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ALLIED ANCESTRY

OF THE

VAN CULEMBORG FAMILY

OF

CULEMBORG, HOLLAND

BEING THE ANCESTRY OF

SOPHIA VAN CULEMBORG

WIFE OF I,',

JOHAN DE CARPENTIER

PARENTS OF

MARIA DE CARPENTIER

WIFE OF

JEAN PAUL JAQUET

VICE-DIRECTOR AND CHIEF MAGISTRATE

OF THE

COLONIES ON THE SOUTH RIVER

OF

NEW NETHERLAND

1655-1657

BY

EDWIN JAQUETT SELLERS

PHILADELPHIA
1915

EDITION LIMITED TO
ONE HUNDRED COPIES

Press of

Allen, Lane & Scott,

Philadelphia.

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WORKS OF THE AUTHOR

An Account of the Jaudon Family. Philadelphia, 1890.

Genealogy of the Jaquett Family. Philadelphia, 1896.

Genealogy of the Kollock Family of Sussex County,
Delaware, 1657-1897. Philadelphia, 1897.

Captain John Avery, President Judge at the Whorekill
IN Delaware Bay, and his Descendants. Philadelphia,
1898.

Genealogy of Dr. Francis Joseph Pfeiffer and his De-
scendants, 1734-1899. Philadelphia, 1899.

!^ Contributor to the Wayne Family, contained in "Some

>; Colonial Mansions and Those Who Lived in Them, by
Thomas Allen Glenn. Published by Henry T. Coates
& Co. Philadelphia, 1900."

^

Allied Families of Delaware, Stretcher, Fenivick, Davis,
Draper, Kipshaven, Stidham. Philadelphia, 1901.

^' Partial Genealogy of the Sellers and Wampole
Families op Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1903.

,V Genealogy of the Jaquett Family, Revised Edition.
Philadelphia, 1907.

r\

Genealogy of the de Carpentier Family of Holland.
'^ Philadelphia, 1909.

ABBREVIATIONS

Anderson : Royal Genealogies, by James Anderson, D.D.
London, 1736.

Betham : Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of the World,
by Rev. William Betham. London, 1795.

Illustra Batavia, name of work published by Simon van
Leeuwen. The Hague, 1685.

L'Art : L'Art de verifier les dates. Paris, 1818.

Otidheusden: History of Culemborg, by A. W. K. Voet von
Oudheusden. Utrecht, 1753.

Rietstap: Rietstap's Armorial Register.

Slichtenhorst : History of Gelderland, by Arend van Slichten-
horst. Arnhem, 1654.

Svueder and Sweder's Origines : Genealogy of the van Culem-
borg Family by Sweder van Culemborg.

ALLIED ANCESTRY

OF THE

VAN CULEMBORG FAMILY

Walter, Count of Teisterbant, in the Dukedom of
Gelders, District of the Betuwe, died either 724 or 742
(Oudheusden, 2; Anderson, Table 347; Betham, Table
562). His daughter and heiress,

Beatrix, Countess of Teisterbant, married about 711,
Theodoric, Stadtholder and Lord of Cleve (Ibid.).
Their daughter and heiress,

Beatrix, Countess of Teisterbant, married Elias,
Aelius, or Elius Grail, Gralius, Graielis, or Grajus, a
great hero, Stadtholder of Nijmegen and first Count of
Cleve, She died 734 or 5 (Ibid.). Their son and heir,

Theodoric, Count of Cleve and Teisterbant, mar-
ried Ida, Countess of Hainault. Teisterbant was held
of the Bishop of Utrecht. Having ruled twenty-five
years, Count Theodoric died 759. Both earldoms went
to their son (Ibid.),

Reinald, Count of Cleve and Teisterbant, who mar-
ried Isabella, Countess of Ardenner-Walde. Having
ruled eleven years Reinald died 769 or 770, leaving his
earldom to his son (Ibid.),

LuDOLPH, Count of Cleve and Teisterbant, who mar-
ried Adelheid, sister of Siegbert, Duke of Aquitain, and
having ruled twenty years, died 790 (Ibid.) Their son
and heir,

John, Count of Cleve and Teisterbant, married Con-
stantia, daughter of Michael I, Emperor of the East,
and Procopia, daughter of the Emperor Nichephorus.

6 VAN CULEMBORG

The latter, a patrician, was proclaimed Emperor and de-
prived the Empress Irene of the government in 802 ; was
slain in battle 811 by Trumus, King of Bulgaria, who
made a cup of his skull; his daughter Procopia married
Michael I, Curoplates, called also Rangabes from being
Master of the Household, who was made Emperor of the
East Roman Empire in opposition to Stauratius. Michael
was a friend of Charlemagne; was overthrown by Leo
Armenius and became a monk in 812, after reigning two
years {Oudheusden, 2; Anderson, 142, 347; Betham,
562; UArt. IV, 290, 292). Count of Cleve and Teister-
bant, after ruling eleven years, died 801 and was suc-
ceeded by their son,

Baldwin or Balderick, who succeeded his brother
Robert as Count of Cleve and Teisterbant. He died
after attending the funeral of Charles the Great at
Aken 830. He married Hildegaert (or Jolenta), daughter
of Lodeuyk, Count of Geneva and Provence. {Slichten-
horst, 469 ; Oudheusden, 2,3). They had

Robert, Count of Teisterbant, to whom the earldom
had been given by his father, that of Cleve going to
an elder brother. Count Robert married Cunigunda,
Countess of Hoey or Hoya {Oudheusden, 3 ; Anderson,
347 ; Betham, 562), and was succeeded by their eldest son,

LoDEWijK, Count of Teisterbant and Hoey, who mar-
ried Adele, daughter of Berenger, Count of Lomme and
Namur (ped. 40) {Oudheusden, 3). Their third son,

Baldwin H, Count of Teisterbant and Hoey, mar-
ried the daughter of the Count de Vermandois {Oud-
heusden, 3) and was succeeded by their only daughter,

(Christian name unknown), Countess of Teisterbant
and Hoey, who married her kinsman Walger, son of
Gerolf, Count of Friesland (ped. 4), and Magteld,
sister of Hugano, Count of Zanten. Walger became
Count of Teisterbant by virtue of his marriage; resided
at Thiel, where he was slain in battle with the Normans
{Oudheusden, 2-4) ; and was succeeded by their son

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Theodoric, Count of Teisterbant* and Hoey, who
married the daughter of Arnold, twelfth Count of Cleve
(ped. 2); was slain in battle with the Normans in 880
with his wife; was succeeded by their son Henry in the
earldom, the manors of Bosichem, Zeelen, etc., passing
to their younger son Gerbrand (Oudheusden, 4).

Gerbrand, first Lord van Bosichem, married the
daughter of Lord van Pont,t Governor of Gelders;
began the restoration of the Church of Bosichem, which
had been destroyed by the Normans, and laid the foun-
dation of the Castle at Bosichem (Slichtenhorst) ; adopted
the coat of arms of Bosichem, three diagonal red bars on
a gold field with the arms of Teisterbant (or Cleve)
placed in right canton; died 925, having ruled many
years, and was buried with his wife in St. Walburg's
Church {Oudheusden, 8). Their only son,

Dirk, or Diderick, succeeded as the second Lord
van Bosichem; married the daughter of Lord van
Spyk, X by whom he had three sons, Willem (his successor),
Jan, Lord van der Weyde, and Claes, Lord van Caets or
Caetshage; rebuilt the Church at Bosichem and com-

* Oudheusden gives illustrations of the arms described
throughout which agree with Rietstap's descriptions, except
where noted. No description of the Teisterbant arms has
been found. The illustration by Oudheusden may be de-
scribed as d'azur a une escarhoucle fleurdelissee d'or brochant sur
le tout et un escusson d' argent en abime, which resembles the
arms of Cleve.

Rietstap: Cleves {ancien dues de). De gueules a un escusson
d' argent en abime, et une escarboucle fleurdelissee d'or, brochant
sur le tout; ou de gueules a une escarboucle d'or, et un escusson
d'argent en abime, brochant sur le tout. Cimier, une tete et col
de boeuf de gueules, accornee d'argent, couronne d'or, la cercle de
la couronne eschiquete d'argent et de gueules.

fAn illustration of the van Pont arms may be found in
Slichtenhorst, 43, three red roses on a silver shield, two in the
upper part and the other in the lower.

X No description of the arms is given by Rietstap but they
may be described as, on a silver shield a Jesse with jour silver
blocks or squares thereon, the space between the second and third
slightly wider than the other spaces.

8 VAN CULEMBORG

pleted the Castle or stronghold, of which his father laid
the foundation, and which has disappeared for a long
time; died 954, having ruled over Bosichem about
twenty-nine years, and was buried with his wife in the
Church of Bosichem {Oudheusden, 8, 9).

WiLLEM, third Lord van Bosichem, married the
daughter of Count of Reifferscheid* of Salm who pos-
sessed Reifferscheid in the Province of Luxembourg, by
whom he had a son Jan ; fell with Arnout, Count of Hol-
land, in a battle near Winkel against the Frisians which,
according to Beka, happened 993, the day after St. Lam-
bert's Day, and was buried with his wife at Bosichem
(Ibid.).

Jan, fourth Lord van Bosichem, married the daugh-
ter of Lord van Heusdenf (ped. 81) by whom he had a
son Roelof (who follows); died 1030, having ruled thirty-
seven years, and was buried with his wife in the Church
of Bosichem (Oudheusden, g, 10).

Roelof, called The Great, was fifth Lord van Bo-
sichem; called The Great, on account of his stature and
strength; his statue on the Castle at Culemborg was
destroyed by the French in 1673; married the daughter
of Count van der Lippe| by whom he had a son Henry.
Lord Roelof was well versed in the use of arms, cautious

*Rietstap: van Reifferscheid, Westphalie. D'argent a un
ecusson de gueules en abime, accompagne en chef d'un lambel de
cinq pendants d'azur. Cimier, deux orielles d'ane, de gueules
et d'argent. (The illustration by Oudheusden omits the lambel
and cimier.)

fRietstap: van Heusden, Brabant. D'or a une roue de
gueules. Casque courrone. Cimier, la roue. {Oudheusden gives'
the color of the field as or.)

X Rietstap : van der Lippe (Comtes van der Lippe) , Prusse,
Wurtemburg, Saxony. Ecartele: aux i et 4 d'argent a une rose
de gueules, barbie et boutonne d'or (Lippe); aux 2 et j de gueules
a un birondelle, au naturel soutenue d'une etoile (5) d'or (Schwal-
enberg). Casque courrone. Cimier, la rose, entre un vol
d'argent. Lambrequins, d'argent et de gueules. Tenants, deux
anges, tenant des palmes.

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and religious, for which reasons he was highly esteemed
by the Emperor Henry IV, who appointed him General-
in-Chief in the war against the Saxons. At Cologne
in 107 1 the Emperor was present at the baptism of his
(the General's) son and named him Henrik. Though
very old, Lord Roelof went to Aix-la-Chappelle to attend
the coronation of the Emperor's son as the Roman King
Henry V, but died of fever on his way at Aken 1099,
having ruled at Bosichem sixty-nine years. His body was
interred with much ceremony at Aken by order of the
Emperor in the Church of Our Lady {Ibid.).

Henrik, son of Roelof, was sixth Lord van Bosichem;
married the daughter of Simon, first Lord van Teylingen,*
who was descended from the Counts of Holland (ped. 4),
by whom he had a son Roelof (who follows) ; with many
noble and illustrious men he went to the rescue of the
Emperor Henry IV, his godfather, from the imprison-
ment by his son and fell in battle near Liege in 1 105. His
wife died at the Castle of Bosichem 11 20 and was buried
in the Church at that place (Ibid., 11).

Roelof, seventh and last Lord van Bosichem, mar-
ried Aleid, daughter of Gerard, Lord van Heinsbergf
(ped. 8), by whom he had a daughter Ida, who in her
fifteenth year, was given in marriage to Alard, Lord van
Bueren, with promise of the manor of Bosichem as
dowry. Later he had a son Huibert. After Lord
Roelof had ruled over Bosichem thirty-nine years he
built Culemborg in 1144 for his son Huibert and gave
him this town with the dependent and surrounding
country as an inheritance after his death and thus
Bosichem was separated from Culemborg and became
the possession of the Lords van Bueren, afterwards
Counts, as a separate manor. While more than one hun-

*Rietstap: van Teylingen, Hollande. D'or au lion de
gueules, arme et lampasse d'azur; au lambel d'argent, brochant
sur le corps du lion.

t Rietstap : van Heinsberg, Limbourg. De gueules au lion
d'argent. Cimier, le lion, issuant entre un vol de gueules.

10 VAN CULEMBORG

dred years before the building of Culemborg mention is
made in the Register of Fiefs of Utrecht regarding Culem-
borg, yet some claim that the city is older and that a
castle stood there before the building of Culemborg, and
that Lord Roelof merely retained the name, Vossius
says that Emperor Henrik, with a mighty army, going to
besiege Holland in 1123, besieged Schulenberg which, he
says, is now called Culemborg. While Lord Roelof was
Lord of Bosichem the principal Church of that place
was bestowed upon the Collegiate Church of St. John
at Utrecht in 1131 under rule of Andreas van Cuik and
Emperor Lotharius, according to Heda, 158. Roelof,
first Lord van Culemborg, ruled about thirty years at
the Castle at Bueren and died 11 74, being buried with
his wife at Bosichem {Ibid., 11, 12).

HuiBERT I, second Lord van Culemborg, was known
as "Hubrecht van Bosichem, Lord van Culemborg,
Knight." He married Johanna, daughter of Lord
Zweer van Zuilen,* by whom he had two sons, Jan and
Zweer, the former succeeding his father in rule of Culem-
borg and the latter receiving the manor of Vyanen and
marrying the daughter of Lord van der Leede and be-
coming first Lord of that district. Lord Zweer built a
castle about 12 13 and his descendants gave up the sur-
name of Culemborg and adopted that of Vyanen. From
Zweer originated the Lords van Vyanen, who bore three
black pillars on a silver field, f and possessed same until
141 8, when Henrik van Vyanen died and the manors
of Vyanen and Ameide passed to the noble family of
Brederode, when Jenne van Vyanen, daughter and
heiress of Lord Henrik van Vyanen and Marguerta van

*Rietstap: van Zuylen d'Anholt. Pays d' Utrecht. (Chief
branche de la maison de Zuylen, et vers 1310.) De gueules a
trois colonnes d'argent. Cimier, un colonne d'argent, ou cette
colonne courrone. Cri, Zuylen! Zuylen! {The colors differ
with Oudheusden' s illustration.)

fRietstap: van Vianen. Paysd' Utrecht, Hollande. D'ar-
gent a trois colonnes de sable. Casque courrone. Cimier, un
tete et col d'ane d'azur, les orielles d'or.

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Herlaer, Lady of Ameide, married Walraven van Brede-
rode, who died at Gorinchem, 141 7. Jenne, his wife,
died in childbirth a half year later in 141 8. Thus
Reinout van Brederode became Lord van Vyanen and
Ameide. Lord Huibert van Culemborg died 1205, hav-
ing ruled at Culemborg about thirty-one years, and was
buried with his wife at Bosichem with his ancestors
(Ibid., 12, 13).

JoHAN I, third Lord van Culemborg, married the
daughter of Lord van Ghistelle* of Flanders, by whom he
had two sons, the first named Huibert and who suc-
ceeded his father in rule of Culemborg, the other named
Zweer, who had van Bosichem as a surname. About
this time Lord Steven van Bosichem, who is supposed
to have been a brother of the other two, and who was
greatly esteemed by Bishop Otto Steven, had a dis-
pute with the Cathedral Magistrate regarding tithes and
values in the vicinity of the Yssel and Lech, which he
renounced in 1225. Lord Johan established Barbara
Church for the use of the citizens and inhabitants,
which had the Chapel of Our Blessed Lady, used as
burial place for the Lords and Ladies van Culemborg,
and Lord Johan and many of his successors were buried
there. This church remained subordinate to the church
at Bosichem as the mother church until 13 10 when, with
Papal and Episcopal consent, it separated from that
church. Though Lord Johan and certain of his suc-
cessors retained the name van Bosichem, for he was
called "Jan van Bosichem, Lord van Culemborg, Knight,"
he, nevertheless, gave up the use of his father's coat-
of-arms, the three red bars diagonally on a golden field,
with Teisterbant in right canton, because his grand-
father Roelof had given the manor of Bosichem as a

*Rietstap: de Ghistelle. Flandre. {Princes 16 aout 1760,
M. et.) De gueules au chevron d'hermine. Cimier, une tete et
col de bouc d'argenf, accornee d'or, collete de sable, entre un vol
d'herminie. Lambrequins, d'argent et de gueules. Cri:
Ghistelles !

12 VAN CULEMBORG

marriage portion with his daughter to Lord van Bueren,
and adopted the arms of his mother, Johanna van Zuilen,
although changing the colors to three red pillars on a
field of gold*, which remained the arms of the van Culem-
borg family, and which arms were placed in the right can-
ton of the shield of Bosichem, but this arrangement was
changed by his successors who omitted the Bosichem arms
and retained merely the three red columns on a golden
field. When Roelof, Castellan of Coevorden, besieged
Groningen in 1 2 2 5 , Otto van der Lippe, Bishop of Uterecht,
marched to that place with his retainers, the Counts of
Gelders and Cleve, Walraven van Meurs, Willem van
Lynden, Jan, Lord van Arkel, Jan, Lord van Bueren,
and other nobles, among whom was Jan, Lord van
Culemborg. The siege being raised the Castellan went
to Coevorden, where the army of the Bishop, carelessly
going on the morass, the majority sank, owing to their
heavy armor and were killed, the Bishop being among
the number. Lords van Arkel, van Lynden and many
knights, about four hundred, were taken prisoners or
killed, as Count of Gelders and Lord van Amstel. The
Bishop was abused and killed and his body was buried
in the Cathedral at Utrecht. Lord Johan was not
captured. According to Heda, this occurred in 1226.
Lord Johan died 1240, having ruled over Culemborg
thirty-five years and, according to Slichtenhorst, he was
the first of the Lords van Culemborg to be buried in the
Chapel of Our Lady at Culemborg (Oudheusden, 13-15).

HuiBERT II, fourth Lord van Culemborg, married
the daughter of Henrik, Lord van Voornef and Bur-
grave of Zeeland (ped. 85), by whom he had one son,
also named Huibert (who follows). Zweer van Culem-

* In Gudheusden's illustration of the van Zuilen arms the
field is given as argent, but no such description has been found,
or, apparently, being correct.

t Rietstap : van Voorne, burgraves de Zelande, Zelande. De
gueules au leopard lionne d'or, arme et lampasse d'azur. Cimier,
le leopard, issuant d'une cuve.

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borg says in his Origines that the wife's name was Mar-
gerita. Lord Huibert built a castle in the western part
of the city which was subsequently razed and another
was built on the eastern side of the city, the white tower
of which still remains. In 125 1 a dispute occurred be-
tween four knights and barons, van Pavyen and Parys
on one side and Redichem and Caets and Lanksmeere
on the other side. The first two assailed the manors of
the other two and burned the houses and villages of
Redichem and Lanksmeere. The result may be obtained
from the following extract of a document which be-
longed to Huibert van Culemborg, Lord van Essche-
stein :

In 1 25 1 dispute arose between the aforesaid. These
barons had their manors in the Earldom of Teisterband;
that of Redichem adjoined the manor of Bosichem;
the aforesaid Lords burned and destroyed the baronies
of Redichem and Lanxmeer. Lord van Redichem, in
revenge, pierced the Leek dyke and drowned Lords
Parys and Paveyen and their retainers. No one re-
ceived more damage from this than Lord Huibert van
Culemborg, who took all four prisoners for a long time.
Lord Huibert married the daughter of Lord van Voorne.
By intervention of the Bishop of Utrecht, named Lord
Henrick van Vyanen, and the said Lord van Voorne, it
was decided that the four Lords should restore Lord
Huibert van Culemborg's town to its former state,
the estimate of which was so high that Lords Paveyen
and Parys were obliged to convey their manors to Lord
van Culemborg and went to reside in Zeeland, where
Paveyen had purchased the manor of Stryen and Lord
van Parys the manor of Zuydont, from which the Zuydont
family descended. Lord Wierick van Redichem con-
veyed his manor to Lord van Culemborg and died at
Culemborg and was buried in the church of St. Barbara,
where the Lords van Esschestein now lie. Lord van
Caets retained his manor for his descendants.

In 1520 the lordship of Caets was added to Culemborg
by purchase by Lord Antonis van Lalaing. Lord

14 VAN CULEMBORG

Huibert van Culemborg ruled over Culemborg thirty-
two years and died 1272 and was buried with his wife
at St. Barbara's Church in the Chapel of Our Lady in
his paternal vault (Ibid., pp. 15-18).

Huibert III, fifth Lord van Culemborg, was Schenker
(Presenter or Cup Bearer) to the Bishops of Utrecht,
which honor he received from Count van Cuyk and
which remained in his successors a long time. His wife
was Geertruid, daughter of Jan, ninth Lord van Arkel*
(ped. 80), by whom he had one son Jan (who follows)
and two daughters, the elder of whom married Count
of Gooz and the younger married Gysbrecht van Caets,
Knight. In 1281 Lord Huibert sold his castle to Reinald,
Count of Gelders, for one hundred pounds, conditioned
that it should be held in fee according to the laws of
Zutphen, which was brought about according to Slich-
tenhorst, in the following manner:

Hubrecht, with the Lords van Amstel and Woerden,
raised an insurrection against the Bishop Henrick van
Vyanen and King Willem and his son Floris. Upon
advice of his uncle, Zweer van Bosichem, and brother,
Dirk Splinter, together with the Council of his City of
Culemborg, to obtain protection he gave up his inde-
pendence and sold his castle, up to that time a free
baronial possession, for £100 to Count Reynald of Geld-
ers and his heirs.

It is true that Lord Huibert joined his kinsmen against
the Count of Holland and Bishop of Utrecht but Slich-
tenhorst is mistaken in his claim that he made insur-
rection against King Willem and Hendrik van Vyanen,
as this does not agree with the chronology, as the Count
and Bishop had died long before. In 1284 Jan, Lord
van Arkel, gave a free waterway, now called the Huibert,
to Everdingen and Zyderveld (not yet belonging to

*Rietstap: van Arkel. Hollande. D' argent d, deux fasces
bretesse et contre-bretesse de gueules. Casque courrone. Cimier,
un cygne issuant d'argent, becque de gueules, le vol leve, chaque
aile charge des fasces de r ecus son.

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Culemborg). In 1296 Lord Hubrecht sealed a decree on
behalf of the citizens of Montfoord against Henrik de
Rover, together with Lord Gysbrecht van Schalkwyk,
Lord Gysbrecht van Goye, Lord Hubrecht van Vyanen
and others. Lord Huibert van Culemborg died 1296,
having ruled twenty-four years, and was buried with
his parents at Culemborg. His wife died 13 12 {Ibid.,
18-20).

Jan II, sixth Lord van Culemborg, married first
Margariet, only daughter and heiress of Gerrit, Lord
van Maurik,* by whom he had a son Huibert, who suc-
ceeded his father as Lord van Culemborg. By this
marriage the manors of Maurik, Ech and other estates
came to Culemborg although the high jurisdiction went
to Gelderland. In 1305 Jan, Lord van Arkel, granted
permission to Gysbrecht uten Goye, Johan van Bosichem
and Gysbrecht van Caets, for a large sum, to have a
water-course pass through his manor. A document con-
cerning the matter was sealed by Jan van Arkel, Lord
Amout van Arkel, uncle, Herbaern van Arkel, brother,
Jan uten Goye and Otto van Heukelhem, nephew of Lord
Jan. In 1308 Reinout, son of the Count of Gelders,
promised in an open letter to assist Lord Jan against all
who should wrong him. Lord Jan built the Barbara
Church and it was raised to a parish church in 13 10,
separating it from the mother church at Bosichem, with
sanction of the Bishop of Utrecht, etc. After the death
of his wife. Lord Jan married Petronella, daughter of
Zweer, Lord van Abkoude, by whom he had one son
Henrik, according to Slichtenhorst (Zweer van Culem-
borg says Jan). This Henrik or Jan, because his brother
Huibert hated him, was by agreement of friends, accord-
ing to Zweer van Culemborg, induced to enter the
Bishopric of Utrecht and built the houses of Schonauwen
and Woudenberg or, as others say, his father did so for

*Rietstap: van Maurik. Pays de Gueldre. D'or a une
forces de gtieules, posee en bande, les bouts en haut. Cimier,
deux forces de gueules, accostees les bouts en bas.

16 VAN CULEMBORG

him. This was the first Lord van Schonauwen, and he
bore the coat-of-arms of Bosichem, three diagonal bars
on a gold shield with the Culemborg arms placed in right
canton, three red pillars on a gold field. In the genea-
logical register, under the description of the Bishopric
of Utrecht, it says:

"Lord Johan van Culemburg, Lord van Schonauwer
and Ott his son were Knights about the year 1374."

Probably this Johan van Culemburg was a son's son
of Johan, Lord van Culemborg. In 13 18 Lord Johan
gave the citizens of Culemborg their first city privilege
(law), which is mentioned in the Origines by Sweder
van Culemborg and the same was sealed by Hubrecht
his son, Sweder van Vyanen, Gisbrecht van Caets,
Johan van Lynden and Gerard van Rossem his kins-
men. Lord Johan died 1322 and was buried with his
ancestors {Ibid., 20-23).

