Anna van Ewsum
Anna van Ewsum was a rich Dutch noblewoman.
Biography
Anna van Ewsum was born in 1640 as the only child of Willem van Ewsum and Margaretha Beata von Freitag zu Gödens. Her mother was a descendant of a wealthy German family from the County of East Frisia. Her father was Lord of Nienoord, Vredewold and Noordwijk: upon his death in 1643, Anna van Ewsum became the Lady of the same.In 1645, her mother remarried to Rudolf Wilhelm zu Innhausen und Knyphausen, a diplomat of the States General of the Netherlands with whom she had two children: Haro Caspar and Maria Elisabeth.
In 1657, Anna van Ewsum married Carl Hieronymus von Inn- und Knyphausen, the brother of her stepfather. He changed his name to the Dutch equivalent of his German name, Carel Hieronymus van Inn- en Kniphuisen. When he died, Anna ordered a sepulchral monument for her husband and herself from the sculptor Rombout Verhulst, to be placed in the local church of Midwolde.
In 1665 Anna remarried to Georg Wilhelm van Inn- en Kniphuisen, a nephew of her stepfather and her late husband. They had one son, Carel Ferdinand van Inn- en Kniphuisen, who after her death becomes Lord of Nienoord etc. In 1694 Freiherr Georg Wilhelm was made Count by the Holy Roman Emperor. When he died in 1709, Anna ordered a sculpture by Bartholomeus Eggers to be added to the monument. In 1714, Anna van Ewsum died in 1714 and is buried in the church together with her husbands.