House of Plettenberg

The House of Plettenberg is the name of the

The Schwarzenberg branch was elevated to the rank of

In 1788, Baron Karl Wilhelm Plettenberg married Anna Luisa von Bodelschwingh, heiress of Bodelschwingh Castle at Dortmund, and changed his name to Baron von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg. His grandson Karl (1821-1907) was made Graf in 1888, and passed his title and estate to his only daughter Wilhelmine who married Baron Dodo Alexander zu Innhausen und Knyphausen (1835-1911). While their son Karl Moritz (1871-1958) and the grandson Edzard (b. 1905) still used the primogenital title Graf von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg, the present generation is only using the name Baron zu Innhausen und Knyphausen. They still own Bodelschwingh Castle.

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  Bamenohl House
• 
  Bodelschwingh House
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  Draiser Hof
• 
  Hilbeck House
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  Heeren Castle
• 
  Haus Mehrum
• 
  Sandfort Castle

Lenhausen Branch

Heidenreich von Plettenberg (ca 1450–1485), a second son of Haus Bamenohl, acquired the neighboring Lenhausen Castle near

• 
  Lenhausen Castle
• 
  Hovestadt Castle
• 
  Schloss Nordkirchen

Notable members

• Wolter von Plettenberg (around 1450–1535), Master of the Livonian Order
• Gertrud von Plettenberg (15??–1608), royal mistress of Prince-Elector-Archbishop of Cologne Ernest of Bavaria
• Matthieu van Plattenberg (1607/8–1660), Baroque painter, draughtsman, etcher and engraver
• prince bishop of Münster
• Prime Minister of the Electorate of Cologne
• Joachim van Plettenberg (1739–1793), Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and founder of Plettenberg Bay
• Adjutant General of the German Kaiser
• Kurt von Plettenberg (1891–1945), plenipotentiary of the House of Hohenzollern (the royal house of Prussia), one of the inner circle of the July 20th plot against Hitler
• Georg von Plettenberg
  (1918-1980), Colonel of the Bundeswehr

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