Everhard II van Limburg Hohenlimburg

Their great-uncles Hendrik and Diederik had previously died without descendants, while his uncle Kraft was canon of the Abbey of Essen.

At the request of mediators, after examining old rights, the judge of Kettwick on May 29, 1330, ruled in favor of Count Diederik van Limburg Hohenlimburg and son Everhard.

Count Reinoud II of Gelre,“the Black” of Guelders, had married Eduard's sister a few years earlier.

He acted in the river Rhein region as a sort of subcontractor for his brother-in-law, to recruit nobles as vassals for Eduard.

On May 26 “Datum apud Westmonasterium vicesimo sexto Maii” [3] he was ordered to pay Everhard of Limburg 100 small Florins.

undertook since July 1338 an important diplomatic and military missions on the continent, to obtain the French royal crown.

Accompanied by his representative court, on his way to the Niederwerth island located downstream near Koblenz, he had taken the route from Antwerp via Jülich, Cologne, Bonn,[4] Sinzig and Andernach.

Everhard II of Limburg Hohenlimburg died on November 11, 1344, before a very large plague epidemic (1348-1350) broke out in Western Europe.