House of Bylandt
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| House of Bylandt Germany, The Netherlands, Austria |
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| Country: | Germany | ||
| Parent house: | House founded | ||
| Titles: | Count of Bylandt, Baron of Rheydt | ||
| Founder: | Dietrich de Bylandt | ||
| Founding year: | 1294 | ||
| Ethnicity: | German | ||
| Cadet branches: | Bylandt-Rheydt Bylandt-Well Bylandt-Halt-Spaldorf |
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The house of Bylandt is the name of an ancient house of the nobility originating in the Lower Rhine region. It later split into the cadet branches of Bylandt-Well, Bylandt-Rheydt and Bylandt-Halt-Spaldorf.
[edit] History
The first tracable ancestors of the house of Bylandt were known by the name of Doys. The first tracable member of this name is Wilhelmus dictus Doys (1260) who died in the Battle of Worringen. Doys is mentioned in 1275 as being the owner of Castle Scate, then a fiefom of the Counts (and later Dukes) of Cleves. Doys son Dietrich became the first person to use "de Bylandt" as his house name (1294). From then on all descendants use the name Bylandt. From then on the Bylandt family became steadily more powerful and acquired vast amounts of land. The title Marshal of the County of Cleves also stayed in the family for a long time. In 1500 the three cadet branches formed. The first branch, Bylandt-Well became the owners of Gut in Geldern but soon died out. The second, Bylandt-Rheydt inherited Rheydt, later calling themselves Baron of Rheydt, and gained control of much land, including land in Austria, The Netherlands and the remaining Germany. They were later made Knights of the Empire. The third cadet branch Bylandt-Halt-Spaldorf gained control of the Castles of Halt and Spaldorf in Westphalia and became Freiherren.
[edit] See also
- Bernhard, Count of Bylandt (1905 - 1998) professor of art, author
- Arthur Maximilian, Count of Bylandt (1821 - 1891), politician, Austrian Minister of Defence
- Schloss Rheydt family seat of the Bylandt-Rheydts
