Ferdinand IV of Limburg Stirum
Ferdinand IV August Carl Joseph Johannes Nepomuk Thaddeus, count of Limburg Styrum Zu Illereichen,( 24 September 1785- 5 December 1800) was sovereign lord of the immediate lordship of Gemen.
He was born in 1785, the son of Johann of Limburg Stirum and his wife Maria Walpurga vom Stain Zu Rechtenstein.
At the age of 13, when his grandfather Karl Josef of Limburg Stirum died, he inherited the immediate lordship of Gemen along with the associated seat on the Bench of Counts of Westphalia in the Imperial Diet.
He also inherited the fortress of Simontornya in Hungary.
With his death at the age of 15, the Gemen- branch of the House of Limburg Stirum became extinct.
Historians assume that the Styrum- branch of the House of Limburg Stirum took over his seat in the Imperial Diet.
Gemen went to Reichsfreiherr Aloys von Boineburg- Bömelberg Zu Erolsheim.
It was mediatized in 1806 to the princes of Salm- Kyrburg.
Dietrich II of Isenberg-Limburg
Dietrich II of Isenberg-Limburg (died c. 1303) was a German aristocrat.
He was count of Isenberg and Limburg, and the son of Johann of Isenberg-Limburg, also count of Limburg.
He married Bertrada von Goetterswick and they had four children:
Johann of Limburg
Johann of Limburg, count of Limburg, gt von Stirum (died before 1364), son of Dietrich II of Isenberg-Limburg.
He married (1st)
Uda von Ravensberg and (2nd)
Margareta von Ahaus, and had four children:
Philipp Wilhelm of Limburg Stirum
Philipp Wilhelm of Limburg Stirum( 1695 – 1758), count of Limburg Stirum, was the second son of Moritz Hermann of Limburg.
He married NN, countess von Hoensbroech and they had five children:
Wilhelm I of Limburg
Wilhelm I of Limburg, count of Limburg( fl. 1422–1498), son of Eberhard of Limburg.
He married Agnes von Limburg and they had issue:
Dietrich III of Limburg-Styrum
Dietrich III of Limburg, count of Limburg zu Stirum( fl. 1347 – 1391), son of Johann of Limburg.
He married ca.
1353 Johanna von Reifferscheid and they had issue:
Eberhard of Limburg
Eberhard of Limburg, count of Limburg( died before 1426), son of Dietrich III of Limburg, count of Limburg.
He married Ponzetta von Saffenberg and they had issue:
Karl Josef of Limburg Stirum
Karl Josef Maximilian of Limburg Stirum, count of Limburg Styrum, sovereign lord zu Gemen, was the son of Alois of Limburg Stirum.
He inherited the immediate lordship of Gemen from his uncle Ferdinand I of Limburg Stirum in 1791 and remained until his death in 1798.
Alois having survived his three sons, Gemen passed to his grandson Ferdinand IV of Limburg Stirum.
He married Maria Anna Vogel von Wassenhofen and they had five children:
Henry of Limburg-Broich
Henry of Limburg- Broich(?- 1446) was the Count of Limburg- Broich from 1439- 1446.
Henry was a son of Count Theodoric IV of Limburg- Styrum.
When Count William I of Limburg- Styrum died in 1439, the County was partitioned with Henry receiving the Lordship of Broich.
Henry died in 1449 and was succeeded by William.
Adolf of Limburg
Adolf of Limburg, count of Limburg( died 1506), son of Wilhelm I of Limburg, count of Limburg.
He married in 1487 Elisabeth von Reichenstein( d. 1529) and they had issue:

Question: Who is the paternal grandfather of Johann Of Limburg?
Answer: Johann of Isenberg-Limburg