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Descendants of HERMAN MENNONITE OP-DEN-GRAEFF

Generation No. 1

1. HERMAN MENNONITE⁷ OP-DEN-GRAEFF (JOHN-WILLIAM CRESCENT SON OF⁶ CLEVES, WILLIAM IV OF⁵, JOHN III OF⁴, JOHN II OF³, JOHN I OF², ADOLPHUS I OF¹)^1,^2,^3,^4,⁵ was born 1585 in Aldekerk of Cleves, Germany, and died 1642 in Krefeld, Germany. He married MARGARETE PLETGES⁶ 1605 in Kempen, Germany, daughter of ANDREAS PLETGES and ADELHEID GOEBELS. She was born 1588 in Kempen, Germany, and died 1643 in Krefeld, Germany.

Notes for HERMAN MENNONITE OP-DEN-GRAEFF:
HERMEN OP DEN GRAAF VAN DE ALDEKERK (1585--1642); from a Dutch version of the Scheuten manuscript in Krefeld, Germany;

THE BEND-SINISTER (nonhereditary son) OF THE CRESCENT (second nobleborn son) OF CLEVES; whose Cologne Glass Panes (AD 1630) in their current format (1983) display the Holy Mary of the Arms of Julich, the Lohengrin Swan of the Arms of Cleves, the Woestenraedt Swan of the Arms of Aldekerk and Burtscheid van Aken (Aachen), the Triple Lilies of the Arms of the Bishop of Munster, as an alleged BEND-SINISTER (nonhereditary son) of John William of Cleves (1562--1609); in the 19th generation of descent from Lohengrin of Lorraine (AD 1000), Guardian of the Holy Grail (before its return to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1099 by Godfrey of Bouillon);

Alleged grandnephew of Anne of Cleves (1515--1557), the 1540 Queen of England; nonhereditary Baron in the Order of the Holy Roman Empire, displaying the batons of Altena and Geldern in the form of the BEND-SINISTER over the Lohengrin Swan of the Arms of Cleves.

Signer of the Mennonite CONFESSION OF DORDRECHT (1632); Cloth merchant and linen dealer; the Mennonite Lord Bishop (Mennisten Herr Bischoff) of Krefeld, Germany;

Guardian (1615) of the four Franciscan Nuns (the three Sisters von Brackel and Sister Gudula von Arft) and their Lay Companion, believed to be his mother, ANNA VAN DE ALDEKERK, buried at the Aldekerk Cloister Woestenraedt (or Aldekerk Cloister West) as a morganatic widow and nun.

Survived by 3 sons and 6 daughters in 1642 (taken from composite charts in English, Dutch, and German, listing some 19 names of infants, respelled in three languages, called the Scheuten manuscripts of Cologne and Krefeld and Weirhof). (Note posted April 2005).

Children of HERMAN OP-DEN-GRAEFF and MARGARETE PLETGES are:

	2	i.	HESTER⁸ OP-DEN-GRAEFF, born 1609 in Krefeld, Germany; died 1643 in Krefeld, Germany. She married ISAAC VAN-BEBBER; born Abt. 1609 in Krefeld, Germany.
	3	ii.	ABRAHAM HERMANS OP-DEN-GRAEFF, born 1610; died 1656. He married EVA VAN-DER-LEYEN; born Abt. 1610.
	4	iii.	CATHARINA TRINKEN OP-DEN-GRAEFF, born 1612 in Krefeld, Germany; died 1658 in Gladbach, Germany.
+	5	iv.	AGNES HILLEKEN OP-DEN-GRAEFF, born 1614 in Krefeld, Germany; died 1691 in Krefeld, Germany.
+	6	v.	ISAAK HERMANS OP-DEN-GRAEFF, born 1616 in Europe, Germany, Krefeld; died 1679 in Europe, Germany, Krefeld.
	7	vi.	DERRICK HERMANS OP-DEN-GRAEFF, born 1621; died 1655.
+	8	vii.	ADELHEID ALLETGEN OP-DEN-GRAEFF, born 1623 in Krefeld, Germany; died 1706 in Rheindahlen, Germany.
	9	viii.	SOPHIA TEIKEN OP-DEN-GRAEFF, born 1628. She married EVERT LUCASSEN; born Abt. 1628.
	10	ix.	SUSANNA OP-DEN-GRAEFF, born 1629; died 1714.

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