Unknown Averheyde (abt. 1635)

Born about 1635 in Markkotten Overin, Pye, Wallenhorst, Iburg, Osnabrück, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Biography

Unknown Averheyde was born in the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück

This profile is part of the Wallenhorst, Niedersachsen One Place Study.

After the Peace of Westphalia was signed in 1648, Osnabrück was not a pleasant sight and was heavily indebted, with debts exceeding 5 million talers. The Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück had been gifted to Gustaf Gustavsson by the Swedish Queen. In exchange for its transfer back to Bishop Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg, Gustavson was supposed to receive 80,000 talers, which had to be paid in four annual instalments. Since Gustavson was only obliged to leave after the full repayment of the debt, the Osnabrück government offered to pay 85,000 talers immediately when he left instantly. In October 1649, Bishop Franz Wilhelm held a Landtag (=assembly) under the tree Hohe Linde near the Oesede Monastery, where it was decided that every person over the age of 12 in the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück had to pay a double head tax. This affected not only the cathedral provost, monks, nuns and priests but also farmers and peasants. The October 10, 1649 decree did not spare even the poor and homeless. After receiving his compensation, Gustavsson and the Swedes left the diocese on November 30, 1650.

The residents of the Overin Markkotten farm had to pay the following fees to support the effort:^[1]

• Averheyde cum uxore: 11 shillings,
  • 2 tochter: 4 shillings,

for a total of 15 shillings.

This suggests that the family had two daughters residing at the farmstead, and both were older than 12 years, suggesting birth years of 1637 and 1635.

Research Notes

Name

What do we know about the name of Unknown Averheyde?

Since the spelling variations for given and last names varied across the different sources and their authors, the following sourced list provides the variations known to date:

• We know that Averheyde had a wife and two daughters in 1649.^[1] But we do not know the given names of the two daughters.

Birth/Baptism

What do we know about the birth/baptism of Unknown Averheyde?

• We know that Averheyde had a wife and two daughters in 1649. They were both above 12 years old, and therefore one is estimated to have been born in 1635, the other in 1637.^[1]

Marriage

What do we know about the marriage of Unknown Averheyde?

• We have not found evidence, yet, that Unknown Averheyde might have been married.

Children

What do we know about the children of Unknown Averheyde?

• We have not found evidence, yet, that Unknown Averheyde might have had children.

Death/Burial

What do we know about the death/burial of Unknown Averheyde?

• We have not found evidence about her death yet.
• She was alive in 1649, and must have passed away after that.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Osnabrück (1649): Veranschlagung eines außerordentlichen Kopfschatzes zur Abfindung der Schweden, NLA OS Rep 100 Abschnitt 88 Nr. 44, foil 131, image 133 in the digital copy at Arcinsys.