Limburg-Hohenlimburg

Theodericus comes senior de Lymburg & Everhardus comes de Lymburg appear as heir in the line,[1] with the edge lettering of his seal COMITIS EV(erhar)DI LIMBURGE(nsis) On coins of his descendants THEODERI-COMES.

[2] Other grandsons, Diederik II lord of Stirum and brother Frederik canon in Cologne, were not short of anything.

Were, not hear of the line but as descendants, richly endowed with allodial estates, Stirum castle and associated lordship.

There was no straight fief and primogeniture, but a well-considered balance between the then legitimate inheritance rights of his three grandsons and two granddaughters.

Limburg-Hohenlimburg became a possession of the counts of Bentheim at the end of the 16th century, who kept it until it was mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1808.