Hubrecht IV, seventh Lord van Culemborg, married
Jonkvrouw Jutte or Judith, daughter of Peter, Lord van
der Lekke* (ped. 86), which marriage brought the im-
portant barony of Weerd and Weerdenbroek to Culem-
borg, which was possessed by successive Lords for about
four hundred years, until Ernst Frederick, Duke of
Saxony, Hilberhauzen, Count of Culemborg, sold this
barony to the Bishop of Munster with the agreement
that no charge should he made in reference to the ad-
vance of the Reformed Church. Sweder van Culem-
borg says that Weerd went to Culemborg in the fol-
lowing manner:

"Lord Peter van der Lekke had a brother (a son)
named Lord Henrik van der Lekke, who owned the
Weerde and, as he had no children, Weerde was in-
herited by his sister and Lord van Culemborg."

Henrik van der Lekke died 134 1. Jutte van der
Lecke, died 1352, five years after her husband, Hubrecht

* Rietstap : van der Leek, Hollande. D' argent au lion de
sable, arme at lampasse de gueules, courrone d'or. Casque cour-
rone. Ciniier, le lion, issuant, entre un vol d'argent.

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van Culemborg. By Judith van der Lecke Lord
Hubrecht had three sons and six daughters; the sons
were Johan, Gerrit and Peter; Johan succeeded his
father in the Lordship, and Gerrit, after death of Peter,
married the daughter and heiress of Lord van Box-
meer, from whom the Lords van Boxmeer descend.
The eldest daughter Jolente married Lord Henrik van
Vyanen; the second daughter, Maria, married Lord
Gerris van VHet; third daughter, Judith, married Lord
Wolter van Mynden van Amstel, Knight ; fourth daugh-
ter, Mechteld, married Zweer, Lord van Montfoort;
fifth daughter, Henrika, married Lord van Weerden-
burg; and the sixth daughter remained single. Lord
van Huibert became Lord van Schalkwyk in the fol-
lowing manner:

Berend van Schalkwyk promised in 13 12 that he
would not sell his house and estate Schalkwyk to any-
one but Lord Gysbert uten Goye, Burgrave, or Gysbert
his son, for friendship's sake, and the agreement was
sealed by Johan van Bosichem. In 13 16 Berend sold
the property to Gysbert uten Goye. In 13 17 Jan van
Amstel gave Johan van Bosichem all land that he pos-
sessed up to Schalkwyk, which Lord Arent van Schalk-
wyk held of him in fee. In the same year Barend van
Schalkwyk sold Johan van Bosichem the right of pres-
entation to the Church at Schalkwyk. In 13 19 Berend
van Schalkwyk transferred to Jan van Bosichem his
property up to Schalkwyk with right of presentation to
the church. In 13 21 Johan van Culemborg became
possessed of certain property of Arnout van Schalk-
wyk and four acres on which the house stood. In the
same year Johan van Bosichem made known that he had
purchased half of Schalkwyk from Lord Steven van
Zuilen, etc. Finally, it is stated in a letter that the
Bishop of Utrecht enfeoffed Lord Huibert with half
of the gericht of Schalkwyk, which came from Johan van
Zuilen.

Since then Schalkwyk remained in possession of
Culemborg for three hundred years, until 1644, when it

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became separated. Count Willem van Henegouwen and
Holland sold to Willem van Durvenvoorde, Lord van
Oosterhout, and Hubrecht Schenk the manors of Gas-
paerden, Everdingen, Golberdingen, Tulle, Twael, Hons-
wyk and Jaersveld, with fisheries, etc., to be held by-
said Lords and their heirs in fee of the Counts and
Countesses of Holland. In the feudal agreement of 1333
relative thereto it was agreed that if the purchasers or
their successors wished to divide these manors the
feudal agreement would be withdrawn and a separate
agreement given to each for such part as might be re-
ceived. Later dispute arose between Lord Huibert and
Otto, Lord van Asperen and Hagestein, which was
settled largely by the intervention of Johan, Lord van
Arkel, and each received his portion in accordance with
the agreement of 1338. Culemborg retained Ever-
dingen, Golberdingen and Honswyk and Lord Huibert
was enfeoffed in his portion by the Count of Hene-
gouwen and Holland and after his death, the latter's, it
was given in fee in 1344. In 1332 Zyderveld came into
possession of Culemborg by transfer by Huibert van
Everdingen. In the same year Lord Hubrecht pur-
chased the Gericht Antena, as appears by a deed of
transfer given by Alard van de Wael in 1332. In 1334
Lord Hubrecht Schenk van Culemborg, Knight, pur-
chased of Akooy a rod along the whole length of his
canal, so far as it went through the manor of Akooy,
which canal Hubert's father, Lord Johan van Culem-
borg, obtained by purchase in 1305 from Lord van Arkel,
as appears by a justice's letter of 1334- Lord Huibert
was a man of great authority and wealth; he advanced
to Reinald (then still Count of Gelders and Zutphen)
two thousand pounds on account of a letter of credit
sealed by Reinald and sureties in 1336. In the same
year Lord Huibert was given the house Ter Horst as
security, which had been pledged to Reinald by the
Bishop of Utrecht, and the sum pledged was paid Lord
Hubrecht in 1342 by Bishop Jan van Arkel with £900
and the castle again became the property of the Bish-

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opric. In 1341 the Duke of Gelders made the following
request of Lord Huibert:

"We, Reinald, Duke of Gelders, beg of you Lord
Hubrecht Schenk, Heer van Culemborg, that you will
become our security on account of Wolters van Lock-
horst for £1900 and £20."

This pledge was made.

In the same year Jan van Culemborg, Knight, Lord
of Woudenberg, sold to Lord Huibert van Culemborg,
his half brother, all his right in Culemborg for £4760,
according to an open deed sealed by him in 134 1, in
which Lord Jan agreed that his son by his first wife
Sybelia would appear before Lord Hubrecht or his heirs
when he became of age and make assignment of the
aforesaid property. In 1346, on St. Cecelia's Day,
Bishop Jan fought with Lord Hubrecht van Culemborg,
Lord Rebrecht van Arkel and Lord Jacob van Wyevelt
at Utrecht against the Gunterlingen, whom they con-
quered and drove from the city to the number of six
hundred. Lord Hubrecht finally fell in battle against
the Walloons, who fought against the Bishop, which did
not occur in 1344 in the vicinity of Helmond, where
many thousands fell, but in 1347 on St. Praxedis' Day
in the vicinity of Hasselt. Rebrecht van Arkel, Bishop
Jan's brother, also fell here. In this battle those of
Liege met with defeat, and, according to chronicles,
32,000 men of Liege fell {Oudheusden, 25-30).

JoHAN III, eighth Lord van Culemborg, added to the
coat-of-arms of Culemborg those of van der Lecke* a
lion sable on a silver shield, which was quartered with
the other, and continued by his successors. He razed
the castle built by Huibert II in the western side of the
city about 1271 and given in fee to Gelderland in

*Rietstap: van Culemborg. Pays d' Utrecht. Ecartele: aux
I et 4 d'or a trois colonnes de gueules {Culemborg); aux 2 et 3
d'argent au lion de sable, arme et lampasse de gueules {van der
Lecke, ou de la Leek). Cimier, une tete et col d'ane d'azur, les
orielles d'or. (The description omits the words "courrone d'or"
concerning the lion.)

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1 281 (or, some say, it was taken and destroyed by
Aelbert van Beyeren, Count of Holland), and built a

new castle on the east side of
the city, which was sold and
razed under the Gelder rule,
only a round tower remaining.
He also laid the foundation of
a suburb south of the city for
the convenience and residences
of the boatmen and ship car-
penters which is still called the
Havendyk. Moreover, he had
the old city very well protected
against his enemies by building
soHd walls and strong towers, for he was continually
at war with the Bishop, together with the city and
county of Utrecht, partly because he had been one
of the six governors of the Bishopric appointed by
Bishop Jan van Arkel to assume rule during his ab-
sence, and of which rule an accounting was demanded
upon return of the Bishop, which difference was
settled in 1352.

Later another war occurred because Jan van Wou-
denberg (apparently, son of Johan II and, conse-
quently, uncle of Jan III) sold the castle of Wouden-
berg in 1352 to Gysbrecht van Abkoude. The son con-
sidered it intolerable that his father should thus place
the family castle in the hands of strangers, so with help
and advice of Lord Johan van Culemborg, his nephew,
he scaled the castle by night and wished to keep it. The
Bishop Jan van Arkel, upon request of both the buyer
and seller, came on St. Luke's Eve with his army, be-
sieged and stormed the castle seventeen weeks, forced
it to surrender, took all in the castle prisoners and razed
the castle to the ground.

Lord Johan van Culemborg, aided by Gysbrecht van
Vyanen, burned and robbed the Bishopric and waged
war against the Bishop. He was an implacable enemy
of the Bishop, for in 1355 they quarreled again.

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Sweder van Culemborg in his Origines, 608, says:
"Jan, Lord van Culemborg, when, with Lord van
Vyanen, he warred against Jan van Arkel, the Bishop,
because six of his citizens were imprisoned at Utrecht,
sent word to Utrecht 'I must have my citizens back
again; just twice as many of yours will have to die
as are carried off.' This war lasted five years. Later
his citizens were sent back to him and with the money
they brought from Utrecht the square tower was built."

In 1355 the citizens of Culemborg were declared free
of duty by Willem, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Holland,
which was done on account of the faithful deeds of Jan,
Lord van Culemborg. Lord Jan was a faithful friend and
counsellor of Edward of Gelders and sided with him
against Reinald, his brother, when Gelderland was
divided into two parties, namely, Hekersche and Bronk-
horsten, Reinald being head of the first and Edward of
the second. He made a treaty with Edward in 1361.
In 1364 Lord Jan was reconciled with Duke Albert of
Bavaria, Regent of Holland, the latter declaring him
to be his friend and threatening to hold any one respon-
sible with his life who might do him any harm. What
occasioned the difference between Duke Albert and Jan
van Culemborg is not known.

Lord Jan took part in the battle at Baeswyler in
137 1, between Wenceslaus, Duke of Brabant, on one
side, and Willem of Gulik, aided by Edward, Duke
of Gelders, on the other, where the Duke of Brabant
was taken prisoner, met with a terrible defeat and
fell with most of the greatest lords. The conqueror,
Edward, also lost his life. In the same year Lord
Johan united with other knights against a letter
issued by Arent van Hoorn, Bishop of Utrecht, to
the clergy and knights. About this time Bishop Arent
van Hoorn gave Lord Johan the Gerichte of Schalkwyk
with everything belonging to it as possessed by his ances-
tors, from which it appears that all controversy was
ended concerning this land and there was peace with the
Bishop. He signed and sealed a letter with Otto, Lord

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van Arkel, Gysbrecht, Lord van Vyanen and van der
Goye and others concerning the water-course to go
through Syrik to Lech, which occurred April 8, 1377.
He died 1377 and was buried in the Chapel of Our Lady.
He never married {Oudheusden, 30-38).

Gerrit I, second son of Huibert IV, succeeded his
brother Jan HI as ninth Lord van Culemborg; his wife
was Barta, daughter of Jan, Lord van Egmond* (ped.
21), and Guyotte van Ysselstein, by which marriage he
had six sons and three daughters. The eldest son,
Hubert, and the second, Johan, ruled successively after
their father's death ; the third was Zweer, fifty-second
Bishop of Utrecht; the fourth, Arent, was dean of St.
John's at Utrecht; the fifth, Peter, died without legiti-
mate issue; and the sixth Gerrit, lived at the castle at
Maurik, having married Jonkvrouw van Zuilan van
Nyveld. The eldest daughter, Megteld, married Lord
Johan Sibbe van Overwelde ; the second, Jutte or Judith,
married Lord van Reiff erscheid ; the third, Berta, died
single in her eighteenth year.

Lord Gerrit completed the suburb commenced by his
brother. Lord Jan. According to Sweder he also built
and added to his castle the Round Tower, built of heavy
bricks and stone, with four watch towers on the parapet.
It escaped destruction in 1735, and is now the only
reminder of the beautiful castle of the Lords and Counts
van Culemborg. Lord Gerrit had great disputes during
his rule with the Counts of Holland in reference to
having the Diejdyke made higher, which, however, he
agreed to in 1385 for a large sum of money, to the great
damage of his manor, for his subjects of the villages of
Langsmeer, Pavyen and Parys were greatly annoyed by
the stoppage of the water. He made a plan for the
building of an adjoining city and encouraged the country

*Rietstap: van Egmond, Hollande. Chevronne d'or et de
gueules, de douze pieces. Casque courrone. Cimier, un panache
en forme de pomme de pin, compose de plumes de sable. Ancienne-
ment la maison d" Egmond portait en cimier un cerj issuant de
gueules, rame d'or.

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people to build houses, which many did, which resulted
in the building of the Nieuwe Stad (New City) south of
the old, which is now called Nieuwpoort, and which city
he surrounded with a wide moat and a rampart of stone.
He also built the church of Lanksmeer called St. John's.
During the rule of this lord, the citizens of Culemborg
throughout Gelderland were declared free from taxes by
Willem van Gulick, Duke of Gelders, in 1388. In 1392
Willem, Duke of Gelders and Count of Zutven, acknowl-
edged in an open letter that Lord Gerard had loaned
him one thousand Rhenish guilders, in which letter he
refers to Lord Gerard as "our dear counsellor Gerard,
Lord van Culemborg and van der Lecke." Having
ruled seventeen years he died in 1394 (some say 1395,
which is error, as Lord Huibert V gave his hereditary
share to his brother Jan in 1394). He was buried in the
Chapel of the Church of Our Lady at Culemborg {Oud-
heusden, 38-42).

HuBRECHT, fifth of the name, eldest son of Gerard I,
was tenth Lord Van Culemborg. He was famed in
peace and war. In 1394 he bought his brother Johan's
share of the inheritance. In the same year Sweer and
Gerrit van Voorn agreed to make no claims upon Hu-
brecht. Lord van Culemborg, for the "Steenweerd"
laid in Culemborg on the Leek. In 1396 Lord Hubrecht
had a list made of the silver of the castle which was
seen and copied in the former century by Counsellor
Bosch. The same year he enlarged his manor of Culem-
borg with Overzydervelt, which he had purchased of
Lord Henrik van Vyanen, Ameyde and Goye. The
same year he built a chapel in the parish of Everdingen,
supposed to be the Golberdingen chapel (as Golber-
dingen belonged to the parish of Everdingen) which
still stood in the beginning of the eighteenth century,
and since it was torn down a memorial tablet was erected
with the inscription ' * Here stood formerly the Chapel of
Golberdingen."

In 1397, Jan. 18, at the Hague, Aelbrecht, Count of
Holland, gave freedom from taxes to the citizens of

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Culemborg in the district of Heusden. In 1404 Duke
Reynald of Gelders renewed the freedom. In 1405 Lord
Hubrecht married Jolante van Gaesbeek, daughter of
Zweer van Abkoude, and sister of Jakob, Lord van
Gaesbeek, Putten and Stryen, and niece of Willem,
Lord van Abkoude and Duerstede. In the marriage
contract, which was witnessed by Willem, Lord van
Abkoude and Duerstede, Gysbrecht, eldest son, van
Abkoude and Duerstede, Hubert, Lord van Culem-
borg and Lecke, Johan van Culemborg, Knight, and
Peter van Culemborg, brothers, Lord Willem van Ab-
koude and Duerstede promised to give his niece 8000
crowns. Lord Huibert did not have any children by
this marriage. Lord Hubrecht was in 1406 given in fee
by Willem of Bavaria, Count of Holland, the manors of
Tulle, Honswyk, Everdingen, and Golberdingen, also
two farms in the district of Ackooy, which was done at
The Hague the last day of May, 1406. Lord Hubrecht,
having been injured, as he thought, especially by the
inhabitants of Gelderland, took sides with the Hollanders
and united in 1409 with Willem of Bavaria, Count of
Holland, and became the enemy of Reinald, Duke of
Gelders, Jan, Lord van Arkel, and Jan, Willem's son,
as may be seen in the open letter of May 12, 1409, in
which he denies the Gelderland Duke in the following
manner: "Highborn Prince, Duke Reynald of Gulick
and of Gelders and Count of Zutphen, Gracious Lord:
I, Huybert, Lord van Culemborg and Leek, make known
to you that I give to you all such fiefs and soldiers as I
have received and held of you as I will no longer be
under oath of allegiance to you." After this letter was
dispatched they resorted to arms, and his castle at
Maurik was destroyed. Half of the damage was paid
by Count Willem and on account of the other half he and
his descendants were to be Regents of Holland until he
was fully paid. In 1410 Lord Hubrecht bought of Her-
baern van Heukelom, Lord van Ackooy, an acre of
land with manor situated below Ackooy, in order to have
a water-course laid there. In 141 1 Henrik van Vyanen

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sells "his dear nephew," Lord Hubrecht, the manor of
Lang Bolgery. In 141 2 peace was declared between
Prince Reinald and Willem, Count of Holland, in which
reconciliation Lord Hubrecht was also included. May
25, 1 4 13, Lord Hubrecht was enfeoffed by the Counts
of Holland with the manor Lang Bolgery in the presence
of Filips, Lord van Wassenaer, Burgrave of Leyden, and
Lord Gerrit van Stryen, Lord of Zevenbergen. In the
same year Lord Hubert gave the inhabitants of Ever-
dingen and Zyderveld a charter, which he also gave to
Schalkwyk, May 22, 1414, and in 14 16 gave a charter
to his citizens and subjects. In 1420 Lord Hubrecht
denied the Bishop of Utrecht, which was also done by
Lord van Gaesbeek, whereupon the Bishop of Utrecht,
Frederik van Blankenheim, on his behalf and the city of
Utrecht, denied Lord Hubert. Thereupon the country
was no longer at peace, and parts of Culemborg were
burned. Lord van Culemborg with Lord van Gaes-
beek marched to the Bishopric and burned all villages
up to Bilt, which occurred in 142 1. In the same year
Lord Hubrecht raised the church of St. Barbara to a
Collegiate Church, but, on account of the relations
existing, the Bishop's confirmation was not obtained
until 1422. In the same year peace was established
between the Duke of Gelders, Jan, Duke of Bavaria, the
Bishop of Utrecht, the Cities of Utrecht and Amers-
foort, and the Lords van Culemborg and of Utrecht.

About this time Lord Hubrecht died at The Hague,
where he was Chancellor of Holland, and was buried in
the Chapel of Our Lady with his ancestors. His widow
Jolente van Gaesbeek lived until 1443 and was buried
in the Convent of the Carthusians outside of Utrecht.
In 1422 the old city together with St. Barbara's Church
and St. Peter's Hospital and Church were burned.
Slichtenhorst says it occurred in 1420. Zweder says in
1 40 1 the old city of Culemborg was burned. As it was
beyond doubt in 1422, 1401 is probably a typographical
error, otherwise the city would have been twice com-
pletely destroyed by fire in twenty to twenty-one years.

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It is also stated that Lord Jan's successor rebuilt the
church. Lord Huibert was the last of the Lords to be
buried in the Chapel of Our Lady, as his brother Jan chose
as his burial place the choir of the newly -built church.
In the choir a brass tablet was fastened to one of the
pillars with instructions to the canons that they preserve
in memory the donor of the chapel and above was en-
graved the arms of Culemborg and Gaesbeek {Oudheus-
den, 43-53)-

JoHAN IV, second son of Gerrit I, and brother of
Hubrecht V, was eleventh Lord van Culemborg. During
his brother's life he was Lord of Weerd, and during such
period married Barbara, daughter of Lord van Gemen,
but did not have any children by her. His second wife
was Aleid, daughter of Arndt van Gutterswyk* (ped. 96),
Count of Bentheim, and Mechteld van Reifferscheid.
Aleid was sister of Everwyn van Gutterswyk, Count of
Bentheim. According to Zweder van Culemborg, Aleid
was obtained in marriage in the following manner : "It
happened that after his wife's death that Lord van Gemen
was to marry the Count of Bentheim's daughter, and
asked Jan van Culemborg, his brother-in-law, to visit
him, which he did and saw the Jonkvrouw on behalf of
van Gemen, who said to him, 'why do you keep talking
of Jan van Gemen, speak of yourself.' One day when
they were together he took her upon his horse and
carried her to Weerd to his castle, kept her there and
married her." By this wife he had three sons and four

* Rietstap : van Gutterswyk. Pays d'Overyssel, Westphalie.
Vaire d'or et de gueules.

Rietstap: Bentheim. Pays de Spire. Vaire d' argent et de
gueules (which agrees with the illustration by Oudheusden) .

Rietstap: Bentheim. Westphalie. De gueules a dix-huit
besants d'or, 4, 4, 4, 4, et 2. Cimier, un vol de gueules, seme de
besants d'or. Plus tard: de gueules d dis-neuf besants d'or, 4, 5,
4, J, 2, et I. Casque courrone. Cimier, un buste de More,
habille de gueules au rabat d'or, coi_ffe d'un bonnet albanais de
gueules, houppe d'or et ayant un rebord vivre de meme. (Oud-
heusden s illustration gives red besants on a golden field.)

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daughters. The eldest son Gerrit followed his father in
rule, the second, Zweer, died on the way to the Holy
Land, the third, Everwyn (according to Slichtenhorst) ,
sumamed Everdingen, possessed the "Steerweerd" situ-
ated opposite Culemborg, which had been assigned to
him by his brother Gerrit in 1453 with other property,
after division of the property. The eldest daughter,
Berta, married Johan van Arkel, Lord van Heukelom,
the second married the Knight Wynand van Arnhem,
the third married Lord van Bronkhorst Batenburg and
van Anhold, the fourth, Jutte, was nun at Diepenveen.
As soon as Lord Hubert van Culemborg died, Johan
assumed rule the same month, and was acclaimed as the
eleventh lord. Shortly after this, August 29, the dis-
sension which had existed between the Bishop Frederik
van Blankenheim, the States Utrecht and Amersfoort on
the one side, and Lord Hubrecht on the other side, was
laid aside in 1422. Lord Johan rebuilt the burned
Collegiate Church of St. Barbara very beautifully at his
own expense, together with the tower with a spire and
three galleries, which was later supplied with chimes,
which were melted in the fire of 1654, when that church
was destroyed for the second time. In his rule the
Hospital of St. Peter and the church or chapel belonging
thereto were also rebuilt. As Lord Hubrecht was held
in great esteem in Holland, so Lord Johan was esteemed
in Gelderland, and his name appeared with those of
other knights in a letter given by Duke Arnold of Gelders
to the city of Nymegen in 1423. In 1424 Gerard Cesar
established a permanent vicarage at St. Barbara's Church.
In 1427 Lord Johan built a wall around the Havendyk,
mainly because Utrecht had built a blockhouse on the
opposite side of the river Leek, opposite the Havendyk,
to distress the city, though the inhabitants of Culem-
borg did not remain passive, but shot at the workmen
and killed many of them. This was caused in the fol-
lowing way: after the death of Frederik van Blanken-
heim, the fifty-first Bishop, in 1423, and another was to
be elected, the votes fell upon Rudolph van Diepholt

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and Sweer van Culemborg, Cathedral Provost, Rudolph,
having the most votes, being elected Bishop. He was
brought to the city and placed in the Bishop's seat, but
he could not obtain the Papal approval on the ground
that he was an illiterate and worldly man, who did not
understand the Latin language. The Pope first gave
the vacancy to the Bishop of Spiers, but when the Bishop
did not feel inclined to go to a Bishopric which was so
divided, especially as Rudolph held all the strongholds,
he obtained by intervention of Pope Martinus the posi-
tion of Cathedral Provost for Sweer van Culemborg.
When this came to light a great division arose, some
taking sides with Rudolph van Diepholt, as Overyssel
did, while others obeyed the order of the Pope. Lord
Zweer in 1425 entered Utrecht with his friends, which
entry did not take place quietly, for as many outlaws
entered with the Bishop, a great uproar occurred and
several were killed. Afterwards the Bishop and the
councillors settled the dispute and Sweder was accepted
and enthroned by the ecclesiastical and the letter sealed.
He placed Rudolph, the postulate, and Overyssel under
ban, and read or had read each Sunday an everlasting
curse upon him. Sweder sat as Bishop until Whitsuntide.
Upon advice of some, he gave to Amersfoort Rheenen
and Ter Hoorst so that things might settle down. On
Whitsunday, 1426, Jan van Renesse van Rynouwen,
who the year before had also been turned out of the city,
entered Utrecht with several horsemen, dressed as
monks, and, with those who were expecting him, drove
all those who favored Bishop Sweder from the city.
The next day Rudolph van Diepholt came from the
castle at Wulven (where he had been in hiding waiting
for a favorable opportunity) and entered Utrecht, taking
possession of the Bishop's Castle. After this. Bishop
Sweder never entered Utrecht. The postulate Diepholt
and all pertaining to him were placed under the ban of
the Pope. He and his adherents paid no attention to
this, but most of the clergy and canons of the five churches
left him and the city and adhered to Bishop Sweder, as

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did Arend van Egmond, Duke of Gelders, and all Gelder-
land, and Filips, Duke of Burgundy, and all Holland,
and warred against the postulate and the Bishopric;
they also made an alliance with Bishop Sweder and
promised not to declare peace with the Bishopric without
his joining. Hereupon followed a destructive war on
all sides. Finally peace was declared between Filips,
Arnold and Rudolph the postulate in 1429 (according
to Heda) to the great regret and injury of Bishop Sweder,
though under the treaty of peace the Bishop's rights were
reserved. The Bishop went to the Council of Basil in
1432 to enter complaint, where he died of sorrow in
1433, and was buried in accordance with his will with
the Carthusians.

