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Male Baltahser Rittinghuysen Click to view Baltahser Rittinghuysen in the family tree

Baltahser was born in 1525 in Celle, Germany.1   Baltahser's father was Henry Nicholas Rettinghausen and his mother was Anna Of Bohemia.  His paternal grandparents were King Philip Von Hapsburg and Joanna Trastamara; his maternal grandparents were Ladislas Ii Jagiellonczyk and Anne De Foix. He had two brothers and nine sisters, named Ferdinand, Karl, Isabella, Elisabeth, Anna, Maria, Magdalena, Katharine, Eleonore, Barbara and Johanna.  He was the second oldest of the twelve children.  He died at the age of 51 in 1576 in Germany.1 


Baltahser's family with Margaretha Berg

They had four sons and two daughters, named Ernst, Matthias, Maximiliam, Conradi, Elisabeth and Margarethe.

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