Kies Family Line

1530-c. 1700 in Wurttemberg (at least 270 yrs). Then c. 1700-1857 in Luxembourg (about 150 yrs). Then 1857-present in Iowa/Wisconsin (over 150 yrs).

Iowa

Grandparents:

• Carol "Casey" Kies - Jesup, IA
• Mary Cecelia Schaeffer - Oelwein, IA

Great-grandparents:

• Valentine Kies
• Amanda Bertha Schmidt

Immigrated to Dubuque, Iowa in 1857

• Nicholas Kies of Kehlen, Luxemburg (b. 1807) and his wife....
• son, Peter (b. 1842),
• via Sheboygan, WI (where other Kies relatives settled)

Great-great-grandfather

Peter Kies (b. 1842)

3rd-Great-grandfather

Nicholas Kies (b. 1807)

Luxembourg

4th-great-grandparents:

• Petrus Kies - Kehlen, LUX - b. 1768
• Maria Nilles

5th-great-grandparents:

• Wiricus -
• Wirici KIES
  • Born 2 October 1735 - Kehlen, Luxembourg
  • Deceased 28 January 1793 - Kehlen, Luxembourg, aged 57 years old
  • Parents
    • Pierre KIES
    • Margaretha ?
  • Married to Josepha ETHAN (1736-1797) 2 February 1761, Bissen, Luxembourg. Children
    • F Elisabeth KIES 1761-1763
    • M Martinus KIES 1764-1767
    • F Catharina KIES 1766-1767
    • M Pierre KIES 1768-1813
    • M Joannes KIES 1770-
    • F Maria Catherine KIES 1772-
    • M Nicolas KIES 1774-1829
    • M Henri KIES 1777-
  • https://gw.geneanet.org/jbrown?n=kies&oc=&p=wirici (jbrown tree)
• Wiriens KIES
  • Married to Josepha ETIEN with
    • • M Petrus KIES

6th-great-grandparents:

Options:

Peter Kies	Peter KIES & Peter KIES (KEES)	Pierre KIES
Luxemburg - b. c. 1710 Margaretha ? in my notes but... (Margarita Weber - is listed in Family Search!) Family Search suggests G2HT-Z6K: b. 1710 Kehlen, Capellen, Luxembourg Parents Johann Jakob Kiess Anna Catharina Breuning Spouses and children Margarita Weber - m. 13 October 1726, b. 1710 Joana (1728-?), Dominicus (1731-?), Peter (1732-?), Weirici (1735-93), Weirici (1735-97)	Born 25 March 1711 - Schengen,,,,LUXEMBOURG Deceased about 1757, aged about 46 years old Parents Johann KIES ca 1680- Catharina N42 ca 1680- Spouses and children Married to Anna Maria Josepha SAUR (1722-1767) about 1739 [would be a later wife, since our Viricus b. 1735] with M Hubert KIES 1750-1823 https://gw.geneanet.org/clhurtut?n=kies&oc=&p=peter (clhurtut tree) Born 25 March 1711 - Schengen,,,,LUXEMBOURG, Deceased about 1757, aged about 46 years old Spouses and children Married to Anne Marie Josepha SAUR 1722-1767 about 1739 [would be a later wife, since our Viricus b. 1735] with M Hubert KIES 1750-1823 https://gw.geneanet.org/geneabaud?n=kies+kees&oc=&p=peter (geneabaud tree)	Born 25 March 1711 - SCHENGEN, Remich, GD Luxembourg Parents Jean KIES, born about 1680, deceased - SCHENGEN, Remich, GD Luxembourg Married to Catherine X, born about 1680, deceased - SCHENGEN, Remich, GD Luxembourg Spouses, children and grandchildren Married to Anne Marie SAUR about 1739, born 17 October 1722 - SCHENGEN, Remich, GD Luxembourg [would be a later wife, since our Viricus b. 1735] with M Jean KIES 1744 , etc. https://gw.geneanet.org/jcboulay?n=kies&oc=&p=pierre (jcboulay tree)

Wuerttemberg

7th-great-grandparents:

Johann Jacob Kiess (1679-1762) Pleiningen to Schengen, Remich, LUX by 1700, d. 1762 - G2HT-VJ8 in Family Search

• Anna Catharina Breuning (1683-1733)
  • Anna Catharina (1704), Peter (1710)

alt. Jean KIES - wrong line?

• Born about 1680
• Deceased - SCHENGEN, Remich, GD Luxembourg
• Spouses, children , grandchildren and great-grandchildren
• Married to Catherine , born about 1680, deceased - SCHENGEN, Remich, GD Luxembourg with
  • F Anne KIES ca 1700 - SCHENGEN, Remich, GD Luxembourg
  • M Urbain KIES 1706 Married to Madeleine THYNES THINES with
  • M Nicolas KIES 1707
  • M Pierre KIES 1711 Married about 1739 to Anne Marie SAUR...
• https://gw.geneanet.org/jcboulay?lang=en&pz=jean+claude+andre+louis&nz=boulay&p=jean&n=kies&oc=6 (jcboulay tree)

Schengen is the far SE corner of LUX where France, Germany, and LUX meet) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen,_Luxembourg

Remich is a few miles north of Schengen, both on the west bank of the Moselle River - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remich

In 1687 the Remich' town fortifications were demolished by the army of Louis XIV.