In this war Johan, Lord van Culemborg, could not be
at rest, as Bishop Sweer was his brother and the city of
Culemborg and land belonging thereto had on account
of Sweer to endure great danger, and it is readily under-
stood why the people of Utrecht by a blockhouse across
the Leek annoyed the people of Culemborg and why
Lord Johan strengthened the Havendyk on his side in
1427. In 1427 two servants of Bishop Sweer were
bribed by followers of Rudolph van Diepholt to poison
the Bishop. This was discovered and the servants were
tried before the Bishop, Lord Johan van Culemborg, the
Council of Amhem, Zutwen, Nymegen, etc., and were
condemned to die, which sentence was executed. In
1427 the Abbey of Marienweerd was plundered and
burned by Diepholt, who failing in an attack on the city
of Tyel wreaked his anger on the surrounding villages.
The reason for the destruction of the abbey was that
the abbot had banished, upon order of the Pope, the
inhabitants of the Bishopric of Utrecht who had driven
out Bishop Sweer. The abbey was later rebuilt, but
later, during the Netherlands' troubles, went to ruins.
The abbey, two hours from Culemborg, situated on the
Linge was founded, according to Heda, in 1128. The
founder was Herman, Count of Cuik, who was enjoined
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Holland, who was slain by his father near Hemert, which
founding was by the intervention of Andreas van Cuik,
Bishop of Utrecht, and whereby Herman van Cuik, with
Dideryk VI, Count of Holland, expiated. The abbey
was founded upon land belonging to him, which was
richly endowed, and the monks were required daily to
pray for the slain Count. Huibert van Culemborg also
gave many lands and tithes to the abbey. The first
abbot was Robert, kinsman of the King of England.
The abbey possessed 2157 acres of land, with tithes,
etc., which lands included Culemborg. The abbey was
plundered in 1493. The monks were often compelled
to abandon the abbey, on account of its condition, and
seek shelter at Culemborg. It was finally destroyed,
and the land sold to pay its debts.

In 1427 Bishop Sweder renewed the freedom of the
citizens of Culemborg from taxation. In 1428 Culem-
borg was saved from fire and pillage. Rudolph van
Diepholt, baffled in his attempt to poison Bishop Sweder,
sought to surprise the town and capture the Bishop.
They were about 1500 strong; they threw a bridge over
the moat and partly entered the town and, as a signal
to those outside, blew a trumpet, which aroused the
burghers who rushed to the gate, which the attacking
party was about to open, and killed most of the forty
who had scaled the wall and the balance put to rout.
From a letter of Zweder, Bishop of Utrecht, it appears
that Aert or Arend van Culemborg was seriously in-
jured. Jan van Buren, Provost, was of those of the
invaders who lost his life. He was the one who had
set fire to the abbey of Marienweert, and who being of
the clergy, was bound in duty to protect such a sanctuary.
It happened that Bishop Sweder was in the castle with
his brother Lord Johan that night and, hearing the
cries of Utrecht! Holland! Bueren! the clanking of
weapons, cries of women and children, etc., thought the
city had been taken, but three hours later he learned
that the enemy had been defeated. With his brother
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lying in the streets. Johan, Lord van Culenbiirg, issued
a proclamation expressing his gratitude at the victory.
As a thank offering he made several gifts to the church
and ordered that a certain amount of meal should be
given from his mills every Christmas Eve to the church
warden to be made into bread for distribution among the
poor. This was in 1428. The magistrate of the city
also founded a permanent memorial by way of special
services to be held, which was decreed in 1429, Letter
issued by Bishop Sweder in Latin. In 1429 peace was
declared between Filips, Duke of Burgundy, Count of
Holland, Arent van Egmond, Duke of Gelders, on one
side, and the postulate Rudolph van Diepholt on the
other, reserving Bishop Sweder's right of action. Lord
Johan van Culenburg was included in the treaty. At
the same time the Duke of Gelders was also reconciled
with Willem, Lord van Bueren. In 1430 the letter in
relation to the water-ways by way of the Zirkik was
granted by Lord van Arkel, which was renewed and
confirmed by Lady Jacoba, Dutchess of Bavaria, Coun-
tess of Henegouwen, of Holland, of Zealand, and Lady
of Vriesland as the heirs of the county of Culemborg
and of Vianen had, for a long time, been unable to use
their drained land in the section of Zirkik. In the same
year Willem, Lord van Bueren, sold a water-course from
Redichem through Weydsteeg to his nephew. Lord
Johan van Culenburg, ter Lecke and of Weerde and
his heirs. Though Lord van Culenburg was included
in the peace of 1429 between the postulate and Duke
of Gelders, nevertheless it appears that everything was
not settled between him and the Bishopric, as in 1431,
by intervention of Willem, Lord van Bueren, a recon-
ciliation was effected between Rudolph van Diepholt, the
cities of Utrecht and Amersfoort on one side, and Johan,
Lord van Culemborg, on the other. The letter was
sealed March loth of the same year. In 1431 Willem,
Lord van Bueren, acknowledged in a public letter that
he owed Jan, Lord van Culenburg, 2900 Rhenish guilders
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which was concurred in by his wife Ermgard van der
Lippe. Since Lord Johan was enfeoffed with this sec-
tion of Bosichem by Duke Arent of Gelders in 1433 it
appears that Willem van Bueren did not take care to
pay his debt. In 1435 Duke Arent of Gelders, with
Lord van Culemborg, were outside of Bueren and cap-
tured the two (Sweder's Origines, 648), others say in 1434.
Slichtenhorst says that the people of Bueren were turn-
coats, but that Duke Arent raised many peoples in
Nymegen, Zutven and Aernhem and brought the dis-
loyal citizens to obedience, that the people of Hardewyk
did their best and were very helpful so that the Duke
gave immunity from taxation throughout Gelderland
until they should be compensated to the sum of 1300
Rhenish guilders on account of the service and expenses
given by them (228). Slichtenhorst says that Bueren
was first captured by Duke Arent of Gelders in 1430 and
that Willem, Lord van Bueren, died shortly thereafter.
The first may be true, though it appears from many
letters that Willem was still Lord of Bueren after 1430,
even in 143 1 he placed as security for debts to Jan van
Culemborg a part of his manor of Bosichem, from which
one may suppose that he was then still owner and his
manor not yet declared forfeited, which must thus have
happened after the second siege. Concerning the second,
Willem van Bueren lived long in banishment, having
been deprived of his estates. To this state came Duke
Arent because Willem van Bueren, the last of his family.
Baron of Bueren and Bosichem, being a very bad and
restless man, like his brother Jan, had dared bring war
upon his lord. He was, consequently, deprived of his
patrimony and exiled and the manor was seized as for-
feited and afterwards went to the family van Egmond,
namely, Frederik, Floris and Maximihaen van Egmond,
with the rank of an earldom and came to the House of
Orange by the marriage of William I with Anna van
Egmond, MaximiHaen's daughter. In 1436 Lord
Johan van Culenburg gave to the citizens of his city,
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a new charter. About this time Lord Jan had much
trouble with the Bishop of Munster concerning his
manor of Weerd, which belonged in fee to the Bishop.
He had several times asked to be enfeoffed therewith,
but the Bishop refused. He invaded Weerdenbroek and
did much damage to Johan's subjects. The Munster
forces took a Jan de Clompener prisoner, took him to
Munster and there tortured and killed him, notwith-
standing the fact that Lord Johan and his son Lord
Gerard had asked for his release, for which they denied
the Bishop and allied themselves on the side of the
Duke Adolph of Cleve at that time at war with the
Bishop. Peace afterwards being declared between Mun-
ster and Cleve, Lord Johan again requested enfeoffment,
but it was refused, for which reason Lord Johan made
protest August 20, 1437, before a notary and witnesses.
In the following year, 1438, Lord Johan formed closer
relations with Bishop Rudolph and the city of Utrecht,
which was with the approval of his son Gerrit, Lord of
Weerd. Upon the strength of the agreement Lord
Johan was the same year enfeoffed by the Bishop with
the feudal estates of the Bishopric, mentioned in the
following feudal contract :

"We, Roedolph, by the Grace of God, Bishop of Utrecht,
make known to all men that before us appeared Johan,
Lord van Culemborg, of Lecke and of Bosichem, and
requested of us such feudal estates as he and his parents
hold and have held of the Bishopric of Utrecht, namely,
the estates described hereafter. First, the Gerichte of
Schalkwyk, with benefice, etc., the Steenward, with
appurtenances, situated near Culenburg in the parish
of Honswyk, and a country seat situated in the parish
of Ryswyk with 40 acres of land belonging thereto,
which we have given Lord Johan in fee to hold of this
Bishopric as his parents held the same. Done at
Utrecht in the year of our Lord 1438." Lord Johan had
scarcely effected peace with Utrecht, when Gerrit, bas-
tard van Culemborg, occasioned new dissention. He
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which was without knowledge of the Lord van Caets-
hage. The people of Utrecht, learning of this, sup-
posed Lord van Culemborg was cognizant thereof, as
Gerrit, bastard van Culemborg, went in and out of the
city and the fire of dispute had not yet broken out. In
revenge the Utrecht people attacked with force the
village of Everdingen, captured thirty-six good men and
shot Daniel van Everdingen to death. They carried
off animals, sheep and a great deal of booty. Lord van
Culemborg could not get back his subjects until he had
succeeded in getting Gerrit the bastard to return the
Utrecht citizens. To this end the Culemborg subjects
were obliged to pay Gerrit 600 French shields. Lord
Johan was Lord van Bosichem and Soelmond, which
title he also used, holding Soelmond in fee. In 1439
Duke Arent promised in a public letter to Walraven van
Hafter, his bailiff, and several others, among whom
the Burgomaster of Bueren, to redeem the pledged manor
of Bosichem and never to separate the same from Bueren
but that the two manors should remain one charge.
Though Duke Arent promised this in a public letter he,
nevertheless, again in 1443 gave the manor of Bosichem
in fee to Lord Johan van Culemborg. Slichtenhorst
says that the Duke Arent in 1444 bestowed upon Gerard,
eldest son of Culemborg, the governing of the castle
and district of Bueren with duty of vassalage, paying
the Duke therefor 6000 Rhenish guilders, and to Wal-
raven van Haften, Stadtholder at that time, 7500 of the
same guilders which he owed to the manor of Bueren
(237). Duke Arent pledged this manor to Gerard van
Culemborg and afterwards presented it to Frederik
van Egmond, Lord of Ysselstein. Frederik van Egmond
married a daughter of Lord Gerard, so this manor, with
the sanction of the father-in-law, who had ever held it
from Duke Arent (or who had always been on good
terms with Duke Arent), may have gone to the son-in-
law and his descendants by bestowal of the Duke as
feudal lord. One must also add that Bueren in the
Gelderland disputes was besieged and taken time and

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again, and that Adolph held his father prisoner in the
fortress, after whose death this manor was conferred upon
Frederik van Egmond in 1472 by Duke Arent mainly
because he had had to endure a great deal on Duke
Arent's account at the hands of the godless Adolph. In
1445 the wife of Gerrit van Culemborg at Killestein gave
the hospital on behalf of the deserving poor in Culemborg
a half farm at Bolgery to provide linen, bread, meat,
shoes and other necessities. In the same year Lord
Johan managed the House Amersojen and took it over
on behalf of Lord van Weerdenburg, who was son of a
daughter of the Culemborg family, and to whom the house
belonged. He drove out the occupants who had cap-
tured it on behalf of Jan van Bossem {Sweder, 649).
About 1448 Lady Aleid van Gutterswyk van Culemborg,
Weerd, etc., died. In 1750 a piece of a white memorial
stone, on which was her coat-of-arms with that of
Culemborg, was dug up in the southern kruiskand; how
it happened to be there is a mystery. Without doubt the
stone had been attached to a pillar or wall of the choir,
where she was buried and, possibly, got among the ruins at
the time of the terrible desolation of the fire of 1654. The
Utrecht people became angered at Bishop Rudolph and
wished to drive him away. The Bishop, being informed
of this, fled but came secretly in 1449 with his people
and those of Amersfoort into the city, through an open-
ing in the rampart or wall. This caused great excite-
ment. The Bishop and the Lord of Montfoort were
thrown from their horses. It looked as though the
Bishop would be defeated, but the Amersfoort people
rushed to the rescue and caused the Bishop's enemies
to retreat, the Bishop coming off victorious. Many
prominent citizens lost their lives. In 1450 two altars
were built in St. Barbara's Church and consecrated by
Jodocus, Vicar-General of Bishop David of Burgundy.
Lady Aleid van Gutterswyk died 1448. According to
her will she had promised a house in Culemborg to the
sisters of Mariencroon, near the Convent, from which
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two-pint measures of wine. This gift was confirmed
by Lord Johan who added a Hke amount. In 1449,
Gerrit, bastard of Hubert, Lord van Culenburg, for his
100 shields made a march on the people of Culemborg,
which turned out badly, for sixteen of his companions
were captured and beheaded at Culemborg, among whom
was Wouter van Amstel of the family of Culemborg
(Sweder Origines, 650). Wouter van Amstel must have
been a descendant of Lord Wouter van Amstel van
Mynden, who married Judith van Culemborg, third
daughter of Hubert, the fourth of that name, but seventh
Lord van Culemborg, and Judith van der Lecke. Lord
Johan, after having reigned thirty years and who had
seen in his time many wars, desolations, changes of
reign and states, etc., had, during all these dangerous
and sad times, rebuilt his old city, besides the Collegiate
Church of St. Barbara, and the Hospital of St. Peter with
the church and had also built a monastery, finally died
April I, 1452, and was buried in the choir of St. Bar-
bara's Church, which he had rebuilt at his own expense
{Ondheusden, 53-92).

Gerard II, son of Jan IV, was twelfth Lord van
Culemborg. During his father's life he married in
1 44 1 Elizabeth van Bueren, only daughter of Jan van
Bueren, Lord of Ewyk, etc., and Eleanora van Borsele,
sister of Vrank van Borsele, Count of Oostervant, Lord
of Hoogstraten (which he purchased of one of the van
Cuyk family), of St. Martensdyk, Borsele, etc., in
Zieland, van Zuilen and Westbrock, etc. By this mar-
riage with Lady Elizabeth van Bueren many manors
came to the Lords of Culemborg for, as Lord Vrank
van Borsele left no legitimate children, all these manors
reverted to his sister Eleanora van Borsele and her
descendants, which at the time of Lady Elizabeth and
Anthonis van Lalaing were dispersed and separated
from Culemborg. St. Martendyk in Zeeland went to
Egmond during Gerard's life; Hoogstraten later went
to the family Lalaing; Zuilen and Westbroek by par-
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Willem van Rennenberg. In 1454 Lord Gerard was
enfeoffed by the Count of Holland with Everdingen,
Golberdingen, etc., Tulle, Honswyk, the stream of
Leek, fisheries, etc., as these were separated from the
manor of Hagestein, also with Lang Bolgery. Lord
Gerard was very compassionate and established the
"Poor Pool" in 1455. In December of the same year
Wouter van Digteren and Jan Gysberts built a per-
manent vicarage at St. Barbara's Church for their souls,
their wives', and their childrens', which was endowed by
Lord van Culemborg. In 1458, on St. Simon's and
Jude's Day, a permanent provostship was established
by Lord Gerard in St. Barbara's Church for the souls
of Elizabeth van Bueren and Lord Sweder van Culem-
borg, for which he gave a house to St. Barbara's Church,
with about sixty-one acres. The lands were situated
at Culemborg, Assche, Tricht, Erichen, Bueren and
Bosichem. In 1460 Rutger van der Boetselaer, who was
married to Elburg van Langerak and was half Lord of
Asperan, was shot dead at his castle by a Willem van
Bueren on account of a dispute which Rutger had with
Arent Pick van Beestdam, who was joint half Lord of
Asperan. Willem van Bueren entered into the dis-
pute because he was son of a sister of Arent Pick. After
having shot Rutger, Willem fled to the castle of Arent
Pick, which was thereupon attacked by the Burgun-
dians, whereupon Willem endeavored to flee to the
nearby monastery, but was captured, taken to The
Hague and there beheaded. The half manor with the
castle was declared forfeited and given to Carel of
Burgundy, Count of Charlois. In 1461 Johan, Lord van
Gimmenig at Linden, sells to Gerard, Lord van Culem-
borg, his inheritance from his mother Lady Johanna
van Linden Ter Lede, etc., which estates consisted of
the manors of Linden ter Lede, the Aldenweerd and
Schulenborgevweerd, the gerigtt at Ommeran with church
benefice, chapels, altars, vassals, mills, tithes, fisheries,
etc. A letter of transfer was given by him sealed by
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Lord at Zaelen, his nephew, dated March i6. About
this time the canons of St. Barbara were at odds with
the deacon, which dispute was settled by Lord Gerard
in a letter of January lo, 1462. He framed an ordinance
regarding perjury, whereby it was decreed that anyone
committing perjury should forfeit the two forefingers
or else appear in church at High Mass in linen garments
and have his fingers released from their perjury in front
of the cross, etc., etc., etc. To illustrate how scarce
money was at this time. Otto van Heukelom, whose
father Jan van Arkel, Lord van Heukelom, was banished
from his manor May 22, 1462, acknowledged that he
had asked his uncle Gerard, Lord van Culemborg, to
loan him eighteen Rhenish guilders; that his uncle
wished to loan him yearly, besides 12 Rhenish guilders
each month, one guilder for food and drink, which his
uncle promised to do. This seems almost incredible,
but when one reads that a pensionary of Amsterdam
received a yearly salary of eighteen guilders the fore-
going seems more probable. Lord Gerard had by his
wife Elizabeth van Bueren a son Jaspar and two daugh-
ters; the eldest, Aleyd, married in 1464 Frederik van
Egmond in the presence of both of the fathers, Willem
van Egmond, brother at Gelders, Lord van Egmond,
and Gerard, Lord van Culemborg, together with Johan
the eldest son of Egmond, of Jaspar, only son of Lord
Gerard, Lady Aleid's brother, and other lords, respec-
tively, brothers, uncles, nephews, etc., etc. In the
family register of Egmund it is stated that Frederik
van Egmond, Lord of Ysselstein, married Aleid, daugh-
ter of Gerrit van Culemborg, Lady van Bueren and St.
Martensdyk. She died July 31, 1472, and was buried
at Ysselstein. He had the manor of Bueren conferred
upon him and in 1492 was raised by Maximiliaen to be
first Count van Bueren and Leerdam. He died 1500 and
was buried with his wife. The youngest daughter of
Lord Gerard, whom he had by his wife Elizabeth van
Bueren, also named Elizabeth, became a nun in the
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father Gerard and brother Jasper gave in 1476 certain
rents of estates at Bueren. His wife EHzabeth died be-
fore Johan, Lord van Culenburg, Lord Gerrit's father,
in 1 45 1, so Lord Gerard was left a young widower and
had, it appears, from recollection of the love he bore
his wife, or for other reasons, no inclination to marry
again. He buried his wife in the choir of St. Barbara's
Church, under a blue sarcophagus, which was the only
one that at the burning of the church in the terrible fire
of 1654 remained in existence. On the middle of the
stone is cut the arms of Culemborg on the right and
those of Bueren on the left side; on the four comers of
the stone are the four quarterings:

Bueren Borsele

Bronkhorst Bergen

The marginal inscription is as follows, so far as it is
legible :

"In the year of our Lord MCCCCLI on Annunciation
Day died. . . .Elizabeth. . . .Weerd and Ewyk. Pray
for her soul."

In 1463 the difference between the people of Utrecht
and Lord Gerard was kindled on account of the juris-
diction of Honswijk. Previously negotiations were in
progress between Johan van Culemborg, Gerrit's father,
and Willem, Lord van Bueren, regarding taxation of
each other's lands, and the matter was referred to Johan
van Broekhuizen at Meerdenburg and Sweder Boiling,
Commander at Tyel, in 1434, though nothing came of
this as Willem was banished from his land. In 1464
this was taken up again when, upon request of the Duke
of Gelders and Lord Gerard van Culemborg, decision
was rendered by Jan van Haeften, Commander at
Tyel, and Frank Pick, Justiciary of Bommel and Tyel-
reweerd, that if the subjects of Bueren were subjected
to full taxes those of Culenburg having property in the
land of Bueren should pay only half. In the same year
the Duke of Gelders, as Lord of Bueren and Bosichem,
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fair which was held yearly at Culemborg to the dis-
advantage of the people of Bosichem on St. John's Day,
to which Lord Gerard replied that he would hold the
fair a day later. At this time an uncompromising
quarrel arose between Duke Arnold or Arent of Gelders
and his godless son Adolf van Egmond who imprisoned
his old father. Lord Gerard sided with the Duke. The
difference was occasioned because Adolf, attaining his
majority, did not like that his father lived so long and
wished to continue ruling. Later he again disputed
with his father, incited thereto by his mother, but this
difference was also overcome by the goodness of the
father, and Catharina van Cleve, the mother, and her
son returning to the city to the father. Duke Arent,
because of continued cold weather, had given orders
that, for the safety of those in the castle, the ice on the
moats should be broken up, but Adolf, having his plot
in view, persuaded his father to leave a portion of the ice
unbroken, representing that he and the ladies wished to
amuse themselves on it and thus paved the way for an
assault. Four days later Adolf confided to his nephew
Frederik van Egmond that the Nymegen people were
his allies and would be on hand after dinner and the
dance which was to follow. The old Duke was par-
ticularly happy at seeing his son enjoying himself and
late at night excused himself on account of his age and
retired. Shortly afterwards the door of the Duke's
room was broken open and he was obliged to get up
and in his bare feet and scanty attire follow his son out
of the castle over the ice, which had been left uncut, and
over the Maes (River Maas) , where he was awaited by
the people of Nymegen; he was put upon a horse and
taken away in the bitter cold and, at his request, was
not taken to Nymegen, but to Lobeth and the following,
others say the same, night, was locked up in the castle
of Bueren. Frederik van Egmond was also taken pris-
oner. This created a great excitement. Lord Gerard
was very much affected, especially as his son-in-law
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as he did not release his son-in-law, and as his subjects
were being damaged by those of Bueren, he would have
nothing further to do with him. In the same year Lord
Gerard made a treaty with Johan, Duke of Cleve, and
Willem van Egmond, brother, at Gelders, against Adolf.
In 1466 the Gelderland people by order of Adolf attacked
Ysselstein, of which Frederik van Egmond was Lord,
and burned and plundered everything, not excepting
churches, old and young people, etc. Some of the
marauders went to Gorichem with their booty, expect-
ing to escape justice there, but forty-five were captured,
nineteen broke way and fled for safety to the Franciscan
brothers and the Church of the Holy Ghost, but no
altar could protect those who had had no reverence for
churches. Upon orders of Duke Filips of Burgundy
they were taken by a fiscal to The Hague and in spite of
great intercession, were there beheaded as murderers
April 26 and May 29. Though Adolf was warned by
Duke Filips of Burgundy he, nevertheless, attacked the
lands of those who sympathized with his old father.
Unexpectedly he entered the manor of Culemborg with
his infantry and cavalry in the vicinity of Golberdingen,
but the burgess fought bravely and Adolf met with
defeat, and the Gelderlanders fled to Tyel, many being
killed on the way and others taken prisoners and held
for ransom. So Duke Adolf lost inclination to again
fall into the hands of the faithful burgers. Lord Gerard,
though he was Duke Arent's friend, made an agreement
of peace with Adolf in 1467, possibly, for one reason, to
protect his manors, many of which lay in Gelderland,
and especially to save Culemborg from invasion, theft
and fire, and Adolf promised over his signature and
seal to pay to Lord Gerard 10420 Ceurvoistelyke guilders
which his father had promised to pay Lord Gerard on
St. Victor's Day in 1448, or else to yield to him the
castle and land of Bueren, as the letter mentioned. At
this period a nobleman could maintain himself a whole
year on twelve guilders. The aforesaid reconciliation
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the former did not live up to the agreement, whereupon
Lord Gerard denied him. This was in June 1468. In
this year Hubert van Culemborg became reconciled with
Lord van Culemborg, which was occasioned by a letter
written by Hubert in which he acknowledged that he
had done wrong in burning two of Lord van Culemborg 's
mills, houses, and damaging his subjects, etc., and ex-
pressed his gratitude to Everwyn and Willem van
Culemborg, his dear nephew and brother, in that they,
at his request, had interceded for him with Lord van
Culemborg when the latter had placed him in the stocks
for his depredations. He acknowledged Lord van Culem-
borg as the head of the House and promised to pay him
for the damages he had inflicted, which was done in
i486. In 1469, in December, a marriage was con-
cluded at Brussels between Lord Jasper van Culemborg,
Lord Gerard's son, and Lady Johanna of Burgundy in
the presence of Lord Gerard, the father, and Frank van
Bosele, Count of Oostervant and Lord of Borsele, St.
Martensdyk, Hoogstraten, Zuilen, etc., great-uncle of
the bridegroom, on the one side, and Lord Antonis of Bur-
gundy and his eldest son FiUps of Burgundy, on the
other side. Lord Gerrit was to give: Ewyk, a feif in
Gelderland; all the lands in the Betuwe; all which he
inherited from his mother, except that his grandmother
Eleanora should retain the income of Borsele; the house
Ter Lede, Linden, Schuilenburg, the Ouderweerd and
surroundings; the fortress and manor of Maurik, with
two villages, Maurik and Eck; after Lord Gerrard's
death, Culemborg; Weerd, on the old Yssel with Weer-
derbroek; Everdingen, Golberdingen, Zyderveld, Bol-
gery, Honswyk and Schalkwyk. After Adolf had kept
his father prisoner in the castle of Buren, refusing to
listen to any intervention, Duke Carel of Burgundy,
brother-in-law of Adolf, spoke to him of the matter.
He invited Adolf to visit him, which he did, and took
with him a large following to Hesdin, where, having
been there a while, he was urged while at table, to give
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Governor of the Castle of Bueren was ordered to release
Duke Arnald at once and place him in the house of Henrik
van Parwis and Filips van Wassenaer, who took the old
Prince van Bueren to Tyel and afterwards to Hertogen-
bosch, where he was received and welcomed with much
joy by the citizens. The clergy conducted him with
torches to the Church of St. John, where they offered
thanks for his release from prison, where he had been
confined six years. From here he traveled to Hesdin
and was received at the Count of Burgundy's with all
appearance of esteem. At Dorlens, where Carel was
stopping, the parley between father and son took place,
which ran so high that the son made fun of the father,
and the latter drew his sword. Philippus Cominaeus
was a witness to this. Carel offered Adolf the Stadt-
holdership of Burgundy and entire possession of Gel-
derland, with exception of the city of Grame on the
Maes, which he allowed the old father, together with
6000 gold guilders yearly and the title of Duke of Gelders.
Cominaeus with others placed this suggestion before
Adolf on behalf of Carel, to which he replied that he
would rather his father drown in a well and he jump
after him than accept such a proposition, that his father
had reigned forty-four years and that it was now time
that he should have a turn. He would have no objec-
tions to his receiving 3000 guilders, but with the condition
to move from Gelderland and never return there. This,
naturally, occasioned a great revulsion of feeling of the
Count of Burgundy towards the godless son, so that
Adolf's interests had a great setback. He fled secretly
from Hesdin, was discovered at Namen and, upon orders
of Carel, was secured in the castle and taken from there
to Vilvoorden and finally to Cortryk, where he remained
imprisoned until the death of this Duke of Burgundy.
This revulsion occurred in 1470. Duke Arent thus re-
stored, showed his gratitude to Lord Gerard who had
always aided him as much as possible with money and
men, for, as Lord of the City of Bueren, he confirmed
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regarding a water-course which Lord Johan had purchased
from Willem, Lord van Bueren. He gave a sealed letter
in regard thereto, upon advice of Willem, Lord van
Egmond, March 29, 1472. In the same year Duke
Arent further confirmed the aforesaid privileges and
transfers undertaken with Lord van Bueren because
Lord Gerard with his city and land of Culemborg had
served the Duke faithfully. The same day the Duke
confirmed the exemption from taxation throughout
Gelderland for the inhabitants of Culemborg. In 1472
Duke Arent of Gelders gave the city of Bueren with
taxes and subordinate village to his brother's son Fred-
erik van Egmond, Lord of Ysselstein, who had on his
account been imprisoned by Adolf, but who had tem-
porarily fled {Slichtenhorst, 207). July, 1472, a truce
was effected between Gerard, Lord van Culemborg, and
his brother Everwyn on one side and the cities of
Nymegen, Zutven and Arnhem on the other side. The
letter of truce was sealed by Gerard, Lord van Culemborg,
Everwyn, brother. Burgomasters and Councillors of
Culemborg with the city seal. Hubert and Sweder van
Culemborg, bastard, John van Cuyk, etc., on one side,
and Dirk van der Horst, Knight, High-Bailiff of Veluwe,
Burgomasters, Justices and Councillors of the city of
Nymegen, etc., with the seals, in 1472.

