Komes, Teunis (1535-after 1607)

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Teunis (Tönis) Komes (Comes, Commerts), owner of the Gatherhof at Rheydt, in 1591 signed the Concept of Cologne as a representative of the Mennonite congregation at München-Gladbach, Rheinland, Germany. He was an ancestor of the Jacob Gottschalk who immigrated to Pennsylvania and was a preacher in the church in Germantown. The family name of Kernes, spelled in different ways: Kommes, Komms, Kohmsen, was also found in West Prussia before 1700. They may have been related to the Rhineland branch of this family.

Bibliography

Niepoth, W.  "Jakob Gottschalk and His Ancestry." Mennonite Quarterly Review 23 (January, 1949): 35-47.

Reimer, Gustav E. Die Familiennamen der westpreussischen Mennoniten. Weierhof: Mennonitische Geschichtsverein, 1940: 112.

Risler, Walter. "Das München-Gladbacher Mennonitenverzeichnis von 1654." Beitrage zur Geschichte rheinischer Mennoniten. (Weierhof, 1939): 94-130, especially 109.


Author(s) Nanne van der Zijpp
Date Published 1957

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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Komes, Teunis (1535-after 1607)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Komes,_Teunis_(1535-after_1607)&oldid=143554.

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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, pp. 217-218. All rights reserved.


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