8th-great-grandparents:

Hans Jerg Kiess (1664-1727) Sara Elsaesser

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Johan Jakob Kiess (1650-79) GDY2-9TZ b. Plieningen, Stuttgart, Württemberg, German Empire (and died) Spouse: Maria Leupold (?) G2HT-K2X Johan Jakob (1679-1762) G2HT-VJ8 m. Anna Catharina Breuning GCQV-XKG Parents: Hans Kiess & Anna Mreck (see below) Per Family Search

The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) devastated the city of Stuttgart,[49] and it would slowly decline for a period of time from then on.[25] After the catastrophic defeat of the Protestant Heilbronn League by the Habsburgs at Nörlingen in 1634, Duke Eberhard III and his court fled in exile to Strasbourg, abandoning the Duchy to looting by pro-Habsburg forces. The Habsburgs once again had full reign of the city for another four years (c. 1634-38), and in that time Stuttgart had to carry the burden of billeting the pro-Habsburg armies in Swabia. Ferdinand III, King of the Romans, entered the city in 1634 and, two years later in 1636, once again attempted to re-Catholicize Württemberg.[50] The next year, the Bubonic plague struck and devastated the population.[51] The Duke returned in 1638 to a realm somewhat partitioned to Catholic factions in the region, and entirely ravaged by the war. In the Duchy itself, battle, famine, plague and war reduced the Duchy's population of 350,000 in 1618 to 120,000 in 1648 – about 57% of the population of Württemberg.[52] Recovery would be slow for the next several decades, but began nonetheless with the city's first bookstore in 1650 and high school in 1686

9th-great-grandparents:

Georg Kiess - Moehringen, Neckerkreis/Biberach, Wurttemberg, b. 1633 Catharina Hebens There is a Moehringen in Unlingen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlingen which is along the Danube River in the northwest part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biberach_(district) just a few miles from Riedlingen

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Hans Kiess (1594-?) GHP8-4XG Plieningen, Stuttgart, Württemberg, Deutschland; Heiligenpfleger (church finance/custodian), Schuhmacher (shoemaker) Wife: Anna Mreck (1613-?) GHP8-6DT Children: Anna, Margaretha, Catharina, Anna, Michael, Anna, Johann Jacob, Agnes, Barbara, Georgius, Martin Parents: Hanss Jakob Kiess (1567-1622) MRD4-KPH Anna Barbara Fuchs (1571-1636) LBK1-189 Per Family Search

10th-great-grandparents:

Conrad Kiess - Moehringen, Stuttgart, Wurttemberg, b. 1601 Margaretha Wehr One of the parts of Stuttgart is also called Moehringen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart-M%C3%B6hringen (district just to the west of Pleiningen)

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Hanss Jakob Kiess (1567-1622) MRD4-KPH Schulmeister (schoolmaster) Plieningen, Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany Anna Barbara Fuchs (1571-1636) LBK1-189 m. 1590 Hans Kuess, Margretha Kuess, Hans Kiess, Jerg Kiess, Anna Kiess, Kuess, Georg Kuess, Jakob Kuess, Barbara Kuess, Johannes Kuess Parents: Hanss Kiess (1541-91) 9NL8-XPH Barbara Gnapp (1544-?) K6Q3-7DB Per Family Search

11th-great-grandparents:

* Johannes Kies - Pleiningen, Stuttgart, Wurttemberg - m. 1600, d. 1628 - Anna Fischer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plieningen

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Hanss Kiess (1541-91) 9NL8-XPH Schuhmacher (shoemaker) Birth: 1541, Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland Death: 1591, Remmesweiler, Saarland, Deutschland (Sankt Wendel) Barbara Gnapp (1544-?) K6Q3-7DB m. 1566 Hanns Jacob Kiess (1567), Barbara Kiessin, Apollonia Kuess, Balthasar, Joerg, Joseph, Hannss, Barbara, Hannss, Jakob Parents Michel Kiess (1510-?) G3F4-C62 Apollonia Funck (1521-?) G2HY-PTW Per Family Search

12th-great-grandparents:

* Konrad Kiess - Moehringen, Neckerkreis, Wurttemberg, b. 1556 - ? https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Neckarkreis vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Eva Ulmer

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Michel Kiess (1510-?) G3F4-C62 Plieningen, Stuttgart, Württemberg, Deutschland Apollonia Funck (1521-?) G2HY-PTW Hanss (1541), Appolonia Parents: ? ? Per Family Search

In 1525, 2,000 farmers gathered in Unlingen as it became one of the starting points of the German Peasants' War.