Feb. 23, 1473, Duke Arent died suddenly in the
City of Grave, where he was buried, according to his re-
quest, at 's Hartogenbosch, in a silver casket, in the
Gertruide Cloister. The reason was that a nun of this
cloister frequently visited and comforted him while he
was in prison at Bueren and had even offered him her
garments that he might escape but which had been de-
clined for fear she might come to harm. After Arent' s
death the followers of his son Adolf (though still in
prison) became active. But the friends of the father,
among whom was Lord Gerard, were on the side of
Carel the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. The latter came
to Gelderland with a large army, besieged certain cities,
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favor and he was proclaimed as Duke of Gelders and
Count of Zutphen. He held his council chamber at
Arnhem and appointed Willem van Egmond his gover-
nor or lieutenant. Lord Jasper, son of Lord Gerard,
held a commission from Carel and captured Beuren and
the castle. July 3, 1474, Lord Jasper was, with his
father's consent, enfeoffed by the Count at Nymegen,
according to Zutven laws, with certain estates, such as
Ewyk, with appurtenances, eighty acres of land called
the Geeran situated below Maiden in Bueren, and other
manorial properties which he inherited from his mother
Elizabeth van Bueren. In 1475 there was again trouble
at Honswyk with the Bishopric. The marshal had
sounded the gong to call the inhabitants to assist at the
hanging of a thief. The Honswyk people complained
to Lord Gerard, who referred the matter to his feudal
lord, the Duke of Burgundy, and finally obtained a
decision in favor of the Court of Holland by which he was
upheld in the undisturbed possession, etc. Done at The
Hague Oct. 27, 1475, by Mr. John Halewyn, President,
etc. This is mentioned because Honswyk was always a
bone of contention which was not settled until the time
of Floris n. Count van Culemborg. Duke Carel of
Burgundy the following year had trouble with the Swiss
and invaded their country; they begged for peace. He
refused. He was twice defeated but would not give in,
but invaded the lands of the Duke of Lotharingen be-
cause he was united with the Swiss and besieged Nancy,
where he was put to flight and found dead three days
later with his face frozen to the ice. He was brought to
Nancy and buried. Many of his followers were taken,
among whom was Lord Anthonis of Burgundy, Lord
Jasper's father-in-law.

Adolf van Egmond was in the meanwhile still in prison
at Cortryk but was released by those of Gent with con-
sent of Maria of Burgundy and appointed General over
those who were equipped to fight against those of Door-
nik. He came before that city and, in a sally, was
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dead body was placed upon a horse by the French, taken
into the city and buried there without princely honors.
After Duke Carel was killed before Nancy and his
daughter Maria of Burgundy married Maximiliaen,
Archduke of Austria, Lord Gerard was requested by
Catharina of Gelders, sister of Adolf, to assist in having
Adolf's children Carel and Philippe restored their prop-
erty but he remained on the side of the Austrian until
the end of his life,

Elizabeth van Culemborg, Lord Gerard's youngest
daughter, was, as already stated, a nun and now Princess
of Diepenveen. She had been taken out by her father,
but in January, 1477, resigned all her claims of succes-
sion which came to her through her mother Elizabeth van
Bueren, and Gerard's mother, Elianora van Borsele,
afterwards called van Nyenrode after her second husband,
or from anyone else from whom she might inherit. In
1478, Archduke Maximiliaen being in possession of Gel-
derland, confirmed at 's Hertogenbosch, on account of
all the faithful services which Lord Gerard had shown
his ancestors, especially to Dukes Arent of Gelders and
Carel of Burgundy, all the privileges and prerogatives
which Duke Arent of Gelders and the other ancestors
had given Lord Gerard, his citizens and subjects. At
the same time in February, Duke Maximihaen made
known to Lord Gerard that to decrease the amount
which Arnold and Adolf remained indebted to Lord
Gerard in the sum of 22,676 guilders he would pay on
account 10,000 thereof, which was to be paid from the
revenues of the district of Nymegen. A sealed letter
was given, but the payment did not take place, probably
because the Archduke could not obtain possession of
Gelderland. Shortly thereafter many of the states of
Gelderland revolted and would not swear allegiance to
Maximiliaen and summoned Catryn, Adolf's sister.
Everything was thus in confusion and Frederik van
Egmond, Lord of Ysselstein, and his brother, Willem van
Egmond, were taken prisoners April 22, 1478, near
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the Gelderlanders took possession of Leerdam and es-
tablished Niclaes van Haeften as Governor. As Lord
Gerard took sides with the Burgundians he had an active
part in this difference and his subjects had to suffer con-
siderably. While Maximiliaen in 1480 went to war on
the Gelderlanders he sent many men at arms to Asperan
as he wished to capture both castles. The Burgundians
fell upon Asperan and defeated its citizens, plundered
the town, stormed the castle and everything possible was
destroyed.

In the meanwhile Lord Gerard died March 9, 1480,
and was buried by his wife, Elizabeth van Bueren, in
the low choir under a blue sarcophagus, still there and un-
injured in the terrible fire of 1654. {Oudheusden, 92-125.)

Melchior van Culemborg was the son* of Gerard
II, twelfth Lord van Culemborg. He married Barta,
daughter of Willem van Wijef of Echteld (ped. 87).
Melchior was Judge, Bailiff or Sheriff (Richter or Schout)
of Culemborg in 1492 {Oudheusden, Vol. 11, 599), and
re-appointed thereto November 20, 151 1, by Antonis van
Lalaing, Lord of Montigni, and Elizabeth van Culemborg,
his wife, in recognition of faithful services and with whom
he was to reside when they were at Culemborg (Outheusden

* Natural son. Otidheusden, 103, in which are quoted Anth.
Mattheus' Annotations of Sweeder van Culemborg's Origines
655; Mss. of Mr. Nicolaes Bosch, Counsellor Ordinary, Stadt-
holder of Fiefs, etc. , and Keeper of the Archives ; also mentioned
in Mss. pedigree of the van Culemborg family by Arend van
Buchell or Buchelius, of the 16th century, Mss. pedigree of the
same family by A. Shoemaker, 1690, both of which are in pos-
session of Edwin Jaguett Sellers; and Mss. pedigree in pos-
session of the Council of the Nobility at The Hague, compiled
by Willem Ann, Baron van Spaen la Lecq, who was President
of the Council in 1816. His marriage is referred to in the same
authorities.

t Rietstap : Wyhe d'Echtelt. Frise. {Ren. du titre de bar on
du St. Empire, ij jun, 1742.) D'argent seme de billette d'azur;
au lion de gueules, courrone d'or, brochant sur le tout. Casque
Courrone. Cimier, le lion, issuant. Lambrequins, d'argent at
de gueules.

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158). Elizabeth van Culemborg was daughter of Jasper I,
thirteenth Lord van Culemborg, son of Gerard II, and
succeeded Lord Jasper as fourteenth ruler; her first
husband was John of Luxemburg, Lord of Vile, Knight
of the Golden Fleece, nephew of Philip, King of Castile
and Archduke of Austria. Antonis van Lalaing, her
second husband, whom she married April 11, 1509, was
Lord of Montigni, Knight of the Golden Fleece and,
subsequently. Count of Hoogstraten and Stadtholder of
Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht {Oudheusden, 152, et seq.).

April 10, 1 5 10, Melis Beemtz acknowledged a con-
veyance to Hugo die Goyer of ten acres of land at Rietveld,
which was ratified by Dirck van Coten, Jan Jan Beerntsz,
Geryt Koell and Melis Beemtz, Aldermen (Schepenen) at
Culemborg, which was done before Melchior van Culen-
borch. (Archives of Culemborg, deposited at the office
of the Royal Archives, Amhem. No. 2127.)

Sept. 18, 1 5 10, Melis Kuyl conveyed and transferred
to the hands of "our Stadholder in our behalf" a halfhouve
of land situate in Culenburgerbroeck called the Hontshoeve,
as "our lands join above and below those of the aforesaid
gentleman," together with the rights which Margriet,
wife of the aforesaid Melis, had therein. "The same
having been granted to me is now pledged to Cornells
van Droemel according to the Zutphen laws in feudal
gift as correctly appears from a French shield which the
Lord van Culemborch had used during the time of his
tenure. And the aforesaid Comelis has made homage
and taken the oath." Deed by Herman van Kuick and
Gerit van Everdingen of July 20, anno 8. Cornells van
Dromel requested this fief from Melchior, Stadholder of
my Lord of Montigni of Culemburg, etc. Witnesses
Ysbrant Jacobssen and Peter Strong, Sept. 18, anno 10
(15 10). (Protocol of the fiefs of Culemborg, Arnhem,
marked GV, 1438-153 1, folio 50.)

Jonkheer Melchior van Culenborg mentioned in the
list of Justices or Bailiffs (Richters or Schouten) of
Culemborg, 1492 {Oudheusden, Vol. 11, 599), and also in
15 14 (Ibid., 600).

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June 25, 1 5 16. Testimony at the request of Melchior
van Culenborch, Justice (Drost) at Lede, on account of
Anna van Culenborch, widow van Pallant, taken before
Aelbert van Ermelen in Lower Betuwe concerning a sand
and osier field which came up in the Rhine at Wiell, to
which Henrick van Maudijk, Canon of the Cathedral at
Utrecht, also makes claim. Sealed by the Bailiff (Ambt-
man) and the Court Clerks RoelofT van Darthuijzen and
Johan Wolters (Charters of Culemborg, Arnhem, No.
2221).

Sept. 29, 1517. Melchior van Culenborch, Justice
(Drost) at Lee (Lede), in the name of Anna van Culen-
borch, widow van Pallant, as heir of Jasper van Culen-
borch, on the one side, Henricj Jansz. Coutwerker and
Tut van Olmen his daughter, as heirs of Peter and
Frederick van Olmen, on the other side; settle the
differences concerning the property at Yngen in the
jurisdiction of Ommeren. Anna will give 100 e. guilders
and, in consideration thereof, the others will renounce
their succession; Seals, etc. Sealed by the dedingslieden
Herman van Boetbergen and Peter van Andelyen, also
by Henrick and Tut aforesaid (Charters of Culemborg,
Arnhem, No. 2231).

March 12, 15 18. Agreement made between Jacob
Pieck and the Lord of Montigni and Culemborch con-
cerning differences about a "mangeling" of land which
occurred between Herman Pieck and the father of Jasper,
Lord van Culemborch. Signed by the parties and also
by Gerrit Jan Melisz. and Melchior van Culenborch as
"Dedingslieden" (Charters of Culemborg, Arnhem, No.
2239).

Nov. 27, 1 5 18. Melchior van Culenborch as Justice
(Drost) at Lede, on behalf of Anna van Culenborch,
Lady van Pallant, on the one side, Goyer van Breuck and
Clemens, married persons, on the other side; declare
that they have concluded an "butinge of mangelinge"
(exchange?) of 2 acres of land in the Mydbroick, in the
Maalschap Aalst, Parish of Liendenfor, i}^ acres of
which "Corteynden" (adjoin?) there. Sealed by Mel-

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chior, Goyer, Clemens and, upon request, by Bernyer
van Groitfelt, Dirck van Groitfelt, Herberen van Ewyck
and John van Wyck Jansz (Charters of Culemborg,
Arnhem, No. 2249).

June 20, 1520. Anna van Culenborch, widow van
Pallant, consents that Margareta at Culenborch "tuch-
tigt" (?) her husband Guillaume Prevost to half of two
drained lakes in Maurick called Beexweerd and Borre-
weerd. Present were Willem van Strythagen, Justice
(Drost) of Pallant, and Curick Speckhouwer. Sealed by
Anna (Charters of Culemborg, Arnhem, No. 2270).

Aug. 12, 1520. Melchior van Culenborch, Stadt-
holder of the fiefs of Anna van Culenborch, etc., invests
Guillaume Prevost with the aforesaid usufruct. Feoffees
were Jan van Wyk Geritsz. and Reynier die Kemp.
Sealed by the Stadtholder and the vassals (Charters of
Culemborg, Arnhem, No. 2270).

April 28, 1 52 1. Melchior van Culenborch conveys to
Dirck van Cothen a property situated on the Achterstraat
where one goes from the citadel to the church between
the house of Jan van Kuycx and the City street (Protocol
of Sheriff's Notices at Culemborg, 15 20-1 534, Inv. No.
I lAi, folio 8).

April 28, 1 52 1. Dirck van Cothen conveys to Mel-
chior van Culemborch the free property in the Gulden
Hoefft. Melchior granted the said house to Jan Vreem
Geritss under the same conditions that Cothen granted
the same to him in perpetuity (Ibid.).

Sept. 12, 1532. Anthonis van Lalaing and Elizabeth
van Culenborch charge Melchior van Culenborch that
after them he may be Bailiff (Drost) and Castellan of the
House Culenborch and after their death not to open said
house for anyone but their nephew Erart van Pallant.
Sealed and signed by Anthonis, signed by Elizabeth
(Charters of Culemborg, Arnhem, No. 2422).

Melchior and his wife were members of the Brother-
hood of the Holy Sacrament at Culemborg {Oudheusden
163). Buchelius mentions Melchior as Judge (Drost) at
Leda in 1527.

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July 4, 1538, appeared before the Judges (Richteren)
Hubertss. Joost, Man and Zurmont, Beerte, widow of
Melchior van Culenborch, with guardian and acknowl-
edged conveyance to Geertruyt Claes, Weyman's
daughter, of the house and appurtenances situate in
Vorder Street between Jan Rijcken and Aernt Buth,
including Jan Vreem's release. Deed dated July 3rd.
(Protocol of Sheriff's notices (Schepenkennissen) of
Culemborg, 1535-1557, H, No. I 1A2, folio 12, Arnhem).

July 22, 1545. Mrs. Magdalena van Buchel with
tutor, widow of the late Gisbert van Doirn as saichoU
and surety and promised Juffrouw Beerta, widow of the
late Melchior van Culenborch Gerytz. and her children
six Holland guilders per year at 20 stivers Holland per
guilder from a piece of land of about two mergen more or
less situate in the Cortte Aventuer (Protocol of Powers
of Attorney of Culemborg, 1 540-1 546, Inv. No. IV, Ai,
folio 242).

Aug. 5, 1545. Peter Gerytz. the brewer conveys to
Juffrouw Beerta, widow of the late Melchior van Culem-
borch, Bailiff (Drost) of Lede, and her children a mort-
gage of six Holland guilders per year hereditary redeem-
able annuity standing upon the house of Hannegen
Jonge Jans and her children situate on the Vorderstraat
(Ibid., folio 243).

May 19, 1547. We, Sheriff, Burgomasters, Judges and
Council of the City of Culemborch made known individ-
ually as actual truth that on the date hereof appeared
before us the honorable Juffrouw Beerte, widow of the
late Melchior van Culemborch, Bailiff (Drost) at Lede,
aged about 62 years, and testified before us in the pro-
ceeding of Jan van Cuyck Henricxz, Steward of my lord
van Pallant in Lower Betuwe, that it is well known to her
that while her aforesaid late husband was dying there
came to him at the house at Lede the priest of Kesteren,
Mr. Hubert van Truest, and, immediately after the holy
oil had been applied, besought him to make a perpetual
and hereditary grant to the church of Kesteren all such
willigen as the Church-wardens of the aforesaid church

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had until then with his consent gepoot on the North side
of the old Rhine; that the aforesaid her husband, raising
his head, thereupon answered the said priest as follows:
"Sir Priest, I cannot give that which does not belong to
me, but if you can obtain it from my lord van Pallant I
will be favorable thereto"; and the deponent heard her
husband speak these identical words (Protocol of Sher-
iff's notices and Certifications of Culemborch, 1540-49,
Inv. No. XXVIII, I, folio 218).

November 10, 1547. Hubertz, Man. Make known
that before us came Geryt van Culemborch Melchiorsz,
Sheriff (Sholtis) of the City of Culemborch and, in ac-
cordance with a request of the Honorable and pious
Jaspaer van Culemborch, Bailiff (Drost) at Lede, de-
clared and testified under the oath which he made in
assuming his office, that it is well known to him that
when his father Melchior van Culembroch became Bailiff
at Lede and had learned that the dam laid by a Count,
between the Schulenborger drained land and the Hers-
trate, where one rides from the Marschen to Lienden, in
the vicinity of the old Rhine, near Cornelis van Brakel,
had been dug up, over which dam the house van der
Lede and the Aldenweert have been accustomed to have
their mill-way to Lyenden, that the aforesaid Melchior,
deponent's late father, had the dam laid again and kept
it there and used it as long as he lived and that immedi-
ately after his death the dam was, by a certain Cornelis
Pelgromsz., residing at that time at the shuijlenborch,
again dug up, which, having come to the knowledge of
the aforesaid Sheriff and after he was continued in his
father's place in the office of Bailiff (Drostampt) of Lede
by the late Lord van Pellant, it was intended to seize
the aforesaid Cornelis Pelgromsz, and imprison him in
the house at Lede, and, having imprisoned him and after
finding of facts, to have him punished, but upon certain
advices the deponent as Bailiff (Drost) had him sum-
moned before judicial authorities of Lede and Ouden
Weert at the house of Huyge Beynhem and there took
bail for him and questioned him, at which time Cornelis

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van Brakel intervened for Cornells Pelgromzsoon and
showed this deponent a certain letter from the Bailiff
(Scholt) of Renen when he exercised jurisdiction In the
Marsche, In which he stated that he had knowledge of
this matter, that the dam In question was situated In the
Mars (Marsch) and therefore pertained to his jurisdic-
tion and not to that of the Drost at Lede; the deponent,
on the contrary, said that the dam belonged to the
Schuylenborch and not to the Marsche and also that
Cornells Pelgromsz. was resident In the high jurisdiction
of the Jonkheer and that the crime followed the person
and, therefore, belonged to his jurisdiction, so that after
long discussion and delay the question was not decided
and that before deponent left the office of Drost he had
urged and exhorted Wlllem van Hoemen, Drost after
him to advance the matter which, however, was not
done so that this deponent after the death of Wlllem
van Huemen, often called Joachim van Huemen, de-
clared that he would again build the dam and use the
mill-way according to old custom so that the Jonkheer,
in justice, might not be defrauded.
Without malice.

On record. Deed of Nov. lo, this first reported by
Jan van Cuyck, that the certification was in Betuwe
(Protocol of Sheriff's Notices and Certifications of Culem-
borch, 1540-49, Inv. No. XXVIII, i, folio 229).

It will be observed that Melchior died in the Interim of
Sept. 12, 1532, when he was appointed Bailiff (Drost)
and Castellan, and July 4, 1538, when his wife Beerte
was described as widow. He and his wife Berte van Wije
had issue (according to the pedigrees referred to) :

Gerard (who follows).

Wlllem.

Christoffel.

Huibert (who follows later).

Cornells.

A daughter who became a nun at St. Servaes Abbey
at Utrecht (Mss. ped. by A. Shoemaker).

A child who died unmarried {Buchelius).

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Gerrit van Culemborg, son of Melchior van
Culemborg and Bertha van Wije, was Justice of Culem-
borg in 1546 {OudhcMsden, 100-103). In the List of
Justices {OiidJicusden, Vol. II, 599) he is mentioned as
"Jonkheer Gerrit van Culenborg Melchiors, 1546." He
married twice, his first wife being Anna van Dichteren,
his second Wilhelma van Barvelt, as appears by the ref-
erences hereafter given. He died after 1574 and before
December 31, 1576, as his widow is mentioned in a deed
of the latter date (see hereafter).

The following references are from the Archives of the
Justices of Culemborg in the Archives of Arnhem.
Inventory IV. A, No. 4, Powers of Attorney. 1 567-1 580:
Appeared the Honorable Gerryt van Culenborch
Melchiorszoon and Juffrou Wilhelma van Barvelt his
wife, she having chosen her husband in this matter as
guardian and Junien Bernt van Berveltszoon, aged about
20 years, both of whom were constituted, etc. Act of
June 3, 1567.

Appeared the Honorable and pious Gerryt van Culen-
borch Melchiorszoon as Bailiff (Scholtis) at Schalckwijk
and constituted Aert Raw his solicitor in the Court of
Utrecht. Act of September 27, 1567.

The Sheriff, Burgomaster, Justices and Council of the
City of Culemborch certify that before them appeared
the most honored, worthy, honorable and pious Gerryt
van Culenborch Melchiorszoon as guardian of his chil-
dren by the late Anna van Dichteren, Andries van Dich-
teren, for himself and as substitute for Joost van Culen-
borch Gerrytszoon their attorney. Act of May 22, 1574.
Appeared the esteemed Geryt van Culemborch Mel-
chiorszoon and, by virtue of a certain power of attorney
executed before the Judges at Arnhem by Henrick Bent-
ing Sept. 25, 1575, substituted Jelis Ruys in place of Jan
Toosten. Act of Oct. 22, 1575.

Sept. 25, 1575, before Gheryt van Rysswick and
Andries Leydecker, appeared the esteemed Henrick Ben-
tinck. Bailiff (Drost) at Gorckum, and empowered the
esteemed Gheryt van Cuylenburch to act for him in all

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matters his excellency might have against the heirs of
the late Jan Thymens and all others at Culemborch
(Protocols of Sheriffs (Schepenen) of Arnhem, 1574 to
1579. folio 63, III).

