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Riedesel Richard [Male] b. ABT 1525 Olpe - d. BEF 1569 Lochtrop
Mentioned in 1543, as a knight in 1559.
Documented mentions in 1564, 1572, 1590 and 1604-1610.
As a widow in 1572 she sold rights to the Oberberg to Diederich von Plettenburg.
He is cited as a knight in 1560, 1564 and 1570. On record as possessing the Olpe Rittergut in 1566.
zu Blessenohl
Said to have murdered his brother Tönnes zu Wildshausen in the course of an inheritance dispute and fled from Olpe (1569?).
Became a citizen (Bürger) of Attendorn. References in 1600-1612, 1615, 1624.
Peter Joseph Strange (1867) claims that Reinhold had a wife named Elisabeth, but that he died young and left her with three children: Wilhelm, Helena, and Elisabeth. The widow and children supposedly foresook all claims to the house in Olpe. This does not jibe with modern research showing that he lived into the 1620s.
Tenant in Schmieds Haus, Elsoff.
Tenant in Schmieds Haus, Elsoff.
Tenant in Schmieds Haus, Elsoff.
Tenant in Schmieds Haus, Elsoff. Also called Theiss.
Tenant in Schmieds Haus, Elsoff.
First known tenant in Schmieds Haus, Elsoff.
Attempted to leave (illegally) for East Prussia in 1725 as a widow with the three children.
Bürgermeister of Fredeburg
Source
Title: Beiträge zur Genealogie der adligen Geschlechter, Heft 4, 1867. Peter Joseph Strange
zu Grevenstein, zu Wildeshausen
von zu Wildshausen
Tenant in Pauls Haus, Elsoff, but born in Veltes.
Tenant in Schmieds Haus, Elsoff.
Tenant in Schmieds Haus, Elsoff.
Tenant in Veltes house in Elsoff.
Came to the U.S. through Canada in about 1906. Was an eighth child.
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