At his death, Hermann Otto divided his possessions amongst his three sons. •
Otto received
Bronckhorst,
Borculo and all the Dutch possessions; he founded the older line of the
House, still alive today in Belgium and the Netherlands. •
Adolf reigned over
Gemen and Illereichen until his death in 1657. He founded the line of Limburg Stirum Gemen. In 1782, with extinction of Gemen branch, Gemen was passed to the Barons of Bomelberg in 1800, and was
mediatized to the Princes of Salm-Kyrburg in 1806. It passed to France in 1810, then to Prussia in 1814. •
Moritz received the ownership of
Mülheim an der Ruhr and thereby of the
immediate lordship of
Styrum, and later
Oberstein. Here he founded the line of counts of Limburg-Styrum-Styrum, extinct in 1809. In the mediatisation of 1806,
Styrum came under control of the Grand
Duchy of Berg. Oberstein was
mediatized at the
Treaty of Lunéville in 1801, however the Limburg Stirum were never compensated by the
Final Recess in 1803. All members of the
House of Limburg-Stirum descend from Hermann Otto, but also a great number of monarchs, such as the present members of the
Habsburg-family, the
king of Belgium and the
Grand-Duke of Luxemburg. ==References==