Appeared Juffrouw Wilhelma, widow of Gerryt van
Culenborch Melchiorszoon, and Geraert van Culenborch
Geraertszoon, Provost of Culenborch, eldest son of the
aforesaid Gerryt van Culenborch, each with a guardian
appointed to them in this matter, who have constituted
Wynalt Rolofszoon, etc., to advance in their name such
debts of 48 guilders as they are in arrears to the late
Melchior van Culenborch Gerrytszoon their respective
step-son and brother. Act of December 31, 1576.

Appeared the honored and pious Gerryt van Culen-
borch, Provost at Culenborch, and Hendrick van der
Dorp, who have constituted the honored Hendrick
Benting, their brother-in-law, their attorney for them as
co-heirs of Gerryt van Culenborch Melchiorszoon, their
late blessed father. Act of February 19, 1577.

A similar letter of attorney dated March 4, 1577.

Wilhelma van Ben emit, widow of Gerryt van Culen-
borch Melchiorszoon, executed letter of attorney to 0th
van KerchofE at Tiel, July 12, 1578.

Vol. I, lA, No. 7. Justices Notices. 1584-1593.
(Culemborg Archives at Arnhem) :

Appeared Jonker Hendrick Bentynck, Bailiff at Culen-
borch, with Juffrow Margarieta van Culenborch his wife,
Jonker Hendrick van der Dorpe with Juffrouw Anna van
Culenborch his wife, each of said ladies having chosen
her husband as guardian in this matter, and Juffrouw
Sophia and Juffrouw Beertha van Culenborch, each also
with their chosen guardian in this matter, all of whom
waive objections and agree to settle all differences con-
cerning administration of their respective father and
father-in-law's estate in reference to the orchard, meadow,
etc., at Honswyck and of the house and fiefs at Culen-
borch where the aforesaid Bailiff Bentynck hath lately
resided. Signed by the aforesaid parties and their friends
at their request May 20, 1585. Deed of May 29, 1585.

56 VAN CULEMBORG

Gerrit van Culemborg, by his first wife Anna van
Dichteren, had issue:

Gerard, Provost at Culemborg.

Melchior (who follows).

Margaretha, married Hendrick Bentinck, Bailiff at

Culemborg.
Anna, married Hendrick van der Dorpe.

By his second marriage with Wilhelmina van Barvelt
he had issue :
Sophia.
Bertha.

Melchior van Culemborg, son of Gerrit van Culem-
borg and Anna van Dichteren, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Laurens van Bronkhorst and Margaret Mol,
of Dordrecht. When Philip II endeavored to introduce
the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands and erect
new bishoprics, the nobility formed an alliance to oppose
the same and a petition was drafted for presentation to
the Duchess of Parma, Ruler of the Netherlands. Among
the foremost of the nobles were Floris, Count van Culem-
borg, Lord van Brederode, and Lodewyk, Count of Nas-
sau. The nobles, about four hundred, met at the Count
of Nassau's residence and afterwards marched to Court,
led by Lord van Brederode, and presented the famous pe-
tition April 5, 1566. After the delivery of this petition
Floris, Count of Pallandt and Culemborg, returned to
Culemborg from Brussels and found the citizens in great
disorder; those of the Reformed doctrine insisted that
they should be permitted to preach openly in the Gasthuis
Church, those of the Roman faith united against this, and
the most prominent appeared at Court. Melchior van
Culemborg was spokesman and addressed the Count of
Culemborg as follows: "That the Godless attempt of
the heretics had reached their ears ; that they would never
suffer that any church would be opened for the further-
ance of that sacrilegious service and that, so far as they
could, they would oppose and resist the same with force
and arms." Those present assented with acclamation.

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The Count requested this protest to be submitted in
writing which Was done May 6, 1566, among the signers
being Melchior van Culemborg {Oudheusden, 215). He
was included in the decree of banishment with Albert
Huchtenbrouck, Josse de Bronkhorst and de Batten-
burch, Seignior or Lord of Hunneppel, Thiery de Haeften,
Estienne de Hertvelt dwelling inCleve.Wynot Augustyns-
son and Evert van Zanthem dwelling at Elsten, in which
decree he is mentioned as "Melchior de Cuelenbourch
Gerrtisson. ' ' He was charged with having been a member
of the League of Confederation of Nobles, having con-
federated and signed their pernicious and seditious pe-
tition, having been a chief of the foot-soldiers (during
the revolt) under the late Seignior van Brederode at
Vianen and elsewhere, having exercised hostilities and
made sale, with beat of drum, before the door of the
cloister near the City of Hoom, of many pieces of furni-
ture by his soldiers, which had been taken from the
cloisters, poor people and other subjects of his Majesty,
and having been before the City of Amsterdam with the
intention of surprising that city by a false alarm. This
decree was dated at Antwerp the last day of September,
1568 (Sentences and Citations by the Duke of Alva, 1567-
1572, from the manuscript by Jacob Mareus, Amster-
dam, Henry Vieroot, Bookseller, 1735, 128-130). Melchior
van Culenborch had died prior to Jan. 22, 1589, as at
that date his wife was mentioned as "Elizabeth van
Bronkhorst, widow of Melchior van Culenborch" (Diary
of Arend van Buchell, 192). (His marriage and the
names of his daughters and their marriages are mentioned
in Batavia Illustrata by van Leuwen, 894; see also
van der Aa's Biog. Die. for reference to Melchior van
Kuilenburg; also Mss. pedigree of A. Shoemaker and that
of Buchell, previously mentioned). Their children were:

Amelyn, married Dirck Vyg, Seignior of Est.

Anna, married first, Jan van Drongelen, second, Jan
van Naeldwyk.

Elizabeth, married Hugh Ruysch,

Melchiora, married Captain Wigmonde, an English-
man.

58 VAN CULEMBORG

HuiBERT VAN CuLEMBORG was the fourth son of
Melchior van Culemborg and Bertha van Wije. He
married Mary, daughter of Dierick van Yseren Geritsz.*
(ped. 95), and his wife Agnies. Mary van Yseren's first
husband was 0th Wessels.

Oct. 28, 1553, before Coninck Henricxz' Aken Goirdtz
and Baden, appeared our gracious Lady the Countess van
Hoogstraten, as Lady van Culemborg, etc., and appointed
Frederick die Coninck, BaiHff (Scholtus), in the matter
which she had to do on behalf of the manor against
Hilhgen Clevers' niece and Hubert van Culenborch
Melchiorsz concerning certain complaints made by
Hilligen to our Lady about the said Hubert van Culem-
borch on October 22nd last. Act of Oct. 29, 1553
(Protocol of powers of attorney of Culemborg, Dec. 14,
1546, to May 4, 1555, IV. A 2, folio 269).

Our gracious Lady aforesaid has empowered Jan
Ruysch to be her advocate and interpreter in the laws
concerning Hilligen Clevers and Hubert van Culem-
borch Melchiorsz during said power. Act of Oct. 29,
1553 (folio 270).

In the month of November, 1553, before Reusch
Henricxz appeared Hubert van Culemborch Melchiors-
zoon and appointed Jan Huygen and Simon Otten gen-
erally against our gracious Lady and Hillegont Clevers'
niece for winning or losing. Act of Nov. 6, 1553 (foHo
271.)

April 27, 1559, Hubert van Culenborch Melchiorsz.
was referred to as Judge (Richter), (See van Yseren,
ped. 95).

IV. A, No. 4, Letters of Attorney, 1 567-1 580, at Arn-
hem (Culemborg Archives) :

Appeared the Honorable Hendrick Bentnick, Bailiff at
Worcum (Woudrichem) who has constituted Huibert
van Culenborch Melchiorszoon, his uncle, Johan Batrens-

*Rietstap: van Iseren. Pays de Zutphen. D'azur d la
croix de Lorraine d'or, touchant les bords de Vecusson. Cimier,
un sautoir d'or; ou une aigle issuant d' argent, becque d'or; ou,
entre un vol d'or.

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zoon and Jan Hoy gen attorneys. Act of October 28,

1567-

Jan. 7, 1572, appeared Wouter Michielsz who married
Adrientken, daughter of Jan Babbarix, and constituted
Gerrit van Culemborch Melchiorsz, Hubert van Culem-
borch Melchiorsz and Johan Barten, etc. (IV, A 3, folio
69).

June II, 1572, appeared Jan de Rait and empowered
Gerry t van Culemborch Melchiorsz, Hubert van Culem-
borch Melchiorsz and Jan Huygen (folio 76).

Jan. 20, 1575, appeared Lord Goert Jansz, Priest, with
guardian and empowered Gerrit van Culemborch Mel-
chiorsz and Hubert van Culemborch Melchiorsz, Willem
Toosten, etc. (folio 105).

Similar letters of attorney by various persons were
issued to Hubert van Culenborch Melchiorszoon, Nov.

8, 1567, May 30, 1568, July 7, 1568, Mch. 12, 1569,
Mch. 17, 1571, July II, 1571, June 9, 1573, June 10,

1573, Oct. 25, 1573, Nov. 3, 1573, Nov. 25, 1573, Jan. 7,

1574, Mch. 29, 1574, Sept. 7, 1574, Nov. 24, 1574, Dec.

9, 1574, Jan. 12, 157s, Jan. 29, 1575, Feb. 9, 1575, Mch.
8, 1575, Mch. 13, 1575, Apl. 23, 1575 and May 14, 1575.

May 18, 1575, before Gobelss Janss appeared Mary,
widow of Cornelis Dircxz, and constituted Hubert van
Culenborch Melchiorsz contra Jan Claess as Surety for
Willem Gerritsen alias den Ruyter residing at Schalckwyck
(Protocol of Powers of Attorney of Culemborch, 1567-
1580, IV A 3, folio no).

June 30, 1575, before Gobelss Janss, appeared Maria
Cornelis Dirczs' widow with guardian and constituted
Jan Huygen in place of Hubert van Culemborch, deceased,
her late attorney, to prosecute her suit against Jan
Claess as Surety for Willem Gerrytsen alias den Ruyter
before this honorable Court (folio 112).

Hubert van Culemborg died, therefore, between May
18, 1575, and June 30, 1575.

He and his wife Mary van Yseren (ped. 95) had issue:
Melchior (who follows).
Mary.

60 VAN CULEMBORG

IMelchior van Culemborg, son of Hubert van Culem-
borg and Mary van Yseren or Iseren, was bom at Culem-
borg about 1555. His grandfather Melchior van Culem-
borg was appointed Stadtholder of Fiefs 1492, conse-
quently he seems to have been born about 1470 and to
have received that appointment when about twenty-two
years of age in consequence of the influence of his family.
As his son Hubert was fourth son and lived to 1575, and
was actively engaged until such date, it is quite probable
that he was not bom before 1510-1515 and, as he is referred
to as married in 1555, it is likely that his son Melchior
was not born before that date, although his sister Mary
may have been born earlier. Melchior is the only son
of Hubert that has been found. It has not been deter-
mined how long he remained at Culemborg but in 1596
he had been a resident at Weesel "for some time" as
appears by the following reference :

"We, Sheriff, Burgomasters, Judges and Council of the
City of Culenborch, make known and certify each and
all to the absolute truth of the statement, at the instance
and request of Marye van Culenborch Hubertsz that her
brother has been for some time a resident in the land of
Cleve at Weesel and that the said Melchior was bom
here at Culenborch in wedlock of his father and mother
and that she has never heard that during his residence
either here or elsewhere his conduct has been known to
be otherwise than honest and as befits a pious man, and
she requests therefore of everyone of whatever station
they may be, to receive the said Melchior as such and
that she holds her property in readiness to insure anyone
against any loss he may sustain on account of her brother.
In witness whereof we have confirmed the same with
our aforesaid City Seal in the year of our Lord 1596, on
the XXIV day of July, according to the old style."
(Archives of Judges (Schepenen) of Culemborg, Arnhem,
IV, A, No. 4, Powers of Attorney, 1 567-1 580).

The record of his marriage has not been found, con-
sequently, it has not been determined whether he married
at Weesel but he did not marry at Deventer, as a most

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thorough search at the latter place failed to find his
marriage recorded in that city. His wife, however, was
Anna Muls or Mulss, as appears in the baptismal records
of his children at Deventer. The Baptismal books of
the Protestants, Vol. I, 1591-1615, Civil Archives of
Deventer, contain the following references of the children*
baptized in the Reformed Church :

28 March, 1602. Father, Melchoir van Culemborch,
Mother, Anna Mulss, child, Sophia.

2 November, 1603. Father, Melchior van Culenborch,
Mother, Anna, child, Herman.

26 February, 1605. Father, Melchior van Culenborch,
Mother, Anna, child, Melchior. t

25 August, 1607. Father, Melchior van Culenborch,
Mother, Anna Muls, child, Sara.

12 September, 16 13. Father, Melchyor van Cuilen-
borch, Mother, Anna, child, Abram.

Sophia van Culemborg, daughter of Melchior van
Culemborg and his wife Anna Muls or Mulss, was born
November 6, 1601 (Mss. pedigree of the de Carpentier
Family in possession of Jonkheer Coenen van Graven-
sloot, of Driebergen, Holland, referred to in Genealogy
of the de Carpentier Family, by E. J. Sellers, Philadelphia,
1909, 22), and was baptized at Deventer, March 28,
1602, as previously stated. She married twice, as appears
from the following references contained in Vol. H, 1624-
1650, of Marriage Records, Civil Archives at Deventer:

"(Recorded) Jan. 15, 1625, in the presence of Burgo-
master Donckel and van Colck on behalf of the Clergy
and the Church Wardens. Married March 15, 1625,
Hans Coster, widower of the late Aeltjen van der Steghe,

* The baptism of a son, Hubert, was not found, but the
eldest child appears to have been of that name, as the marriage
is recorded at ZwoUe, October, 1620, of Hubert van Cuylen-
borch, bom at Deventer, to Anneken van Adessa, bom at Tulph.

t He appears to have lived at Zwolle, as the birth is recorded
there of Cornelia, daughter of Melchior van Cuylenborch and
Anna Wilms, bom at Zwolle, October 20, 1628.

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Sophia van Culenborch, daughter of Melchior van
Culenborch, both residing in the Groote Overstraat.
(Signed) Hans Koester, Bridegroom.

Safya van Kuelenborch, Bride."

As the word "both" refers to the contracting parties,
it is impossible to tell whether Melchior was living. He
is not mentioned in the next reference from the same
volume :

"(Recorded) 26 May, 1627, in the presence of Burgo-
master Verwer, the Ministers and Deputies.

Johan de Carpentier, widower of Maria Hellincx, at
Culenborch.

Sophia van Culenborch, widow of the late Hans
Coster, in the Groote Overstraat.

Bridegroom not present.

Safya van Keulenborch, Bride.

Married at Culenborch,"

The date of the marriage at Culemborg was June 27,
1627 (Mss. ped. of de Carpentier Family in possession
of Jonkheer van Gravensloot previously mentioned).

Johan de Carpentier* was son of Roeland de Car-
pentier, of Dordrecht, and Josina van Hecke, and was
born at Sandwich, England, June 8, 1577 (O. S.). Roe-
land de Carpentier was Pensionary of Ypres and Counsel-
lor to Prince William of Orange. Johan de Carpentier
married first, at Liege, April 9, 1598 (N. S.), Maria,
daughter of Servaes Hellincx and Catharina Crayers.
She was born Mch. 20, 1581, and died Oct. 26, 1626.
Oct. 19, 1 591, Johan de Carpentier went to Liege in
order to acquire a commercial training. After his mar-
riage he went to Aix-la-Chapelle, and from there to
Middleburg Sep. 28, 1599, and from there to Dordrecht
May 6, 1601. Nov. 21, 1609, he purchased a property
at Dordrecht from Anthonis Blonck (Legal Archives,
No. 751, folio I, Dordrecht). This property was con-

* Rietstap : de Carpentier, Hollande. Ecartele: i et 4 de
gueules a trois eperons d'or, la molette en bas {de Carpentier);
2 et 2 de sable a dix losanges d'or, accolees et aboutees, j, 3, 3, et
I {de Villers). Cimier, un lion issuant.

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veyed by Johan de Carpentier to Johannes Bocardus,
Minister, Oct. 25, 1625, and the same date he (Car-
pentier) also conveyed to Cornelis Willemsz. Wens a
garden and orchard in the Barony of Merwede (Legal
Archives, No. 765, folio 131). Johan de Carpentier
was an iron merchant at Dordrecht. He was educated
in mathematics at Liege under the teachers of the Bish-
opric of Liege. By his first marriage with Maria Hel-
lincx, Johan de Carpentier had eleven children, one of
whom was the Rev. Casparus de Carpentier, of Dord-
recht, and member of the Classis of Amsterdam.

The date of Johan de Carpentier's death has not been
ascertained.

At the time of his marriage to Sophia van Culemborg
he was living at Culemborg. By this second marriage
he had

Maria (who follows), born May 6, 1628.

Hubert, born June 25, 1629.

Anna, born July 9, 1631.

Melchior, born Jan. 19, 1633.
(The foregoing information of Johan de Carpentier is
from the Carpentier pedigree in possession of Jonkheer
van Gravensloot.)

Maria de Carpentier, born May 6, 1628, married
Jean Paul Jaquet,* son of Pierre Paul Jaquet, of Niiren-
berg, and Anna Maria, his wife. Jean Paul Jaquet had
been in the service of the Dutch West India Company
many years prior to sailing with his family to America
in the ship "de grote Christoffel" in November, 1654
{Documents relating to the Colonial History of New York,
Vol. Xn, 87); April 13, 1655, he was commissioned
Fire Warden of New Amsterdam {Reg. of New N ether -
land, by O'Callaghan) ; Nov. 29, 1655, commissioned
Vice- Director and Chief Magistrate on the South River
of New Netherland {Doc. relating to Col. His. of N. Y.,
Vol. xn, 113) and served until April 20, 1657 {Ibid.,

*Rietstap: Jaquet, Geneva. D'azur au chevron, accompagne
en chef de deux etoiles (5), enpointe d'un croissant, le tout d' argent.

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167-175); Mch. 26, 1669, he was confirmed by Governor
Francis Lovelace in possession of certain land he had
received during the Dutch administration (Dover, York
Records, 217); May 23, 1671, again confirmed in pos-
session of a lot in the Town of New Castle (Deeds,
Wilmington, Liber A, Vol. I, 17); Feb. 22, 1682, re-
ceived grant of land from Governor William Penn, and
a warrant for a resurvey Feb. 3, 1684 {Pa. Ar., 2nd
Sec, Vol. VII, 181); Sep. 23, 1676, commissioned a
justice of the Court of New Castle County, Delaware,
and recommissioned until his death in 1685; (Records
of the Court during his tenure have been printed in full
by the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, 1904); elected
Elder of Immanuel Church at New Castle Dec. 3, 1678
(records of Church). His wife is mentioned as Maria de
Carpentier in the baptismal record of their son Paul at
the Dutch Reformed Church, New Amsterdam, July
18, 1655 (Records of Church published in New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. V, 154). In
a letter of Joh. Megapolensis and Samuel Drisuis written
at New Amsterdam Aug. 5, 1657, to the Classis of
Amsterdam concerning the conditions of affairs in New
Netherland "Commandant at Fort Casimir named Jan
Pauluszen Jacquet" is referred to as the "brother-in-law
of Domine Casparus de Carpentier" {Doc. rel. to the Col.
His. of N. Y., Vol. Ill, 69-72). "Peter, Jan & Paul
Jacquet, 3 persons" were returned in the list of taxables
within the jurisdiction of the Court at New Castle,
November, 1677 (Court Records, Liber A, 197-201);
they were again mentioned March 25, 1678 {History of
Delaware, by J. Thomas Scharf, page 153); Jean Paul
Jacquet, Peter Jaquet and Jan Jaquet, Junior, took oath
of allegiance to the English Government February 22,
1683 {Scharf, page 612); February 18, i68f, "John
Jaquet and 2 sons" were mentioned in the list of taxa-
bles of New Castle County {Scharf, 396); Jean Paul
Jacquet died in the interim of this reference and that
of July 20, 1685, when "upon ye petition of ye sons
of Jean Paul Jaquet, deceased, that no other person

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might keep a ferry on their land but themselves, the
Court do inform the petitioners they have already
disposed of the said ferry according to law" (Court
Docket, Liber B, 379). For full account of Jean Paul
Jaquet and his descendants, Genealogy of the Jaquett
Family, Revised Edition, by Edwin Jaquet Sellers,
Philadelphia, 1907.

Jean Paul Jaquet and his wife Maria de Carpentier
had

Peter (who follows).
Jan (who follows).

Paul, whose baptism is recorded in the records of
the Dutch Reformed Church, New York City,
published in the New York Genealogical and
Biological Record, Vol. V, 154: "July 18, 1655.
Ouders, Jan Pauluszen Jaket, Maria Carpentier;
Kenders, Paulus, Getuygen, Jan de Jong,
Maria Hendricks." Paul Jaquet settled at Penn's
Neck, Salem County, New Jersey. In his will
dated July 24, 1701, probated Dec. 9, 1702, he
mentions his "brother John's sons, Peter and
Cornelius" (Salem Wills, Liber 3, 148).

Peter Jaquet was born, it is assumed, near the date
of his brother Paul's baptism, 1655, and married Inge-
borg, daughter of Dr. Tymen Stiddem (later Stidham)
who is mentioned in his will, dated Feb. i, 1686, pro-
bated April 24, 1686 (Wills at Wilmington, Liber A, 73;
Allied Families of Delaware, by Edwin Jaquett Sellers,
Philadelphia, 1901, see "Stidham Family"). Ingeborg
is also mentioned in the following epitaph: "In memory
of Ingeborg Stidham, daughter of Peter and Ingeborg
Jaquet, born Oct. 12, 1690; married Lucas Stidham
Oct. 26th, 1715; departed this life April 4, 1728 {Original
Settlements on the Delaware, by Benjamin Ferris, 187,
Holy Trinity, "Old Swedes' Church"). Aug. 18, 1697,
Hendrick and Jurien Jansen, heirs and survivors of
Jurien Jansen, conveyed land to Peter and Paul Jaquet,
heirs and survivors of John Jaquet, late of the County
of New Castle (Deeds at Wilmington, Liber K, Vol. I,

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314). As John Jaquet, Junior, was not included as a
grantee it is assumed he had died. July 4, 1699, Peter
Jaquet was one of the subscribers for building Holy
Trinity, "Old Swedes' Church," at Wilmington (Records
of Church, 45). He seems to have married a second
time as appears by the following baptismal reference at
"Old Swedes' Church" (Records, 187):

"Zacharias Didriksson and wife Hellena's child Zach-
arias, baptized 24th of January, 17 13; sponsors, Cor-
nelius Comelisson, from the other side of the river,
Johan Peter Mansson, Peter Jaquett's wife Mariah
and the late Johan van der Ver's daughter Judith."

Peter Jaquet was appointed Warden of Immanuel
Church at New Castle, 1715, and was also a member
of the vestry the same year (Church Records), which
is the last reference found of him. He and his wife
Ingeborg resided at Swanwick, which was near the
Town of New Castle. They had

Peter Jaquet, Junior, the date of whose birth can
only be approximated by reference to the date of his
sister Ingeborg's birth, Oct. 12, 1690 (epitaph previously
mentioned). Jan. 6, 1707, Nicholas Lockyer, of Swan-
wick, New Castle County, conveyed to Peter Jaquet,
Junior, of Swanwick, a tract of land called "Fernhook
or Fynnehook" (Deeds, Wilmington, Liber C, Vol. I,
87). His wife's Christian name was Ann, who after
Peter Jaquet's death, married a Dushane as appears by
her will dated Feb. 15, 174I, probated April 6, 1748
(Wills, Liber G, Vol. I, 106), in which she is styled as
Ann Deushane, of Swanhook, New Castle County,
spinster. She bequeathed her estate equally among her
sons John, Peter and youngest son Joseph Jaquet, and
her daughters Judith, Mary, Catherine, Susanna, and
her grandchild Ann Jaquet, daughter of her deceased
son Nicholas Jaquet. She appointed her son Peter
Jaquet sole executor. Witnesses, Nathaniel Silsbee and
Peter Stidham (the former having married testatrix's
daughter Judith).

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The record of the death of Peter Jaquet, Junior, has
not been found but it is assumed that it was shortly after
the date of his will, Jan. 3, 1726 (which does not seem to
have been recorded), referred to in a conveyance Dec. 14,
1748, by his son Joseph Jaquet, of New Castle Hundred
and County, to John Jaquet, of the same place, in which
it is mentioned that Peter Jaquet, late of Swan wick in said
County in his will dated January 3, 1726, bequeathed to
his aforesaid son Joseph Jaquet certain land purchased
of Colonel John French, which land, with other land, the
said Joseph Jaquet conveyed to John Jaquet aforesaid
(Deeds, Wilmington, Liher Q, Vol. I, 164).