Eberhard I, then Count Eberhard V, became the first Duke of Württemberg[d] in 1495,[26] and made Stuttgart the seat of the Duchy of Württemberg in addition to the County thereof. All this would be lost to the Württembergs during the reign of his son, Ulrich. Though Ulrich initially made territorial gains as a result of his decision to fight alongside the Emperor Maximilian I,[39] he was no friend of the powerful Swabian League nor of his own subjects,[39] who launched the Poor Conrad rebellion of 1514.[40][41] Despite this and his rivalry with the Swabian League, his undoing would actually come in the form of his unhappy marriage to Sabina of Bavaria.[42] In 1515, Ulrich killed an imperial knight and lover of Sabina's by the name of Hans von Hutten,[43] obliging her to flee to the court of her brother, William IV, Duke of Bavaria, who successfully had Ulrich placed under Imperial ban twice. When the Emperor died in 1519, Ulrich struck, seizing the Free Imperial City of Reutlingen, prompting the League to intervene. That same year, Ulrich was soundly defeated and he was driven into exile in France and Switzerland following the League's conquest of Württemberg.[39] Württemberg was then sold by the League to Emperor Charles V,[44] who then granted it to his brother, Ferdinand I, thus beginning the 12 year ownership of the county by the Habsburgs (c. 1519-1531).[34] When the peasants Ulrich had crushed before rose once again in the German Peasants' War,[40][41] Stuttgart was occupied by the peasant armies for a few days in the Spring of 1525. Ulrich, with the help of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, seized the chance to restore himself to power (albeit as an Austrian vassal)[39] in the turmoil of the Reformation and War with the Turks and invited Erhard Schnepf to bring the Reformation to Stuttgart. He accepted, was named Court Preacher in Stuttgart, and worked in concert with Ambrosius Blarer until his dismissal following his resistance to the Augsburg Interim by the Duke in 1548.[45] Duke Ulrich himself died two years later, and was succeeded by his son, Christoph. Christoph had grown up in a Württemberg in turmoil, and wished to rebuild its image. To this end, he once again began a construction boom all over the Duchy under the direction of Court Architect Aberlin Tretsch;[46] knowing full well that the time of the Reisekönigtum was over, Christoph and Tretsch rebuilt and remodeled the Old Castle into a Renaissance palace,[38] and from 1542 to 1544, what is today the Schillerplatz was built as a town square.[26] Duke Christoph also responded to the increasing made for drinking water by embarking upon a massive hydraulic engineering project in the form of a 2,810 feet (860 m) tunnel to Pffaf Lake, the Glems, and the Nesenbach from 1566 to 1575. In 1575, Georg Beer was also appointed Court Architect, and he built the Lusthaus. But it was architect Heinrich Schickhardt who would carry Tretsch's torch further; Schickhardt constructed the Stammheim Castle in the suburb of Stammheim, rebuilt the Fruchtkasten in the today's Schillerplatz,[47] and expanded the Prinzebau.[48]

13th-great-grandfather:

• Hans Kiess B: c. 1530 Moehringen (?), Riedlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, D: 1592 -
  • Riedlingen village on the Danube River - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riedlingen village on the Danube River
• alt. Johann "Hans" Kiess
  • Born in 1519 - Moehringen, Neckarkreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
  • Deceased 16 June 1592 - Moehringen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, aged 73 years old
  • Married in 1555, Möhringen, Neckarkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, to Margaretha NEUFFER 1532-1589 with
    • M Veit Kiess 1560-1611
    • M Georgig Keiss
    • M Hans der Jungere Kiess 1535-1590
    • M Konrad Kiess 1556-1606
  • https://gw.geneanet.org/trebor1352?lang=en&pz=michael+neil&nz=mcnulty&p=johann+hans&n=kiess

Geography

Wurttemberg-Luxembourg Map - https://goo.gl/maps/Ahn9BifHAaFfXThG6

• Riedlingen/Unlingen to Pleiningen/Moehringen/Stuttgart = 1 1/2 hr drive, ~85 km, 52 mi
• Pleiningen/Moehringen/Stuttgart to Remich/Schengen, LUX = 3 1/4 hr drive, ~285 km, 177 mi
• Remich/Schengen to Kehlen, LUX = 35 min drive, ~50 km, 30 mi

Germany

• Baden-Wurttemberg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg (modern state)
• Wurttemberg (Swabia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrttemberg (old territory, includes Biberach and Stuttgart)
• Duchy of Wurttemberg (1485-~1806) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg
• Map of Roman Limes - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Limes2.png
  • Riedlingen area would be between Mengen and Emerkingen on the Roman line along the Danube east of Tutlingen
  • Pleiningen/Moehringen/Stuttgart is around Esslingen/Grinario (Koengen) - north of Tutlingen, east of Baded-Baden, east-southeast of Pforszeim along the Neckar River

Rivers

• Moselle River goes by Schengen and Remich Luxembourg, a "left-bank" tributary of the Rhine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moselle
• Neckar River goes through Stuttgart, a "right-bank" tributary of the Rhine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neckar
• Danube River passes Riedlingen and Unlingen, Biberach - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube