- The
House of
Cirksena was the
ruling family of East
Frisia (German: Ostfriesland). They
descended from a line of East
Frisian chieftains from Greetsiel...
-
Edzard Cirksena (born:
Edzard Edzardisna; died: 1441) was an East
Frisian chieftain at Greetsiel, Norden,
Emden and Brokmerland. He and his
father Enno...
- of
Ulrich Cirksena, the
later founder of the
County of East Frisia. His son, Hero Oomkens, on the
other hand,
turned away from the
Cirksena dynasty and...
- – 30 June 1708, Aurich) was a
Prince of East
Frisia from the
House of
Cirksena from the day he was born in 1665, but
remained under guardianship until...
- IV,
Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1493–1574) and his
first wife,
Margaret Cirksena (1500–1537),
daughter of
Edzard I,
Count of East Frisia. One
author theorized...
- of the
Cirksena family and
succeeded his
brother Enno
Louis as
ruler of East Frisia. He
ruled from 1660 to 1665.
Under his reign, the
Cirksena family...
- of East
Frisia fell to
Prussia following the
extinction of its
ruling Cirksena dynasty. In the last 23
years of his
reign until 1786,
Frederick II, who...
- on,
among others, the coats-of-arms of Rietberg, Liechtenstein, and the
Cirksena.
Among the
earliest examples is the city of Nuremberg's device,
which used...
-
counts and
princes of East
Frisia from the East
Frisian noble House of
Cirksena descended from a line of East
Frisian chieftains from Greetsiel. The county...
- same name. The
monastery was
founded in 1437 by the
chieftain family of
Cirksena. They gave the old
parish church of
Appingen to the
Carmelite order. Originally...