Joseph Jaquet, son of Peter Jaquet, Junior, and
Ann his wife, was born prior to 1726; married April 17,
1750, at "Old Swedes' Church," Wilmington, by Rev.
Israel Acrelius, Susanna, daughter of Peter and Martha
Jaquet (Records of Church, 685). Aug. 19, 1756,
Joseph Jaquet, of the Town of New Castle, and Susanna
his wife, conveyed to Thomas Jaquet, of the Hundred
and County of New Castle, certain land (Deeds, Wil-
mington, Liher Y, Vol. I, 444). Nov. 15, 1757, Joseph
Jaquet, of same place, and Susanna his wife, conveyed
to William Bedford, of Philadelphia, certain land (Deeds,
Wilmington, Liher S, Vol. I, 503).

John Jaquet, Junior, son of Governor Jean Paul
Jaquet and his wife Maria de Carpentier, was born, it is
assumed, near the date of his brother Paul's baptism,
1655; married the daughter of Peter Teunis de Witt*
and Anneita his wife. March 14, 1684, John Jaquet,
the younger, proved the will of Peter Teunis de Witt, of
Swanwick near the Town of New Castle, dated Sep.
26, 1683, in which Anneita the wife is mentioned, but
the record of the probate says, "And whereas Annieta
the widow of the said Peter Teunis de Witt, in the

* Rietstap : de Witt, Dordrecht. De Sinople a un lievre courant,
poursuivi d'un levrier, tous deux en chef, et un chien braque
courant en pointe, levant la tete vers le lievre; le tout d' argent.
Cimier le lievre, issuant; entere un vol de Sinople et d'argent.

68 VAN CULEMBORG

aforementioned will expressed, is since hereof also de-
ceased and none of ye children as yet attained to age,
save one of the daughters married to the aforesaid John
Jaquet, the administration is therefore unto him granted"
(Wills 1683 to 1713, Wilmington, 8). March 30, 1685,
Artman Haym, of Swanwick, conveyed to John Jaquet,
Junior, a tract of land on the Pirt Hooke in said county
(Deeds, Wilmington, Liber A, Vol. I, 112). April 30,
1685, the bond of William Jute, of New Castle County,
was given to John Jaquet, of Swanwick, Administrator
of Peter de Witt (Deeds, Wilmington, Liber K, Vol. I,
III). John Jaquett, Junior, appears to have died prior
to Aug. 18, 1697, as he was not included as a grantee at
that date in the conveyance by the Jansen heirs to the
heirs of Jean Paul Jaquet (supra). He and his wife
. . . .de Witt had a son Peter who was mentioned with
his brother Cornelius as sons of "my brother John
Jaquet" in the will of the latter 's brother Paul
(supra). The Christian name of Peter Jaquet's wife
was Martha, as appears by the following:

"Baptisms 1720. Peter Jaquett and wife Marta's
child Maria, born March 12th, baptized March 19th."
("Old Swedes' Church" Records, 259.)

"Baptisms 1724. Peter Jaquett and wife Marta's
child Marta, born January 16, baptized May 10" (Ibid.,
286).

Peter Jaquet was a member of Immanuel Church at
New Castle, his pew being No. 14, June 10, 1728 (Re-
cords of Church, 108). Feb. 8, 1729, William Maslander,
late of New Castle County, and Alice his wife conveyed
to Peter Jaquet, of Swanwick, County aforesaid, a tract
of land on the South Side of Christiana Creek (Liber G,
Vol. I, 188). April I, 1730, Paul Jaquet, of New Castle
County, conveyed land to Peter and Anthony Jaquet,
of same county (Deeds, Wilmington, Liber I, Vol. I, 219).
Dec. 15, 1735, the same Paul conveyed land to the same
Peter Jaquet (Liber N, Vol. I, 107). Paul and Peter
were brothers. The record of Peter Jaquet's death has
not been found. Aug. 19, 1756, Joseph Jaquet, of the

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Town of New Castle, and Susanna his wife conveyed
land to Thomas Jaquet, of the Hundred and County
of New Castle, in which deed the conveyance by
Paul Jaquet to Peter and Anthony Jaquet is referred
to and it further recites that the said Peter be-
queathed his portion to his children Peter, Thomas,
Martha and Susanna who, with her husband the
said Joseph Jaquet, conveys her share {Liber Y, Vol.
I, 444).

Joseph Jaquet was commissioned as Third Lieutenant
April 6, 1776, First Battalion, Captain Lewis Farmer's
Company, Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, Colonel Samuel
Miles; promoted to Second Lieutenant May 28, 1776;
killed in battle on Long Island Aug. 27, 1776 {Pennsyl-
vania Archives, Second Series, Vol. X, 201). Aug. 21, 1778,
administration was granted on his estate to John Young
and John David Willpert (Philadelphia probates. Liber
I, 10) . After his death his widow married Hance Jaquett,
Oct. 28, 1783. The record of her death has not been
found. Her will was dated Nov. 5, 1799, in which she
mentioned her son Thomas Jaquett, her grandson
Joseph Jaquett and her granddaughter Rachel Jacquett;
she appointed Dr. Joseph Pfeiffer, of the Northern Liber-
ties, Philadelphia, and his daughter Elizabeth Loughead
of the same place, widow, executors (Philadelphia pro-
bates, Liber 17, 182).

Lieutenant Joseph Jaquet and his wife Susanna Jaquet
had

Thomas (who follows).

Rachel, who married Joseph Wilde, April 29, 1778,
at the "Old Swedes' Church," Wilmington, the
Rev. Lawrence Girelius performing the ceremony
(Records of Church, 749).

Thomas Jaquett, of Philadelphia, was born 1761;
married November 11, 1791, Mary, daughter of Doctor
Francis Joseph Pfeiffer, of Philadelphia, and his wife
Ann Margaret Becker, at the Second Presbyterian
Church, Philadelphia (Records of Church, also Marriages
in Pennsylvania prior to 1800, 575; Genealogy of Dr.

70 VAN CULEMBORG

Francis Joseph Pjeifer and his descendants, by Edwin
Jaquett Sellers, Philadelphia, 1899). Thomas Jaquett
was a merchant. He died July 7, 1828 (Record of 2nd
Pres. Ch.)- His wife was born July 22, 1764, and bap-
tized May 14, 1794 (Ibid.); died March 16, 1796, and
was buried in her father's private burial ground, but her
remains were removed January 23, 1851. to South
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. After the death of
his first wife, Thomas Jaquett married, May 15, 1799
(Records of 2nd Pres. Ch. ; Marriages in Penna., 575),
Temperance, widow of Dr. Samuel Kennedy and daughter
of Job and Phebe Smith, of Alloways Creek, Salem
County, New Jersey. She was born 1767; married Dr.
Samuel Kennedy, September 22, 1791 (Pennsylvania
Archives, Second Series, Vol. IX, 577). Dr. Kennedy
died at Charleston, South Carolina. She died February
25, 1824 (2nd Pres. Ch. Rec.) and was buried in the
Second Presbyterian Churchyard, Philadelphia.

Thomas Jaquett by his first wife Mary Pfeiffer had
issue :

Joseph (who follows) .

Rachel, born at Philadelphia, September i, 1792;
baptized October 25, 1792 (2nd Pres. Ch. Rec);
married February 13, 181 7, Rev. William Bryant.
He was born June 19, 1780; rector of the Church
of the Epiphany, Philadelphia; died December 12,
1841; she died November 2, 1856. Both were
buried at the Church of the Epiphany, but their
remains were subsequently removed to Ivy Hill
Cemetery, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. (For de-
scendants, see Jaquett Genealogy.)

Rev. Joseph Jaquett was bom at Philadelphia,
March 11, 1794; baptized May 14, 1794 (2nd Pres. Ch.
Rec), married at St. Peter's Prot. Epis. Ch., Philadel-
phia, by Bishop William White, December 3, 1829,
Elizabeth, daughter of Fen wick (called Finnix) Stretcher
(see Allied Families, supra) and his wife Elizabeth,
daughter of Peter Jaudon and his wife Ann McCue

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(see Jaudon Genealogy, Philadelphia, 1890, by Edwin
Jaquett Sellers). He was ordained as a deacon of the
Prot. Epis. Church by Bishop William White, November
16, 182 1, and as a priest December 22, 1822, He was
rector of St. James the Greater at Bristol, Pennsylvania,
and later of St. Matthew's at Francisville, Philadelphia.
He revised the first American edition of the Hebrew
Bible, published in 1849, in the preface of which his
scholastic attainment is referred to. The title of the
work is as follows :

BIBLIA HEBRAICA

SECUNDUM EDITIONES

JOS. ATHIAE, JOANNIS LEUSDEN,
JO. SIMONIS ALIORUMQUE,

INPRIMIS

EVERARDI VAN DER HOOGHT,

D. HENRICI OPITII, ET WOLFII HEIDENHEIM,

CUM ADDITIONIBUS

CLAIRQUE MASORETICA ET RABBINICA

AUGUSTI HAHN

NUNC DENUO RECOGNITA ET EMENDATA AB

ISAAC LEESER, V. D. M.

ET JOSEPHO JAQUETT, V. D. M.,

presbyter prot. epis. ecclesiae, u. s.

editio stereotypa.

philadelphiae:

sumptibus joannis w. moore.

novi eboraci: joannis wiley.

typis johnson et soc. philadelphiae.

1849.

Rev. Joseph Jaquett was distinguished for his knowl-
edge of Oriental languages. (For a full account of him
see Jaquett Genealogy.) He died May 24, 1869, and
was buried May 26, 1869, in the Stretcher vault at St.
Peter's Prot. Epis. Church, Philadelphia. His wife was
born at Philadelphia, December 27, 1802; baptized at
St. Peter's, May 24, 1805; died May 25, 1882, and was

72 VAN CULEMBORG

buried in the same vault with her husband. They had
issue :

Finnix Stretcher, M.D., born September 12, 1831; of
the class of 1849, University of Pennsylvania;
graduate of the Medical College of Pennsylvania,
March 4, 1854; surgeon in the Sixty-fifth Penn-
sylvania Regiment, Fifth Cavalry, being mustered
into service December 22, 1861; resigned Febru-
ary 24, 1862 {History of Pennsylvania Volunteers,
by Bates, Vol. II, 577); died December 11, 1870:
buried in Stretcher vault, St. Peter's, Philadelphia,
December 13, 1870.

Anna Frances (who follows).

Joseph Pfeiffer, born at Philadelphia, 1841; baptized
at St. Peter's, July 9, 1841; died November 24,
1852; buried in Stretcher vault, November 26,
1852.

Anna Frances Jaquett was bom at Philadelphia,
Jan. 23, 1838; married at St. Peter's, July 22, 1858,
David Wampole Sellers, son of Samuel Sellers and his
w^ife Barbara Ann Wampole (see Partial Genealogy of the
Sellers and Wampole Families of Pennsylvania, by Edwin
Jaquett Sellers, Philadelphia, 1903), the Rev. Dr. William
H. Odenheimer, subsequently Bishop of Pennsylvania,
performing the ceremony. David Wampole Sellers was
born at Philadelphia, May 11, 1833; admitted to the
Philadelphia Bar May 11, 1854; died Dec. 24, 1901, and
was buried in the Stretcher vault at St. Peter's. In
1857 T. and J. W. Johnson & Co., of Philadelphia, pub-
Ushed "A Practical Treatise on the Law of Carriers of
Goods and Passengers by Land, Inland Navigation and
in Ships. With an Appendix of Statutes and Forms of
Pleadings. ByTomson Chitty, Esq., and Ledfric Temple,
Esq., Barristers-at-Law. With notes and References to
the American decisions by David W. Sellers." May 13,
1858, he was appointed Assistant City Solicitor of
Philadelphia, which office he held until January i, 1866;
Aug. 3, 1 86 1, commissioned by Governor Andrew G.

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Curtin as Judge Advocate, with rank of Major,
having been appointed by Brigadier-General Augustus
James Pleasanton, commanding the Home Guard,
to serve until the second Monday of October,
1861; in 1865 he became Counsel for the Union
Passenger Railway Company, the Chestnut and Wal-
nut Passenger Railway Company and the Continental
Railway Company and continued to represent them
after their consolidation as the Union Traction Com-
pany; May 8, 1876, appointed by the Board of
Judges a Commissioner of Fairmount Park; and Dec.
8, 1899, was elected President of the Commission;
Dec. 24, 1879, appointed Solicitor of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company, which position he held
until his death; Dec. 15, 1881, appointed Solicitor
of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail-
road Company and of the Philadelphia and Baltimore
Central Railroad Company, which positions he also
held until his death; Aug. 26, 1885, commissioned by
Governor Robert E. Pattison as an aide-de-camp on
his staff, with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and served
throughout his administration; Feb. 16, 1887, elected
Vice-Provost of the Law Academy of Philadelphia;
May 28, 1887, appointed General Counsel at Philadel-
phia of the American Surety Company; Jan. 14, 1892,
elected one of the Managers of the Zoological So-
ciety; Jan. 3, 1895, elected Chairman of the Conven-
tion to revise the rules of the Democratic Party of
Philadelphia; President several years of the Young
Men's Democratic Association of Philadelphia; Dec. 5,
1899, elected Vice-Chancellor of the Law Association
of Philadelphia (for fuller account see Sellers Genealogy,
supra) .

David Wampole Sellers and his wife Ann Frances
Jaquett had issue :

Anna Frances, born at Philadelphia, Aug. 16, 1859;
married at the residence of her father April 21,
1892, by the Rev. Samuel Gregory Lyons, Rector
of the Church of the Beloved Disciple, New York,

74 VAN CULEMBORG

N. Y., Edward Page Vogels. He was born at
Philadelphia April 2, 1855. They had

Eleanor Stockton, born at Atlantic City, New

Jersey, Sep. 19, 1896.
David Sellers, born at Atlantic City, June 20,
1900.
Elizabeth Louisa, born at Philadelphia Mch. 21,
1861 ; married at the residence of her mother Oct.
28, 1903, by the Rev. Richard H. Nelson, D.D.,
Rector of St. Peter's Prot. Epis. Church, Phila-
delphia, Peter Marshall. He was born at Brun-
nerton. New Zealand, July 8, 1869. They reside at
Shanghai, China.
Mary, bom at Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1862; married
at St. Peter's, Philadelphia, June 3, 1895, by the
Rev. J. Lewis Parks, D.D., George Howard Stir-
ling, of Baltimore County, Maryland. He was
born April 25, i860. They reside at Baltimore.
They had

David Sellers, born Aug. 16, 1896.
Philip Sellers, born June i, 1898.
Francis Elder, bom Jan. 21, 1901.
Florence, born at Philadelphia, April 22, 1864; mar-
ried June 2, 1885, at St. Peter's, Philadelphia, by
the Rev. Thomas F. Davies, D.D., Marcellus Coxe,
of Philadelphia. He was born at Philadelphia
Nov. 7, 1857. They had

Francis Travis, born at Philadelphia, Mch. 13,

1889; entered the diplomatic service of the

United States as Second Secretary of the

American Legation at Havana, Cuba, and

later appointed Secretary of the Legation at

Honduras, Central America; married, at

Havana, Aug. 14, 19 14, Mercedes, daughter

of Thomas B. de Maderos of that place.

Edwin Jaquett, born at Philadelphia, July 25, 1865;

graduate of the University of Pennsylvania June

15, 1886, with degree of A.B. ; June 5, 1889, degrees

of A.M. and LL.B.; admitted to the Philadelphia

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Bar June 15, 1889; assisted in the compilation of
Vol. II. of the Salutes at Large of Pennsylvania,
from 1681-1801, published in 1896, in the preface
of which he is referred to; appointed Jan. i, 1902,
one of the Solicitors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company; married June 6, 1894, at St. Peter's,
Philadelphia, by the Rev. J. Lewis Parks, D.D.,
Blanche Bingham, daughter of Michael Ehret,
of Philadelphia, and his wife Ellen Cathcart.
She was born at Philadelphia Oct. 15, 1871.
They had

Ellen Jaquett, bom at Philadelphia, Mch. 6,
1895; married at St. Peter's Prot. Epis.
Church, Philadelphia, April 26, 191 5, by
the Rev. Dr. Edward M. Jefferys, Richard
Coxe, son of George McCall, of Philadel-
phia, and Mildred Carter, his wife. He was
bom at Philadelphia, Feb. 12, 1888.
Charles Jaquett, born at Philadelphia Mch. 21, 1867 ;
died Feb. 9, 1868; buried in Stretcher vault at St.
Peter's, Philadelphia.
Sydney Jaquett, born at Philadelphia Nov. 29, 1868;
died at Atlantic City, New Jersey, Aug. 21, 1887;
buried Aug. 24, 1887, in Stretcher vault at St.
Peter's, Philadelphia.
Agnes, born at Philadelphia July 21, 1873; married
at the residence of her brother, Edwin Jaquett
Sellers, Philadelphia, Nov. 26, 1904, by the Rev.
W. W. Groton, D.D., Assistant Rector of St.
Peter's, Philadelphia, Clinton Millingar Bidwell,
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She died at Phila-
delphia May 19, 1906, and was buried May 21,
1906, in the Stretcher vault at St. Peter's, Phila-
delphia. He was born May 24, 1858 (see Bid-
well Genealogy in American Ancestry, by Joel
Munsell's Sons, Albany, New York, Vol. IX, 6).
They had

Clinton Millingar, born at Philadelphia, Mch.
30, 1906.

76 VAN CULEMBORG

Baldwin I, or Baldericus, Count of Cleve,* who died
822 (ped. i) ; married Hildegardis, daughter of Louis,
Count of Aquitane, and had

EvERHARD, who succeeded his brother Lodewyk as
Count of Cleve in 827; died 835; married Bertha,
daughter of Lodewyk, Duke of Bavaria, and had

St. Luitardus, Count of Cleve, who died 881 ; married
Bertha, daughter of the Emperor Arnold (ped. 3), and had

Baldwin II, or Baldericus, Count of Cleve, who died
917 ; married Mechteld, daughter of the Duke of Saxony,
and had

Arnold, Count of Cleve, who died 962; married
Cunigund, daughter of the Landgrave of Duringen, and
had

A daughter, who married Theodoric, Count of Teister-
bant and Hoey (ped. 2).

3

Charlemagne, Emperor of the West,t who died 814,
married Hildegardis, daughter of Childebrant, Duke of
Swabia, and had

Louis, le Debonnaire, Emperor and King of France,
who died 840; married Hermengarde, daughter of In-
gram, Count of Hasbania in Saxony, and had

Louis, Germanicus, King of Germany, who died 876;
married Emma, of Spain, and had

Carloman, King of Bavaria, who became Emperor
879; died 880; by Litvinde had

Arnold, Duke of Carinthia, King of Bavaria and
Emperor, who died 899; married Ode, daughter of
Theodon, Count of Bavaria, and had

* Anderson, 347; Betham, 562; Slichtenhorst's His. of
Gelderland, 1654, 470.

\UArt. XVI, 95; Anderson, 216; Betham, 402.

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Berthe, who married St. Luitardus, Count of Cleve
(ped. 2).

4

Gerulfe, or Geolof,* to whom in 839 the Emperor
Louis le Debonnaire granted lands in Westergo, had

Gerulfe, or Genulfe, Count of Friesland, who in
889 received lands from Emperor Arnold in Friesland;
married Magteld, sister of Hugano, Count of Zanten
{Oudheusden, 2-4). She married second, Siegebert, Duke
of Guyenne. Magteld and Gerulfe had

Waltgaire, or Walgere, who became Count of Teis-
terbant in right of his wife, the Countess of Teisterbant
and Hoey (ped. i). Magteld and Siegebert had

Theodoric I, Count of Holland and Zeeland and Lord
of Friesland, living 922, was son of Siegebert, Duke of
Guyenne, and Magteld, widow of Gerulfe, Count of
Friesland; married Geva or Gerberga, daughter of Pepin,
Count of Senlis and Valois, brother of Herbert I, Count
de Vermandois (ped. 5). They had

Theodoric H, Count of Holland and Zeeland and Lord
of Friesland, who died 988; married Hildegarde, daughter
of Vicinan le Vieux, brother of Herman Billung, Duke of
Saxony (ped. 6). Vicinan's wife was Mathilda, daughter
of Arnold, Count of Alost. They had

Arnold, le Grand, Count of Holland and Zeeland and
Lord of Friesland, who died 1003 or 4; married Luit-
garde, daughter of Sigefroi, first Count of Luxemburg
(ped. 7), and had

Gertrude, who married Ludolph, Margrave of Sax-
ony, Count of Brunswick (ped. 17).
Simon (who follows) .

Simon or Siward, first Lord van Teylingen, who mar-
ried the daughter of Jan, Lord van Althena, and had

*L'Art. XIV, 410; Anderso7t, 351; Betham, 566; Balen's
History oj Dordrecht, 1677, 1251; Slichtenhorst's His. oj Gel-
derland, 1654, 60.

78 VAN CULEMBORG

A daughter, who married Henry, Lord van Bosichem
and van Culemborg (ped. i).

Charlemagne, Emperor,* who died 814, married
Hildegarde, daughter of Childebrand, Duke of Swabia,
and had

Charlemagne, Emperor, who died 814, married Hilde-
garde, daughter of Childebrand, Duke of Swabia, and had

Pepin, King of Italy, who died 810; married Berthe,
daughter of WiUiam, Count of Tholouse, and had

Bernard, King of Italy, who died 818; by Cuneconde
had

Pepin, who was deprived of Italy by Emperor Louis
le Dehonnaire and received a part of Vermandois and the
Seigneuries of St. Quentin and Peronne (the title of Count
de Vermandois having been attributed to him without
authority); living 834; had

Pepin, Count of Senlis and Valois, living 893 ; had

Geva or Gerberga, who married Theodoric I, Count
of Holland (ped. 4).

BiLLUNG, Seigneur of Stubenskomf in the land of
Luneburg, had

ViciNAN, le Vieux, brother of Herman Billung, Duke
of Saxony, who married Mathilda, daughter of Arnold,
Count d'Alost, and had

Hildegarde, who married Theodoric II, Count of
Holland (ped. 4).

*L'Art. V, 439, 454; XII, 177; XIV, 410; Anderson, 216.
^L'Art. XVI, 147; Anderson, 241; Betham, 427, 429.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 79

7

WiLDERic, or WiGERic, a Count in Ardennes,* had

SiGEFROi, first Count of Luxembourg, who died 998;
married Hedwig and had

LuiTGARDE, who married Arnold, Count of Holland
(ped. 4).

GoswiN I, Siegneur de Henisberg and de Fauquemont,t
descended from the Seigneurs de Wassenberg, originally
of Flanders, died towards the beginning of the twelfth
century; married Ode, daughter of Sigefroi, Count de
Walbeck, and had

Gerard, Seigneur de Henisberg, who married Ermen-
garde, daughter of Theodoric, Count de Plocek, (ped.
9) , and Mathilde, widow of Udon H, Margrave de Stade,
who died 1106, and had

Aleid, who married Roelof, seventh Lord van Bo-
sichem (ped. i).

AziBO, last Lord of Ascania and Ballenstadt, f died 787;
married Hasale, sister of Witekind the Great, Duke of
Saxony (ped. 13), and had

Beringerus, Count of Ascania, who died 797; mar-
ried Hadmunda, daughter of Henry I, Count of Henne-
berg, and had

Albert, Count of Ascania, who died 820; married
Richarda, daughter of Poppo I, Count of Henneberg,
son of Henry I aforesaid (Betham, 532), and had

Poppo, Count of Ascania, who died 830; married Cune-
winde, of the Carolinian blood, and had

*UArt. XIV, 132.

^L'Art. XIV, 329; XVI, 244, 390.

X Betham, 450, 523.

80 VAN CULEMBORG

Albert II, Count of Ascania, who died 862; married
Cunegilda, Countess of Wettin (ped. 10), and had

Otto II, Count of Ascania, who died 882; married
Irmengardis, a Countess of Holstein, and had

Albert III, Count of Ascania, who died 899; married
Luitgarda, Countess of Rengelheim, and had

Magdalene, who married Sigfridus, Count of Rin-
gelheim and Oldenburg, first Margrave of Bran-
denburg (ped, 11).
Sigfrid (who follows).

SiGFRiD, Count of Ascania, who died 953; married
Countess of Reveningen, daughter of Otto, Count of
Reveningen {Betham, 435), and had

Albert IV, Count of Ascania, who married Dilburg,
daughter of Sigfrid, Count of Oldenburg (ped. 11), and had

Waldemar, Senior, Count of Ascania, who married
Catherine of Schwartzburg, and had

SiGiSMUND, Count of Ascania, who married Anne,
heiress of Soltwedel and Wolpe, daughter of Albert VI,
Margrave of Soltwedel and Old Mark (ped. 12), and had

Ernest, Margrave of Soltwedel and Count of Ascania,
who married Hildegardis, daughter of Henry III, Mar-
grave of Stade (ped. 16), and had

Esicus VI, Margrave of Soltwedel, who married Mech-
teld, daughter of Egbert, Margrave of Saxony (ped. 17),
and had

Otto VIII, Dives, Margrave of Soltwedel and Branden-
burg, who died 11 23; married EHcke, Heiress of Saxony
and daughter of Magnus, last Duke of Saxony of the
race of Billung (ped. 20), and had

Theodoric, Count of Plocek, who married Mathilde,
widow of Udon II, Margrave de Stade, and had

Ermengardis, who married, first. Otto II, Count of
Stade and Ditmarsh; second, Gerard, Seigneur de
Heinsberg (ped. 8).

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10

WiTEKiND, the Great, Duke of Saxony,* died 807 (ped.
13) ; married Svatana of Bohemia and had

WiTEKiND II, Count of Wettin, near Halla, who died
825; married JuHana, or Yolantha, daughter of Theo-
doric, Count of Rochlitz, and had

DiETGREMUs, Count of Wettin and Burgrave of
Zorbig, who married Bossena, Countess of Pleissen, and
had

CuNiCHiLDA, or Cunigunda, who married Albert II,
Count of Ascania, who died 862 (ped. 9.)

11

WiTEKiND, the Great, Duke of Saxony, f died 807 (ped.
13); married Svatana of Bohemia and had

WiGBERT, Duke of Saxony, who died 825; married
Scindacilla, daughter of Ratbodus, King of Friesland,
and had

Walbert, Count of Ringelheim, first Count of Olden-
burg, who died 856; married Altburgis, daughter and
heiress of Lesmona, and had

Theodoric, Count of Ringelheim and Oldenburg,
who died 920; married Ludomilla, Countess of Rochlitz,
or Hedwig, Countess of Cleve, and had

SiGFRiDus, Count of Ringelheim and Oldenburg, first
Margrave of Brandenburg, who died 940 or 946 ; married
Magdalene, daughter of Albert III, Count of Ascania
(ped. 9), and had

DiLBURG, or Dietburgie, who married Albert IV,
Count of Ascania (ped. 9).

*Betham, 401, 435.

\ Anderson, 197; Betham, 385, 428.

82 VAN CULEMBORG

12

Albert IV, Count of Ascania* (ped. 9), married Dil-
burg, or Dietburgie (ped. 11), and had

Albert V, Count of Ascania, who married Hilda,
heiress of Wolpe. and had

Albert VI, Margrave of Soltwedel and Old Mark in
Brandenburg, who married Tetburga, daughter of Dedo
Count of Wettin (ped. 13), and had

Anne, heiress of Soltwedel and Wolpe, who married
Sigismund, Count of Ascania (ped. 9).

13

Wernicke, King of Saxony,t died 768; married
Gunilda, of the Isle of Rugen, and had

Witekind I, the Great, King of Saxony and first Duke
of the Saxons; conquered by Charlemagne, who allowed
him to use the title of Duke of Engern and Westphalia;
died 807; married Svatana of Bohemia, and had

Witekind II, Count of Wettin, who died 825; married
JuHana, or Yolantha, daughter of Theodoric, Count of
Rochlitz, and had

DiETGREMus, Count of Wettin and Burgrave of Zorbig,
who married Bossena, Countess of Pleissen, and had

DiTMARUS I, Count of Wettin and Burgrave of Zor-
big, who died 933; married Willa, daughter of Otto,
Count of Reveningen, and had

DiETRicus, or Theodoric, Count of Wettin, who
married Judith, daughter of Bion, Count of Merseberg
(ped. 14), and had

Dedo II, Count of Wettin, who died 1019; married
Tetburga, daughter of Theodoric, Margrave of Bran-
denburg (ped. 15), and had

*Anderson, 257; Betham, 523.

^Anderson, 215, 239, 245; Betham, 401, 435.

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Tetburga, who married Albert VI, Margrave of Solt-
wedel and old Mark in Brandenburg (ped. 12).

14

DiETGREMUS, Count of Wettin and Burgrave of Zor-
big* (ped. 13), married Bossena, Countess of Pleissen,
and had

Frederic, Count of Wettin, who died 876, and had

Frederick I, who was created Margrave of Misnia
928; had

Gunther, Count of Wettin, who had

BiON, Count of Merseburg, who had

Judith, who married Dietricus, or Theodoric, Count
of Wettin (ped. 13).

15

Frederic, Count of Wettin,t died 876 (ped. 14); had

Bruno, Count of Wettin, who died 925; married
Oda, daughter of Philip, Count of Reveningen who was
slain in battle 933, son of Otto, Count of Reveningen;
they had

Bruno, who was created Margrave of Brandenburg
in 965; had

Sighard, Margrave of Brandenburg, who had

Theodoric, Margrave of Brandenburg, who died 1020,
and had

Tetburga, who married Dedo II, Count of Wettin,
(ped. 13).

* Anderson, 245; Betham, 435.

■\ Anderson, 255; Betham, 435, 448.

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LuDERUS, or LoTHARY I, Count of Ditmarsh,* who
died 931, had

Henry I, Calvus, or the Bald, first Margrave of Stade
in the year 940, who had

Henry H, Bonus, or the Liberal, Margrave of Stade
and Ditmarsh, who had

Henry HI, Margrave of Stade, who died ioi6, and
had

Hildegardis, who married Ernest, Margrave of Solt-
wedel and Count of Ascania (ped. 9).

17

Witekind, the Great, last King of the Saxons and Duke
of Saxony, t died 807 (ped. 13); married Geva, daughter
of Gormo, or Goterie, King of Denmark, and had

WiGBERT, Duke of Saxony in Engern and Westphalia,
who died 825; married Scindacilla, daughter of Rat-
bodus. King of Friesland, and had

Bruno, Duke of Saxony, who died 843 ; married Svana,
Countess of Montfort, and had

LuDOLPH, the Grand, Duke of Saxony, who died 864
{L'Art. XVI, 145); married Hatwige, daughter of Eber-
hard, Duke of Frioul, Count and Marquis of Trevise,
and Gisela, daughter of Louis le Debonnaire and Judith.
Eberhard was son of Henrok, or Henri I, Duke of Frioul.
They had

Otto, the Great, Grand Duke of Saxony, who died 912
{Ibid. 146); married, first, Hedwige, daughter of Em-
peror Lewis Germanicus; second, Ludolph, or Leutgarde,
daughter of the Emperor Arnulph, and Ode, daughter

* Anderson, 256; Betham, 449.
\Betham, 403, 428.

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of Theodon, Count of Bavaria {UArt. xvi, loo). By his
first marriage he had

Henry (who follows) .
By his second marriage he had

Barbe, who married Henry, Count of Franconia
(ped. 49).

Henry Auceps, Emperor and Duke of Saxony, who
died 936; married Mathildis, daughter of Dietricus,
Count of Ringelheim, great-grandson of Witekind
{Betham, 403; UArt. vii, 299), and had

Henry, Duke of Bavaria, who died 955 (Betham,
459; UArt. XVI, 106); married Judith, daughter of
Amolph, Malus, Duke of Bavaria (ped. 18) {UArt.
XVI, 103), and had

Bruno, Margrave of Saxony, who died 972 {UArt.
XVI, 206) ; married Hildeswinde of Crotia, and had

Bruno H, Margrave of Saxony, Seigneur of Bruns-
wick, who died 1006 {Ibid.); married Gisela, daughter of
Herman H, Duke of Swabia (ped. 19) {UArt. xiii, 470);
Betham, 403), and had

LuDOLPH, Margrave of Saxony, Count of Brunswick,
who died 1038 {Ibid.); married Gertrude, daughter of
Arnold of Gand, Count of Holland (ped. 4), and had

Egbert, Margrave of Saxony, Count of Brunswick
and Marquis of Misnia, who died 1068 {Ibid., 199, 208);
married Hermengarde, widow of Otto, Duke of Schwein-
furt and daughter of Maginfroi, Count of Suze, and
Berthe, daughter of Ardouin, King of Italy, and had

Mechtild, who married Esicus VI, Margrave of Solt-
wedel (ped. 9).

18

Leutpold, Marquis and Duke of Bavaria,* died 907;
married Hildegarde, daughter of Louis 11, le Germanique,
and Emma of Spain {Betham, 402) ; and had

*UArt. XVI, loi; Betham, 459.

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Arnolph, Mains, Duke of Bavaria, who died 937;
married Agnes, sister of Geysa I, King of Hungary and
daughter of Taxus, King of Hungary, and had

Judith, who married Henry, Duke of Bavaria (ped. 17).

19

Charlemagne, Emperor* (ped. 3), married Hilde-
garde, daughter of Childebrandt, Duke of Swabia, and
had

Louis, le Debonnaire, King of France (ped. 3), who
married Hermengarde, daughter of Ingram, Count of
Hasbania in Saxony, and had

Alpaide, or Alpaid {L'Art. v, 464), who married Biggo,
or Begon, Count of Paris, and had

Eberhardus, a Count, who had

Do, or Udo, a Count, who died 859, and had

Gebhard, of Franconia, who died 910 and married
Oda, daughter of Odo, Count of Aquitain, and had

Odd, or Utho, Duke of Franconia, who died 949 {UArt.
XIII, 470), who had

Herman H, Duke of Alsace and Swabia, who died 1004;
married Gerberga, daughter of Conrad, King of Burgundy,
and Mathilde, daughter of Louis IV, King of France
(Betham. 571; L'Art. x, 386), and had

GiSELE, who died 1043; married Bruno II, Margrave
of Saxony and Count of Brunswick (ped. 17).

20

BiLLUNG, Seigneur of Stubenskornf of the land of
Luneburg, had

*Betham, 402, 404.

\ L'Art. XVI, 147, 148; Anderson, 241; Betham, 427, 429.

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Hermanus Billung, created Duke of Saxony, who
died 973; married Hildegarde of Westerburg, and
had

Swanechilde, married, first, Ditmar, Marquis of
Lusace; second, Eckard I, Margrave of Misnia
(ped. 57);
Mechtild, or Mathilde, who married, first, Bald-
win III, Junior, Count of Flanders and Artois
(ped. 24) ; second, Godefroi, Count de Verdun
(ped. 32).
Beno, or Bernhard (who follows).

Bend, or Bernhard I, Duke of Saxony, who died loio;
married Geyla, daughter of Wratislaus, Prince of Pome-
rania, who had

Bernhard II, Duke of Saxony, who died 1062; mar-
ried, first, Bertrade, daughter of Harold VI, King of
Norway; second, Eilike, daughter of Henri, Marquis de
Schweinfurt. By his first marriage he had

Gertrudis, who married, first, Florence I, Count of
Holland (ped. 54) ; second, Robert I, the Frisian,
Count of Flanders and Artois (ped. 42).
By his second marriage he had

Ide, or Relinde, who married, first, Frederic, Duke of
Lothier (ped. 53) ; second, Albert III, Count of
Namure (ped. 40).
Ordulph (who follows).

Ordulph, or Otto, Duke of Saxony, who died 1073;
married Gisela, daughter of Olaus, King of Norway,
and had

Magnus, last Duke of Saxony of this race, who died
1 106; married Sophia, daughter of Bela I, King of
Hungary, and had

Eilike, who married Otto, Dives, de Ballenstadt,
Count of Ascania, Margrave of Soltwedel and Branden-
burg, who died 1123 (ped. 9).

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21

The Seigneurs, later Counts, of Egmond* derived their
name from the Chateau of Egmond at a town of the same
name some leagues from Alcmaer in North Holland,
which was destroyed by the rebels during the troubles in
the Low Country in the i6th century. It is certain
that the ancestors of the Seigneurs of Egmond were
Advocates (les avoues) of the Abbey of Egmond, founded
in the loth century by Thierri I, Count of Holland,
which was only a league from the Chateau of Egmond,
but which was also ruined in the revolutions in the Low
Country. Jean a Leidis, in his Chronicon Egmondanum,
Pontus Heuterus and, following them, Simon van
Leeuwen, have given what follows, but which is cor-
rected and augmented in many places. There is found
in those authors some features which have been omitted
because they could not be verified.

Berwold, son it is said, of another Berwold who died
in 1093, is the first who can be recognized as Seigneur
van Egmond and it is said that he died in the war of
Count Floris H, of Holland, against the West Frisians in
1 1 14. He was succeeded by his son.

Albert (or Alard) van Egmond who accompanied
Floris ni. Count of Holland, in his expedition against
the West Frisians and who was killed by them in an
encounter near Schogen, 22 January, 11 69 (N. S.)
(Kluit ad ann. 1168, p. 118, seq.). He is said to have
married a daughter of the Count of Henegouwen by
whom he had

Walter, or Wautier H, Knight, surnamed the Bad
because he wished to appropriate in heredity the right
of advowson of the Abbey of Egmond in violation of the
disposition formerly made regarding it. Walter appears

*L'Art de Verifier les Dates, Ed. 181 8, Vol. xv, i, which is
followed; Batavia Illustrata; by Simon van Leeuwen, 1685, 945;
Adelijk en Aanzienelijk Wapenboek, etc. by Abraham Ferwerda,
1772, Vol. 3.

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for the first time in a Charter of November 3, 1200, as
surety for Thierri VII, Count of Holland, in a treaty
made with Henry I, Duke of Brabant (Kluit, Cod. dipL,
No. 51, 253). Thierri being dead in 1203, Walter
declared for William, his brother, against Ada, his
daughter, and was one of those who made the greatest
efforts to put him in possession of the County of Holland,
1204. He desired to avenge a defeat he had sustained
near Ley den by the Coimt of Loon, husband of Ada,
who shortly before had burned the Chateau of Egmond
{Chron. Holland anonimi monachi Egmond ad ann. 120J
et 1204). After William had mastered Holland, Walter
rebuilt the Chateau. He should have been dead in 1208.
There is given as his wife Clemence, daughter of the
Count of Gelders, but in an Act of 1201 she is called
Mabilie without her surname being expressed. It is
assumed that she was the daughter of Hugh d' Ysselmonde,
because it cannot otherwise be understood why Walter
and Anthony de Gelmen should have made together to
the church of St. Marie de Tosen a donation for the
repose of the souls of their wives and the said Hugh,
quod Walterus de Eggamunda, et Antonius de Gelmen, pro
remedio animarum suarum et Hujonis de Isselmunde, et
pro animatus uxorum suarum, scilicet Mabiliae et Heilewif.
This is in accord with a Charter of the Count of Holland,
dated the year 1201 (Mieris, Code diplom., tom. i, 136).
He is given the following children, WilHam (who follows),
Gerard and Arnold, died in Palestine 1227, Sibrand,
mentioned in 1233, Halewinde, wife of William van
Teylingen and a bastard named Walter who was killed
in 1276 by the Frisians.

William I, according to a charter referred to hereafter,
had succeeded his father in the Seigneury of Egmond in
1 2 13, as appears by a charter in virtue of which Lubert,
Abbot of Egmond, gave him the advowson of that
abbey for him and his descendants or, in default of
descendants, for the eldest of his brothers and their
legitimate heirs, which was confirmed to him in 1226 by
Henry, successor of Lubert (Mieris, tom. i, 160 et 201).

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But from 1216 he entered into dispute with Lubert
concerning the right of advowson. William, Count of
Holland, ended their differences, 28 August of the same
year (Mieris, tom. i, 164). He is met with again as a
witness to a charter of 1231 (Ibid., 208). His death is
referred to as 1234. His wife is given as Badeloge,
daughter of Seigneur Egbert van Amstel (ped. 82), by
whom he had as his successor,

Gerard, Knight, whose death is placed at 1242, and to
whom is given as his wife Mabelia, by whom he had
William (who follows), Thierri and a daughter Sophie,
wife of Jacques de Woude and de Warmonde.

William H, Knight, was Seigneur van Egmond in 1276,
as appears by a letter addressed to him by the Count of
Holland the 28th of July of that year (Kluit, No. 279,
810), and as is more apparent from a charter of June 27,
1 2 83 , of said Count : Fidelis nostre Wilhelmus de Egmunda
miles. . . .quod ipse in domo sua prope Rynogom et super
mansum suum, ubi domus sua situata est, Retinere libere
potest exules nostras. . . .sed in aliis locis in Egmunda et
dominii sui non postest eos retinere; cum tamen omnes
aliae jurisdictiones {baute et basse) sibi libere pertineant
(Mieris, tom. i, 433). This passage proves that the
Seigneurs of Egmond, although vassals and dependents
of the Counts of Holland, were sovereigns in certain
particulars. William had a brother Thierri who was,
apparently, an eccleciastic, since he is placed before him
in act of October 1282, Theodoricus et f rater suus Guillel-
mus de Egmonda (Mieris, tom. i, 427). William reappears
in many charters since 1276; remained May 7, 1293, as
surety for the peace made between the Bishop of Utrecht
and Florent V, Count of Holland (Mieris, tom. i, 551).
In 1296, after the tragic death of that prince, the 27th or
28th of June, William and Gerard van Egmond made,
August following, a treaty with Thierri, Seigneur van
Brederode, and some other nobles to support the interests
of the young Coimt Jean, then absent in England (Mieris,
tom. I, 572). Thierri went at once with a fleet to England

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to bring back the young Count, William and Gerard van
Egmond, Chevaliers, accompanying him, as is seen by a
letter of the King of England dated January 8, 1297
(N. S.), published by Rymer {Acta publica, etc., tom. i,
part 3, 170, edit, at The Hague, 1739). William's death
is placed at 1304 and the name of his wife is given as
Ada, daughter of the Duke of Milan, by whom he is
given two daughters and a son,

Gerard who had died before his father in 1300. He is
met with for the first time under the title of Seigneur van
Egmond in an act (in Flemish) given Tuesday before
mi-Careme, 1292 (N. S.), and for the last time under the
name of Gerard van Egmond in an extract of 24 August,
1299 (Mieris, tom. i, 534 et 606). He married Elizabeth
de Stryen (daughter of Lord Willem van Stryen. Batav.
Illus. 1240), by whom he had William and Walter,
successively Seigneurs van Egmond, Nicholas, Prevot of
Utrecht, Jean, stem of the Seigneurs van Egmond-
Merenstein and Kenenbourg, and Adelaide, wife of
Jacques de Lichtemberg, deceased 133 1.

Walter HI, son of preceding Gerard, was already
successor of his brother WilHam in the Seigneury of
Egmond 28 October, 13 12, as is seen by the Chronicles
of Egmond, c. 53. He died 13 21 and was buried at the
Abbey of Egmond. His wife Beatrix, of the family van
der Dortoge, survived him until 13 51. They are given
an only child,

Jean I, Knight, who increased considerably the
inheritance of his ancestors by means of a marriage
contracted 1330 with Guyote, by which name she is
mentioned in the acts referred to later. Jean de Leide
gives her name as Guida but he is mistaken in making
her daughter of Gilbert van Ysselstein instead of daughter
of Arnoud, Seigneur d' Ysselstein (ped. 22), after whose
death, (Arnoud's) which happened in 1363 (which is in-
ferred from an act of 13 July of that year by which the
Count of Holland disposes of a fief which he had had of
the Seigneurs of Ysselstein, Mieris, tom. iii, 154; at

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least, he died between that day and 4 July, 1359, Ibid.,
100), the Seigneury of Ysselstein came to the house of
Egmond, follo\^'ing the promise which William III,
Count of Holland, had made 20 May, 1330, to confer it
upon Guyote in case her father had no male children,
except reserving the apanage of other daughters, if there
were any (Mieris, tom. 11, 497). In 1350 the factions of
Cabehaux and of Hoeckius having commenced to divide
Holland, Jean was one of the principal partisans of the
former. He should have died in 1369. Jean de Leide
(au Chron. Egmond, chap. 60) places his death as of 28
December, 1370, and says that he was buried at Yssel-
stein; preference is given to his statement. He left a
numerous posterity, among whom was,

Berte who married, first, Waleran van Brederode who
w^as dead in 1369, without issue; second, Gerard van
Culemborg (ped. i).

22

Gysbrecht, Lord van Ysselstein, Knight (ped. 82),
who died 1344, married Beerta, daughter of Otto van
Arkel, Lord van Heukelom (ped. 83), by whom he had

Arnoud, Lord van Ysselstein, Knight, who died 1363;
married Maria, daughter of Guido van Avesnes and van
Henegouwen, Bishop of Utrecht (ped. 23), by whom he
had

GuYOTTE, Lady van Ysselstein, heiress of her father,
who married Jan, Lord van Egmond, who died 1369
(ped. 21).

23

Burgh ARD van Avesnes,* Archdeacon of Laon and
Canon of St. Peter's at Lille, beheaded 1221, married
Margaret II, heiress and daughter of Baldwin IX,
Count of Flanders (ped. 24), and had

*L'Art. XIII, 322; Anderson, 352, 354.

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John van Avesnes, Count of Hainault, who died
1255; married Alix, Adelaide or Adelheid, daughter of
Florence IV, Count of Holland, by which marriage the
earldoms of Holland and Hainault were brought to the
Avesnes family (ped. 54), and had

GuiDO van Avesnes, Bishop of Utrecht, who died
13 1 7 {UArt. XV, 58), who had

Maria, who married Arnoud, Lord van Ysselstein
(ped. 22).

24

Lyderic, Count of Harlebek,* created first hereditary
Governor of Flanders and Forester of the Woods be-
longing thereto, who died 802, had

Engelram, Count of Harlebek and hereditary Gov-
ernor of Flanders and Forester of the Woods, who died
824; who had

Odacre, Count of Harlebek, etc., living 832; who had

Baldwin I, Bras-le-fer, or the Hardy, Count of Flan-
ders and Artois, who died 879; married Judith, widow
of Ethelwolf, King of England, and daughter of Carolus
Calvus, King of France, and Richildis, sister of Richard,
Duke of Burgundy, and Boso I, King of Provence, and
daughter of Theodoric, Count d'Autun (ped. 28) {L'Art.
V, 472; XI, 31), and had

Baldwin H, Calvus, Count of Flanders and Artois,
who died 918; married Elstrude, daughter of Alfred,
King of England, and Aswinte {L'Art. vii, 66) (Ethelbith
or Elswith), daughter of Echelred Muchel, i. e., the Great,
a Mercian Earl in Gainesborough in Lincolnshire. Her
mother was Edburg of the Blood Royal of Mercia {An-
derson, 489). They had

Arnolph I, Senior, Magnus, Count of Flanders and
Artois, who died 965 ; married Alisa or Artelia, daughter
of Herbert H, Count of Vermandois (ped. 25), and had

*UArt. XIII, 280; Anderson, 353; Betham, 567, 568.

94 VAN CULEMBORG

Baldwin III, Junior, Count of Flanders and Artois,
who was made Regent, 958; died 962; married Mechtild,
daughter of Herman Billung, Duke of Saxony (ped. 20).
She married second, Godfrey, Count de Verdun (ped.
32). By the first marriage they had

Arnolph II, Junior, Count of Flanders and Artois,
who died 988 ; married Susanna, called Rosalie, daughter
of Berenger II, King of Italy, and had

Baldwin IV, Barbatus, Count of Flanders and Artois,
who was created Count of Valenciens 1007; died 1036;
married Ogive, or Otgina, daughter of Frederic, Count of
Luxembourg (ped. 26), and had

Baldwin V, Pius or Insulanus, Count of Flanders
and Artois, Regent of France, who died 1067; married
Adelaide, Adele, Alix or Alisa, daughter of Robert II,
Sanctus, King of France, and Constantia, daughter of
WilHam, Count of Arelat and Provence {Anderson, 375),
and had

Baldwin (who follows).

Judith, who married, first, Toston, brother of
Harold II, King of England; second, Welphe,
Duke of Bavaria (ped. 50).

Baldwin VI, Montensis, called the Peaceable, Count of
Flanders and Artois and Count of Hainault in right of his
wife, who died 1070; married Richildis, heiress of Hain-
ault, daughter of Rainier V, Count of Hainault (ped.
27), and widow of Herman, Count of Ardennes, and
had

Baldwin I (or II), youngest son {VArt. xiii, 358),
Count of Hainault, who died 1098; married Ida, or Alix,
daughter of Henry II, Count of Lovain (ped. 33); she
died 1 139; they had

Baldwin II (or III), Count of Hainault {UArt. xiii,
360), who died 1120; married Yolande, daughter of
Gerard de Wassenberg, Count of Gelders (ped. 67), and
had

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Baldwin III (or IV), Count of Hainault, who died
1171 {L'Art. XIII, 361); married Alix, Alexia, Athela
or Adelaide, called Ermessinde, who inherited Namure,
daughter of Godfrey, Count of Namure (ped. 40), and
had

Baldwin IV (or V), Count of Hainault and VIII
Count of Flanders, Marquis of Namure, who obtained all
the dominion of Flanders in right of his wife; died 1195
{UArt. XIII, 364) ; married Margaret I, heiress of Flanders
and Namure after the death of her brother Philip, and
daughter of Thierri d'Alsace {UArt. xiii, 315) (ped. 42).
She died 11 94. They had

Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, Hainault and
Namure, Emperor of Constantinople; slain at Adrianpol
1206 {Anderson, 147); married Mary, daughter of
Henry, Count of Champagne (ped. 44), and had

Margaret II, heiress of Flanders and Hainault,
who died 1280; married Burchard of Avesnes, Arch-
deacon of Laon and Canon of Saint-Pierre at Lille (ped.
23).

25

Pepin, Seigneur of Vermandois,* St. Quentin and
Peronne, who lived 834 (ped. 5), and had

Herbert I, first Count of Vermandois and Abbe of
St. Quentin; Hving 896; assassinated by the Count of
Flanders 902 ; married daughter of Robert le Fort, Duke
of France, and had

Herbert II, Count de Vermandois and Abbe de St.
Quentin ; died 943 ; married Hildebrante, daughter of
Robert, King of France {UArt. xi, 345) and Beatrix,
daughter of Herbert I, Count de Vermandois {UArt. v,
481) (ped. 65), and had

Alix, or Alisa, who married Arnolph I, Count of
Flanders (ped. 24).

*UArt. XII, 177.

