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From: Steven Lavallee <>
Subject: Re: Duke fo SCHOMBERG
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 18:44:18 -0500

>Friends,
>This may be getting a little late for Gen-Medieval.

Not at all. The charter of this group states
that discussion of royal and noble genealogy
of all time periods is welcome here.

But have recently
>learned of a forebear who is mentioned in the Will of the 1st Duke of
>Schomberg who lived during the 1600s.
>
>I was wondering whether anyone here might be able to tell me the name of
>this duke, and perhaps provide an outline of his life. We are particularly
>interested in his whereabouts at various times, as the forebear - David (or
>Jacob) Castris - was reputedly a French Huguenot.
>Thanks
>David Collyer
>Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

See Schwennicke's <Europ"aische Stammtafeln,> Bd.X,
Tafeln 26-28 (1986). It appears that there were
three Dukes of Sch"onburg/Schomberg, a father,
Friedrich Hermann (1615-1690) and his sons
Charles, 2nd Duke (1645-1693) and Meinrad,
3rd and last Duke (1641-1719).

Steven Benedict Lavallee

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