutmaßliche Tingierung des Wappens, die räumliche Nähe und nicht zuletzt eine Häufung gleicher Vornamen. Es ist durchaus möglich, dass die von Betzdorf die Rauten in Schwarz, rechtsschräggestellt auf einem silbernen Balken führten. Wahrscheinlicher ist, dass sie, wie die von Gevertzhagen, die drei Rauten in Silber (evtl. mit goldenem Rand) auf rotem Grund geführt haben.
Als Helmzier, wenngleich nicht gesichert, ein Eber wachsend, der dem Wappen der Grafen zu Freusburg entlehnt scheint.

Im Jahr 1271 erscheint ein Ritter Hermann von Betsendorp in einer Schenkungsurkunde an das Kloster Dünnwald bei Köln. Ab 1360 beginnt mit Johann zu Betzdorf die gesicherte Stammreihe.
Dessen Söhne Johann, Wilhelm und Arnd waren Parteigänger des fehdefreudigen Junggrafen Gerhard 1. von Sayn und begleiteten diesen bei seinen Auseinandersetzungen. Dafür wurde Johann 1398 mit dem Struthof als Burglehen und dem Burgsitz zu Freusburg belehnt.
In den folgenden Jahrhunderten erhielt die Familie dieses gräfliche Lehen immer wieder zugesprochen.
In saynischen Diensten versahen ihre Angehörigen Hofämter, fungierten als Amtmänner und Burgsassen zu Freusburg oder waren geistliche Würdenträger. Seit 1609 nennt sich dieser Zweig Ermart bzw. Ermert, der neue Familienname leitet sich ab von dem Vorfahren Ermbrecht von Betzdorf. Der saynische Amtmann Avemann vermerkte 1742 hierzu:

dass die Vasallen, Ermarts genannt, mit den vorhergehenden von Betzdorf einerlei Geschlecht (sind).

1624, während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges, als Kurtrier die Herrschaft über Freusburg übernahm, ging der Familie das Lehen verloren, doch gelang es 1653, nach Rückgabe der Herrschaft an das Haus Sayn, Teile des Lehensgutes zurück zu erwerben. Neben dem Struthofer Lehen besaßen die von Betzdorf, ganz oder zeitweise, Güter und Besitzungen in den Ämtern Freusburg und Hachenburg, darunter das Burghaus nebst freiadeligem Stammgut in Betzdorf, das Burgmannenhaus mit Ländereien in Freusburg, Güter in Hachenburg sowie Höfe in Alsdorf und in Seifen bei Molzhain. Später, nach 1650, auch Höfe in Scheuerfeld, Wissen und Imhausen.

Die Nebenlinie von Betzdorf zu Hachenburg, nachgewiesen bis Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts, hatte Besitztümer in Elkenroth, Korb und Hachenburg. Deren Mitglieder traten als Edelknechte auf, waren Geistliche oder als Beamte und Schöffen der Grafen in der Herrschaft Hachenburg tätig. Von 1437 bis 1508 versahen sie dort fast durchgängig das Amt des Rentmeisters, des leitenden Finanzbeamten der gesamten Grafschaft, zwischen 1454 und 1471 auch das Stadtschultheißenamt. Im engen Umkreis der Grafen standen zudem Gerhard von Betzdorf, der als Erbempfänger Zeuge der letzten Willensbekundung des Grafen Gerhard 2. war. Die Brüder Wilhelm und Heinrich traten im Jahr 1494 als Zeugen der Erbteilung zwischen Gerhard 3. und dessen Bruder Sebastian 1. auf. Gemeinsam mit der Grafenfamilie und anderen Familien der Region gehörten die von Betzdorf der 1292 gegründeten Bruderschaft - Unserer Lieben Frau - an, die sich um das Wohl der Armen im Siegtal kümmerte. Darüber hinaus belegen Urkunden diverse Stiftungen und Zuwendungen an die Abteien Marienstatt und Michaelsberg, in denen einige Familienangehörige Mönche und Ordensgeistliche waren und dort oftmals das Amt des Kellers innehatten.

Eine andere Seitenlinie, die von Betzdorf zu Au, war von 1533 bis zu ihrem Aussterben im Mannesstamm 1581 im Besitz des Adelshofes Au bei Morsbach. Ein Zweig der Hachenburger Linie hatte sich um 1530 in Köln niedergelassen, bewohnte dort das - Kapellenhaus - besaß den Betzdorfer Hof in der Nähe von Bonn und gehörte zur städtischen Oberschicht. Diesem entstammte Konrad von Betzdorf (1518–1586), Stadtsyndicus und Gesandter der Reichsstadt, Humanist und 1567 Rektor der Universität Köln. Die Familie ist dort über drei Generationen bis in das 17. Jahrhundert nachweisbar. Letztgenannter führte ein abgeändertes Wappen mit drei schräggestellten Schwalben anstatt der drei Rauten.

Kilde:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betzdorf_%28Adelsgeschlecht%29

Hellmuth Gensicke: Die von Wallmenroth genannt Beuinghausen, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 1970, s.91-92.
Hellmuth Gensicke: Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes, Wiesbaden 1958.
Hermann Knodt: Vorarbeiten zum hessischen Wappenbuch (unveröffentlicht), Material Wappen Ermert, in: Hauptstaatsarchiv Darmstadt, Best.O 64, Nr. 1465.
Herbert M. Schleicher (Bearb.): Die genealogisch-heraldische Sammlung des Kanonikus Johann Gabriel von der Ketten in Köln, Bd. 1, Köln 1983.
Humbert Schmidt: Betzdorfer als Burgsassen, Studenten, Beamte, Geistliche und Wohltäter, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 33 (1990), s.197-204.
Humbert Schmidt: Dr. Konrad Betzdorf, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 1974.
Wilhelm Söhngen: Geschichte der Stadt Hachenburg, Wiesbaden 1914.
Erich Vierbuchen: Alles lebt hier vom Bergbau und vom Hüttenbetrieb. Familiengeschichtliches saynischer Gewerkenfamilien des 18. Jahrhunderts. 2. Teil, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 35 (1992), s.217-225.
August Wolf, Geschichte von Betzdorf, 1951.
Rolf Zobel: Wappen an Mittelrhein und Mosel, Norderstedt 2009, Tafel 30.

Died:
Døde av pest.

Heinrich married Ursula von Breinich, "von Broich" / "von Linner". [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Ursulas første ektemann, Ratsherr in Köln Heinrich von Linner/Lynner, døde i 1529.

Heinrich von Linner ecame a Cologne citizen 1517, and was an active councillor and municipal officer, living in the parish of St.Laurenz. His first wife was Hilwich (Heilwigis).
Daughter Sevis married to the jurist Conrad von Betzdorf.

Kilde:
Confabulations. Cologne Life and Humanism in Hermann Schotten's Confabulationes tironum litterariorum, Cologne 1525.