Christoph Bernhard Freiherr von Galen (12 October 1606, in Drensteinfurt – 19 September 1678) was Prince-bishop of Münster. He was born into a noble Westphalian...
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(1541–1594), humanist, legal scholar, Greek scholar and historian Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1606–1678), Bishop of Münster, Coesfeld built from a bishopric...
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Nassau-Siegen and Hans Willem van Aylva against the troops led by Christoph Bernhard von Galen, the battle resulted in a Dutch victory and led to the town being...
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Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen had three chapels (O, P and Q) built onto the ambulatory, south of the armaria. These chapels, called the Von Galenschen...
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III of Prussia. Christoph Bernhard von Galen, prince-bishop of Münster during the Counter-Reformation. Clemens August Graf von Galen, better known as...
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against the advancing French troops and troops of Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen of Münster. In August 1675 he returned to Plön, where he took...
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Bourtange faced another siege in 1672 against invading forces of Christoph Bernhard von Galen the Prince-Bishop of Münster, France's German ally in the Franco-Dutch...
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that can be fired against ships. These weapons had been used by Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Bishop of Munster, in the Siege of Groningen (1672) - thus provoking...
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of Borculo in February 1616 after short combat. Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen tried twice to keep Borculo under Munster's authority, but without...
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the smoke. In 1672, during his siege of the city of Groningen, Christoph Bernhard von Galen, the Bishop of Münster, employed several different explosive...
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Bernard Johan Prott who was the commander of Bourtange in 1672. Christoph Bernhard von Galen, the Prince-bishop of Münster had allegedly offered Prott ƒ200...
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towns passed from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the bishop. Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1650–78) was equally efficient both as bishop and as secular...
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1683) October 12 Robert Barnham, English politician (d. 1685) Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Westphalian Catholic prince-bishop of Münster and military leader...
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the states-general, he repelled the invasion, and the bishop, Christoph Bernhard von Galen, nicknamed "Bommen Berend", was forced to conclude peace. His...
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Roman Empire. Von Westphalen's father, Christoph Bernhard, Count of Galen, was the head of the House of Galen and served in the Papal household. Her mother...
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death he was in the service of the Prince Bishop of Münster, Christoph Bernhard von Galen. Heimbach's most important work is his painting of the homage...
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local area to recover from the devastation of the war. After Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Bishop of Münster became prince and administrator of the abbey...
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Reformwille. Ein neuer Blick auf Ferdinand von Fürstenberg (1626–83) und sein Verhältnis zu Christoph Bernhard von Galen und Niels Stensen. In: Westfalen, Hefte...
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Philipp von Schönborn or Münster's Christoph Bernhard von Galen, some of them promoted Enlightenment like the benevolent and progressive Franz Ludwig von Erthal...
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was fought between Münster and the Dutch Republic. In 1665, Christoph Bernhard von Galen, the bishop of Münster, secretly constructed a road from Walchum...
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of Borculo in February 1616 after short combat. Prince Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen, tried twice more to keep Borculo under Münster's authority,...
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Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter (b. 1603) September 19 – Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Westphalian Catholic prince-bishop of Münster and military leader...
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mobile field army. The Roman Catholic Prince-Bishop of Münster, Christoph Bernhard von Galen, who was intent on extending his power and who, until 22 April...
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this chapel was expanded in a Gothic style. Under Prince Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1650–1678), the tower was raised by one floor. Towards the end...
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1683) October 12 Robert Barnham, English politician (d. 1685) Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Westphalian Catholic prince-bishop of Münster and military leader...
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the end of the Thirty Years' War when, in 1652, Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen secured their withdrawal for a large sum of money. The prince-bishop...
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meter (39 inches). During the siege of Munster by Prince Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen on December 18, 1660, two earth walls collapsed, cutting off...
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Commander Carl von Rabenhaupt, Baron at Sucha, whose headquarters in 1673-1674, in his campaign against Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Prince-Bishop of...
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Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter (b. 1603) September 19 – Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Westphalian Catholic prince-bishop of Münster and military leader...
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Münster unter Christoph Bernhard von Galen 1650 – 1678 [The secret codes of the prince-bishopric Münster under Christoph Bernhard von Galen 1650 – 1678]...
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