Anna van Ewsum

Anna van Ewsum (1640 - 6 November 1714) was a rich Dutch noblewoman.

Biography Anna van Ewsum was born in 1640 as the only child of Willem van Ewsum (1601 or 1608–1643) and Margaretha Beata von Freitag zu Gödens. Her mother was a descendant of a wealthy German family from the County of East Frisia. Her father was Lord of Nienoord, Vredewold and Noordwijk: upon his death in 1643, Anna van Ewsum became the Lady of the same.

In 1645, her mother remarried to Rudolf Wilhelm zu Innhausen und Knyphausen (1620-1666), a diplomat of the States General of the Netherlands with whom she had two children: Haro Caspar and Maria Elisabeth.

In 1657, Anna van Ewsum married Carl Hieronymus von Inn- und Knyphausen (1632-1664), the brother of her stepfather. He changed his name to the Dutch equivalent of his German name, Carel Hieronymus van Inn- en Kniphuisen. When he died, Anna ordered a sepulchral monument for her husband and herself from the sculptor Rombout Verhulst, to be placed in the local church of Midwolde.