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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 452 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AREMBERG, or ARENBERG  , formerly a German duchy of the
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Empire in the circle of the Rhine Palatinate, between Jtilich and Cologne, and now belonging to the Prussian administrative
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district of Coblenz . The
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hamlet of Aremberg is at the
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foot of a
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basalt hill 2067 ft. high, on the
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summit of which are the ruins of the castle which was the
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original seat of the
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family of Aremberg . The lords of Aremberg first appear early in the 12th century, but had died out in the male
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line by 1279 . From the
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marriage of the heiress Mathilda (1282–1299) with Engelbert II., count of La Marck (d . 1328), sprang two sons . The elder of these, Adolf II, (d . 1347), inherited the countship of La Marck; the second, Engelbert III . (d . 1387), the lordship of Aremberg, which he increased by his marriage with
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Marie de Looz, heiress of Lumain . The lordship of Aremberg remained in his family till 1547, when it passed, by his marriage with Margaret,
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sister of the childless Robert III., to John of Barbancon, of the
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great house of Ligne, who assumed the name and arms of Aremberg, and was created a count of the Empire by Charles V . He was governor of Friesland, and for a while commanded the
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Spanish and Catholic forces against the " beggars," falling at the
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battle of Heiligerlee in 1568 . His son Charles (d .

1618) greatly in-creased the possessions of the house by his marriage with

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Ann of Croy, heiress of Croy and of
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Chimay-Aerschot, and in 1576 was made prince of the Empire by Maximilian II . His grandson, Philip Francis, was made duke in 1644 by the emperor Ferdinand III., and was succeeded by his
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brother Charles
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Eugene (d . 1681), who married Marie Henriette de Vergy de Cusance, heiress of Perwez (d . 1700) . Their son, Duke Philip Charles Francis, was killed in 1691 fighting against the
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Turks, and was succeeded by Leopold (1754), a distinguished soldier of the War of the Spanish Succession, and
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patron of Rousseau and Voltaire . His son Charles (d . 1778) was an
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Austrian field-marshal during the Seven Years' War, and married Louise Margaret of La Marck-Lumain, heiress of the countship of Schleiden and lordship of Saffenberg . By the peace of
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Luneville (
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February 1801), the next duke, Louis Engelbert, lost the greater
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part of his ancestral domain, but received in compensation Meppen and Recklinghausen . On the establishment of the
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con-federation of the Rhine, his son Prosper Louis (to whom, becoming blind, he had ceded his domains in 1803) became a member (18o6), and showed great devotion to the interests of France; but in 1810 he Jost his
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sovereignty,
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Napoleon incorporating Meppen with France and Recklinghausen with the
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grand-duchy of Berg, and indemnifying him by a
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rent of 240,702 francs . In 1815 he received back his possessions, which were mediatized by the congress of Vienna, Recklinghausen falling to Prussia and Meppen to Hanover . On account of the one portion he became a peer of the Westphalian estates, and by the other a member of the upper house in Hanover . George IV. of England (9th May 1826) elevated the duke's Hanoverian possessions to a dukedom under the title of Aremberg Meppen .

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Raymond, Comte de la Marck (1753-1833), became famous during the early stages of the French Revolution for his friendship with Mirabeau (q.v.) . Duke Prosper Louis died in 1861, and was succeeded by his son Engelbert (d . 1875), who was followed in his turn by his son Engelbert (b . 1872) . The duke of Aremberg is one of the wealthiest of the great
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continental nobles . His feudal domain in Germany covers an
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area of over 1too sq. m., besides which he has large estates in Belgium and France . The duke has residences in Brussels, where he has a famous collection of pictures, and at the chateau of Klemenswerth near Meppen .

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