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26

WiDERic, or WiGERic, Count of Ardenne,* had

SiEGFRiD, first Count of Luxemburg, who died 998;
married Hedwig and had

Frederic, Count of the Moselle, Count of Salm in
Ardenner-Walde, Count of Luxemburg, who died 1019;
married the granddaughter of Megingaud, Count of
Gelders, and had

Otgina, who died 1029; married Baldwin IV, Barbatus,
Count of Flanders (ped. 24).

27

Rainier I, Longicollus, Count of Hainault.f married
Alberade and had

Rainier (who follows).

Symphorienne, who married Berenger, first Count
of Namure (ped. 40).

Rainier II, Count of Hainault, who died circa 932;
married Alix, or Adelaide, daughter of Richard I, Duke
of Burgundy (ped. 28), and had

Rainier III, Count of Hainault, who died after 971;
married Alix, daughter of Hugon, Count de Dagsbourg
and de Egisheim, and had

Rainier IV, Count of Hainault, who died 1013; mar-
ried Hedwig, daughter of Hugh Capet and Adelaide,
daughter of Emperor Otto {UArt. v, 439), and had

Rainier V, Count of Hainault, who died 1030; mar-
ried Matilde, daughter of Herman, Vicomte de Verdun
(ped. 32), and had

RiCHiLDis, heiress of Hainault, widow of Herman,
Count of Ardennes, who married Baldwin VI, Count of
Flanders and Artois (ped. 24).

*L'Art. XIV, 132; Anderson, 304; Betham, 513.
\UArt. xiii, 353; Anderson, 353; Betham, 567.

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28

Pharamond, King of the West Franks,* who died 428,
married Argotta, daughter of Gunibald, Duke of the
West Franks, who died 419, son of Priam, or Dagobert,
first Duke of the West Franks under the Romans, who
died 389, son of Clodius, King of the West Franks 378
(Anderson, 2,7'^', Betham, 2 4g). They had

Clodio or Clodius, King of the Franks, who died 450
(L'Art. V, 366); married Basina, daughter of Wedelphus,
King of Thuringia, and had

SiGiMERUS I, mentioned by Sidonius Apollinaris, Bishop
of Auvergne, who married the daughter of Ferreolus,
Tonantius, a Roman Senator and son-in-law of the
Emperor Avitus, nephew of the Consul Synogrius and
cousin of Aegidius, or Gilis, who was made King of
France in opposition to Childeric the son of Merovaeus.
They had

Ferreolus, Duke of the Moselle and Margrave of the
Scheld, who married the daughter of Clovis, King of
France, and had

AusPERT, AsoPERT, or Albert, Lord of the Moselle
and Margrave of Scheld, who died 570; married Blithilda,
or Blithildis, daughter of Clothary I, King of France
(UArt. V, 382), and had

Gertrudis, who married Richemeres, Duke of Fran-

conia (ped. 43).
Arnoldus (who follows).

Arnoldus, Lord of the Moselle and Margrave on the
Scheld, who died 601 ; married Oda of Swabia and had
Ita or Ida, who married Pipin, de Landis, first Duke

of Brabant (ped. 29).
St. Arnolph (who follows).

St. Arnolph, Major Domus under King Clothary II,
Bishop of Mentz till 632 and at last a hermit; died 640
{UArt. v, 492, 512); married Doda, a Saxon, and had

* Anderson, 364, 374; Betham, 251, 452.

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Anchises, Margrave of Scheld and, in right of his
wife, Duke of Brabant; Major Domus of King Childeric
II; died 678; married Begga, heiress of Brabant, died
698 {Anderson, 374) (ped. 29), and had

Pepin, le Gros, Duke of Brabant, Major Domus, who
died 714; married Alpaide, and had

Childebrand I, Duke of Burgundy, who died 743, and
had

Nivelon, or Nebelong I, Count de Matrie, who lived
as late as 805, and had

Childebrand II, Count d'Autun, living 832, who had

Theodoric, Coimt d'Autun, who died 885, and had

Richard, Duke of Burgundy and Count d'Autun,
who died 921 {UArt. xi, 30); married Adelaide, sister
of Rodolf I, King of Burgundy, and had

Alix, or Adelaide, who married Rainier II, Count of
Hainault (ped. 27).

29

Charles, Coimt of Brabant,* had

Caroloman, Major Domus, who died 615, and had

PiPiN, de Landis, first Duke of Brabant, Major Domus
of Clothary II, who died 647; married Itta, or Ida,
daughter of Arnold, Margrave of the Scheld (ped. 28),
and had

Begga, heiress of Brabant, who died 698; married
Anchises, Margrave of Scheld and Duke of Brabant
(ped. 28).

30

Welphe, Count of Bavaria, f had

Conrad I, Count d'Auxerre and Count of Burgundy,
who died 866; married Adelaide, daughter of Hugues,
Count de Simdgaw (ped. 31), and had

* Anderson, 374; Betham, 252.

^LArt. X, 383; XI, 201; Anderson, 357; Betham, 571.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 99

Conrad II, Count d'Auxerre and Count of Burgundy,
who died 879; married Ermentrudis and had

Adelaide, sister of Rodolph I, King of Burgundy, who
married Richard, le Justicier, Duke of Burgundy (ped.
28).

31

LuTHERic, or Leuthaire (or Lindesius)* son of
Eichembaldus (ped. 43), Duke de Alemannie, had

Adalric, or Athic or Ethic, Duke of Alsace, who died
690; married Berchsinde, or Berswinde, and had

Adelbert, Duke of Alsace, Count of Nordgaw, who
died 722; married Gerlinde and had

LuiTFRiD, Duke of Alsace, who died before 769, and
had

LuiTFRiD I, Count of Sundgaw, who married Hiltrude
and had

HuGUES I, Count of Sundgaw, who died 837; married
Bara and had

Adelaide, who married Conrad I, Count d'Auxerre
(ped. 30).

32

WiGERic, Count of the palace under the reign of
Charles the Simple and founder of the House of Ard-
ennes,! had

GoziLON, who married Voda and had

GoDEFROi, Count de Verdun, who died after 1004;
married Mathilde, daughter of Herman Billung, Duke of
Saxony (ped. 20). She married, first, Baldwin III, Count
of Flanders (ped. 24). By her first marriage she had

Herman, Count de Verdun, who died 1034; married
Mathilde, daughter of Louis, Count de Dagsburg, and had

*L'Art. XIII, 463; XIV, I.
^L'Art. XIII, 444.

100 VAN CULEMBORG

Mathilde, who married Rainier V, Count of Hainault
(ped. 27).

33

Rainier III, Count of Hainault* (ped. 27), had

Lambert I, Count of Lovain, Duke of Brabant in
right of his wife, who died 1015; married Gerberge,
Duchess of Brabant, daughter of Charles, Duke of
Lower Lorraine (ped. 34), and had

Lambert II, Duke of Brabant and Count of Lovain,
who died 1062; married Ode, daughter of Gothelon, the
Grand, Duke of Lorraine (ped. 37), and had

Adelaide, who married Otto, Margrave of Misnia,
Marquis of Thuringia, Count of Orlamunda
(ped. 38).
Henry- (who follows) .

Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Count of Lovain,
who died 1075; married Adele, or Alix, daughter of Otto,
Count of Orlamunda, Marquis of Thuringia (ped. 38),
and had

Ida, or Alix, who married Baldwin I or II, Count of
Hainault (ped. 24).

34

Louis, Outremer, King of France, f who died 954, mar-
ried Gerberge, widow of Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine,
daughter of the Emperor Henry Auceps (ped. 17), and
had

Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Duke of Brabant,
who died 993 ; married Bonne, daughter of Ricuin, Duke
of the Moselle (ped. 35), and had

Ermengarde, who married Albert I, Count of

Namure (ped. 40).
Gerberge, who married Lambert I, Count of Lovain
and Duke of Brabant (ped. 33).

*L'Art. XIV, 107; Anderson, 355; Betham, 569.
fLArt. V, 484; XIV, 75 ; Betham, 582.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 101

35

St. Arnolph,* Major Domus under King Clothary II,
Bishop of Mentz till 632 and finally a hermit, died 640
(ped. 28) {UArt. v, 492, 512); married Doda, a Saxon,
and had

St. Clodulphus, Duke on the Moselle and Bishop of
Mentz; died 718; who had

Martin, Duke on the Moselle; died 710; married
Beatrix, daughter of Hitulph, Count of Ardenne in
Luxembourg, and had

Lambert, Duke on the Moselle and Count of Ardenne;
died 778; who had

Loherus, Duke on the Moselle; died 809; who had

Frederic, Duke on the Moselle, Count of Ardenne;
died 847; married Felicitas, daughter and heiress of
Henry II, Count of Salm (ped. 36), and had

Sadigerus, Duke on the Moselle, Count of Lower
Salm, Ardenne and Bouillon; died 876; who had

Raginerus, or Gisilbertus, Duke on the Moselle,
Count of Ardenne and Duke of Lorraine; died 912;
married Ermengardis, daughter of Emperor Lothary and
Hermingardis, daughter of Count Hugh {Anderson, 216;
Betham, 402), and had

RicuiNUS, Duke on the Moselle; died 928; who had

Bonne, or Bona, who married Charles, Duke of
Lower Lorraine and Duke of Brabant (ped. 34).

36

SALMo,t lived A. M. 3934, had
Martialis I, who had
Mansuetus, who had

* Anderson, 364; Betham, 582.
^Anderson, 320; Betham, 434.

102 VAN CULEMBORG

JuLiANUS, A. D. 30, who had

JuLiANUs II, died 56, who had

Symetrius, who had

Symetrius II, died 132, who had

Symetrius III, died 158, who had

Symetrius IV, died 198, who had

Symetrius V, died 220, who had

Symetrius VI, died 281, who had

Martialis II, died 309, who had

Martialis III, died 349, who had

Martialis IV, died 399, who had

Martialis V, died 429, who had

Martialis VI, died 457, who had

Charles I, died 490, who had

Charles II, died 510, who had

Charles III, died 550, who had

Charles IV, died 588, who had

Ramb ALDUS, died 617, who had

Rambaldus II, died 648, who had

Ramb ALDUS III, died 681, who had

Henry I, Magnus, died 731, who had

Henry II, Senior, who possessed Lower Salm and
rebuilt Upper Salm in Lorraine; died 741; who had

Felicitas, heiress of Lower Salm at Ardenner Walde
in Luxemborg, who married Frederic, Palatin and Duke
on the Moselle (ped. 35), who had

RicuiNUS, Duke on the Moselle, who died 928 (ped.
35), who had

Godofredus, Barhatus, Count of Ardenne, died 1003,
who had

ALLIED ANCESTRY 103

GoTHELO I, or GozELO, Duke of Lower and Upper
Lorrain; died 1044 {L'Art. xiii, 388), who had

Ragelinde, who married Albert II, Count of Namure

(ped. 40).
Oda, who married Lambert II, Duke of Brabant and
Count of Lovain (ped. 33).

38

PoppoN, Duke of Thuringia and Marquis of the Fron-
tier of Sorabes,* who was deposed by the Emperor
Arnold in 892, had

PoppoN, died 945, who had

William, died 963, who had

William, died 1003, who had

Otto, Margrave of Misnia, Marquis of Thuringia,
Count of Orlamunda, who died 1067; married Adelaide,
daughter of Lambert II, Count of Lovain (ped. 33), and
had

Adele, who married, first, Adalbert, Count de Ballen-
stadt; second, Henry II, Duke of Brabant (ped. 33),
after whose death she married Herman, Count of Luxem-
bourg, and Roman Emperor (ped. 59) {Betham, 513,
569; UArt. XIV, 108).

39

GoDESCALC, Count of Zutphenf in 1059, died about
1074; married Adelaide and had

Otto II, who succeeded his father as Count of Zut-
phen in 1074; created first Count of Gelders 1079; died
1107 or 1113; married Judith and had

Ermengarde, who married, first, Gerard de Wassen-
berg (died 1128), Count of Gelders in right of his wife,

*L'Art. XVI, 198. 37 was omitted in numbering.
^L'Art. XIV, 277.

104 VAN CULEMBORG

great-grandson of Gerard, Seigneur de Wassenberg; she
married second, Conrad II, Count of Luxembourg. By
her first marriage they had

YoLANDE {L'Art. XIII, 360), who married Baldwin II
or III, Count of Hainaut (ped. 24).

40

Berenger, first Count of Namure,* who lived 908,
932, married Symphorienne, daughter of Rainier I,
Duke of Lorraine and Count of Hainault, surnamed
Long-cou, who died 916 (ped 27), and his wife Alberade,
and had

Robert (who follows).

Adele, who married Lodewijk, Count of Teisterbant
and Hoey (ped. i).

Robert I, Count of Namure, who lived 932, had

Albert I, Count of Namure, who lived 973; married
Ermengarde, daughter of Charles, Duke of Lower
Lorraine (ped. 34), and Bonne, daughter of Ricuin, Duke
of the Moselle (ped. 35), and had

Hedwig, who married Gerard II, Count of Alsatia,

Duke of Upper Lorraine (ped. 43).
Ratbode (who follows).

Ratbode, or Robert II, Count of Namure, who
Hved 1 01 3, and had

Albert II, Count of Namure, who died 1037; married
Ragelinde, daughter of Gothelo I, Duke of Upper and
Lower Lorraine (ped. 37), and had

Hedwig, who married Gerhard II, Count of Alsatia,

Duke of Upper Lorraine (ped. 58).
Albert III (who follows).

Albert III, Count of Namure, who died 1105; mar-
ried Ide or Relinde, widow of Frederic, Duke of Lothier,
and daughter of Bernard, Duke of Saxony (ped. 20), and

*L'Art. XIII, 352, 378; XIV, 112.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 105

Eilike, daughter of Henry, Marquis de Schweinfurt,
and had

Ide, who married Godefroi, Duke of Brabant
(ped. 68).

Godfrey (who follows).

Godfrey, le Barbu, Count of Namure and Lovain;
died 1 139; married Ermenside, or Ermerson, daughter
of Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg (ped. 41), and widow
of Albert, Count of Dagsbourg, and had

Adelaide, called also Ermengarde, who married
Baldwin IV, Count of Hainault (ped. 24).

41

Frederic, Count of the Moselle, Count of Salm in
Ardenner-Walde, Count of Luxemburg,* died 1019 (ped.
26) ; married the granddaughter of Megingaud, Count of
Gelders, and had

GiSELBERT, Count of Luxembourg, who died 1057, who
had

Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg, who died 1086; mar-
ried Clemence, called Ermensindis, heiress of Longevi,
daughter of Emperor Henry IV, and had

Ermensindis, or Ermenson, who married, first, Albert,
Count of Dachsburg or Dagsburg; second, Godfrey,
Count of Namure (ped. 40).

42

Baldwin V, Pius or Insulanus, Count of Flanders and
Artois, Regent of France,! died 1067 (ped. 24); married
Adelaide, Adele, Alix or Alisa, daughter of Robert II,
Sanctus, King of France, and had

Robert I, the Frisian, Count of Flanders and Artois;
died 1094 {UArt. xiii, 293); married Gertrudis, daughter

*L'Art. XIV, 132; Anderson, 304; Betham, 513.
^LArt. XIII, 390; Anderson, 353; Betham, 567.

106 VAN CULEMBORG

of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (ped. 20), and Bertrada,
daughter of Haraldus VI, King of Norway, and had

Gertrudis {L'Art. xiii, 305), who married Theodoric,
Count of Alsatia (ped. 43), and had

Theodoric, of Alsatia, Count of Flanders and Artois;
died 1 1 66; married Svanechildis, or Swanhildis, of
Clermont, and had

Margaret I, heiress of Flanders and Namure; died
1 194; married Baldwin V, Count of Hainault and VIII
of Flanders, and of Namure in right of his wife (ped. 24).

43

Egaor, or Egi, Major Domus,^ married Gerberga,
daughter of Richemeres, Duke of Franconia, and Ger-
trudis, daughter of Ausbertus, or Albert, Lord on the
Moselle, and Margrave on the Schelde (ped. 28), and
Blitildis, daughter of King Clothary I, and had

Eichembaldus, or Erckembaldus, Major Domus
under Clodovaldus II, King of France; died 661; mar-
ried Leudifindus, and had

LiNDESius, Major Domus, of Theodoric III, King of
France ; died 680 ; who had

Ethicus, or Athicus, sumamed Adelricus, Duke of
Alsatia, Allemania, Swabia and Upper Germany; died
720; married Berswinda, sister of Bilibildis, wife of
Childeric II, King of France, and had

Ethico, Duke of Alsatia, who had

Alberic, Count of Alsatia, who had

Eberhard I, Count of Habsburg, who had

Eberhard II, Count of Habsburg, who married
Adalinda and had

Hugh, Count of Alsatia, who married Hildegardis and
had

*Anderson, 224, 364, 365; Betham, 411.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 107

Eberhard III, Count of Alsatia, alias Gerhard,
Count of Mentz, who had

Adelbert, Count of Alsatia, who had

Gerard II, Count of Alsatia, created Duke of Upper
Lorraine; died 1070 {L'Art. xiii, 389); married Hedwig,
daughter of Albert I, Count of Namure (ped. 40), and had

Theodoric II, the Valiant, Count of Alsatia and Duke
of Lorraine; died 11 15; married Gertrude, daughter of
Robert, Friso, Count of Flanders (ped. 42) {L'Art. xiii,
390)-

44

Thiedbert, or Theodebert, Count de Blois,* had

Robert I, Count de Blois, who had

Robert, le Fort, Count de Blois; died 866; married
Adelaide and had

Richilde, who married Gerlon, Gello, Thibault or
Thiebolt, a Norman, Count of Tours, who died 928, and
had

Thibaut, le Vieux, le Tricheur, or le Fourbe, de Mon-
taigu, Count de Blois, de Chartres, de Tours, de Beau-
vis, de Meaux and de Provins; died 978 or 990; married
Leutgarde, widow of William Longue-epee, Duke of Nor-
mandy, daughter of Herbert II, Count de Vermandois
(ped. 65), and had

EuDES I, Count de Blois, de Chartres de Tours, de
Beauvis, de Meaux and de Provins; died 995; married
Bertha, daughter of Conrad, le Pacifique, King of Aries,
and Mathilde, or Mahaut of France, sister of King
Lothaire, and had

EuDES II, le Champenois, Count de Blois, de Chartres,
de Tours, and de Champagne; died 1037; married
Ermengarde, daughter of Robert I, Count d'Auvergne
(ped. 45), and had

*UArt. XI, 348.

108 VAN CULEMBORG

Thibaut III, Count de Blois, Tours, Chartres and
Champagne; died 1089; married Alix, or Adele, daughter
of Raoul, Count de Crepi, and had

Stephen, also called Henry, Count de Blois, Meaux,
Brie, Chartres, Champagne; died 1102; married Alix,
or Adele, daughter of William I, King of England, and
Mathilde, daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders
{UArt. XIII, i), and had

Thibaut IV, le Grand, Count of Blois, Chartres, Brie
and Champagne; died 11 52; married Mathilde, daughter
of Engelbert II, Duke de Carinthie and Marquis de
Frioul (ped. 48), and had

Henry I, le Liberal or le Large, called also Richard,
Count of Champagne, Blois, Chartres, Sancerre, Viscount
de Chateaudun; died 1181; married Marie, daughter of
King Louis VII, and Eleonora, and had

Marie, who married Baldwin, Count of Flanders,
Emperor of Constantinople (ped. 24).

45

Oliba I, descended of the family of St. William, Duke
of Toulouse, Count of Carcassone and of Rasez,* died
836; married Elmetrude and had

Louis-Eliganius, Count of Carcassone and of Rasez,
who lived 851 ; who had

AcFRED I, Count jointly with his brother Oliba II
of Carcassone and of Rasez ; died 904 ; married Adelinde
(Adelaide, called also Adalvis), who lived as late as 944,
daughter of Bernard II, Plantevelue, Count of Auvergne
and of Macon, who died 866, and his wife Hermengarde
daughter of Warin, Count of Macon, of Autun and
Chalons, and Duke of Toulouse or Acquitaine, who died
850 or 856, and his wife Albane {UArt. x, 126; xi, 9).
They had

Bernhard, who died during his father's life, who had
*L'Art. IX, 418; X, 132.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 109

AsTORG, Viscount of Auvergne, who married Ingel-
burge, Lady of Beaumont in le Chalonais, and had

William V, Count of Auvergne who died 1016 ; married
Humberge and had

Robert I, Count and Prince of Auvergne; died 1032;
married Hermengarde, daughter of William Taillefer,
Count of Toulouse (ped. 46), and had

Hermengarde, who married Eudes II, Count of Cham-
pagne (ped. 44).

46

FuLGUAD, or FuLCOAD,* married Senegonde and had

Raymond I, Count and Duke of Toulouse, Count of
Rouergue and Querci; died 864; married Bertheiz and had

Odon, or Eudes, Duke of Toulouse and Count of
Rouergue and Querci; died 918 or 919; married Gar-
sinde, daughter of Ermengaud, Count d'Albi, and had

Raymond II, Coimt of Toulouse; died 922; married
Guidinilde and had

Raymond-Pons III, Count of Toulouse, Duke of
Aquitaine and Count of Auvergne; died 950; married
Garsinde and had

William Taillefer III, Count of Toulouse, Count of
Auvergne; died 1037; married Arsinde, called Blanche,
daughter of Foulques II, le Bon, Count d'Anjou (ped. 47),
and had

Ermengarde, who married Robert I, Count
d 'Auvergne (ped. 45).

47

ToRQUAT, Citizen of Rennes.f had

Tertulle, Senechal of Gatinais, who married Petron-
ille, daughter of Hugues I'Albe, Count d'Auxerre, son of
Conrad I, Coimt d'Auxerre (UArt. xi, 201), and had

*UArt. IX, 365.
^UArt. XIII, 40.

110 VAN CULEMBORG

Ingelger I, Count d'Anjou; died 8S8; married
Adele, daughter and heiress of Geoff roi I, Count de
Gatinais, and had

FouLQUES I, le Roux, Count d'Anjou; died 938; mar-
ried Roscille, daughter of Gamier, Seigneur de Loches,
de Villandri and de la Hail, and had

FouLQUES II, le Bon, Count d'Anjou; died 958; mar-
ried Gerberge and had

Arsinde, called Blanche, who married William III,
called Taillefer, Count de Toulouse (ped. 46).

48

Marquand, Count de Meurzthal,* had

Adelberon d'Eppenstein, Count de Meurzthal, Duke
of Carinthia; died 1039; married Brigette and had

Marquard d'Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia; died
1077; married Luipirch and had

Henry II, Marquis d'Istrie, Duke of Carinthia; died
1 127; married Sophie, daughter of Leopold, le Beau,
Margrave of Austria (ped. 49), and had

Hedwig, who married Engelbert, Count d'Ortenbourg
and de Lavant, Marquis d'Istrie, and had

Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia, Count of Ortenbourg
and Lavant, Marquis d'Istrie; died 1142; married Utha,
daughter of Ulric, Count de Putten, and had

Mathilde, who married Thibaut, le Grand, Count de
Champagne (ped. 44).

49

PoppoN, Count, t had

Henry, Duke of Thuringia and Saxony; died 886;
married Brunhilda and had

*L'Art. XVII, 63.
^L'Art. XVII, 19.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 111

Henry, who died 902; married Barbe, daughter of
Otto, Duke of Saxony (ped. 17), and had

Otto, Count, who had

Adelbert, Count de Mertal; died 954; who had

Leopold, I'lllustre, Margrave of Austria; died 994;
married Kihkart, Reichart or Richilde, and had

Henry I, Margrave of Austria; died 1018; married
Swanhilde and had

Albert I, le Victorieux, Margrave of Austria; died
1056 ; married Adelaide, sister of Pierre, called V Allemana,
King of Hungary, and daughter of Otto Orseolo, Doge of
Venice {UArt. vii, 404), and had

Ernest, le Vaillant, Margrave of Austria; died 1075;
married Adelaide, daughter of Dedon, Marquis de
Lusace, and had

Leopold II, le Beau, Margrave of Austria; died 1096;
married Itha, daughter of Welphe I, Duke of Bavaria
(ped. 50), and had

Sophie, who married Henry II, Marquis d'Istrie,
Duke of Carinthia (ped, 48).

50

Adelbert III, Marquis of Italy* (of the House of
Este), living 940, had

Obert I, or Albert, Marquis of Italy, Count of the
Sacred Palace, living as late as 971, who had

Obert II, Marquis of Italy, living 1014, who had

Albert-Azzo I, Marquis of Italy and Count, living
1029, who had

Albert-Azzo II, Marquis of Italy, Count de Lunig-
iana, Seigneur d'Est and de Rovigo; died 1097; married
Cunegonde, Princess of the House of Guelfes, sister of

*UArt. XVII, 390; XVI, 112.

112 VAN CULEMBORG

Welphe III, Duke of Carinthia and Marquis de Verone
(ped. 51), and had

Welphe I (IV d'Est), Duke of Bavaria; died iioi;
married Judith, widow of Tostin, brother of Harold II,
King of England, and daughter of Baldwin V, Count of
Flanders (ped. 24), and had

Itha, who married Leopold II, Margrave of Austria
(ped. 49).

51

Adelbert, Duke of Alsace, Count of Nordgaw,* died
722 (ped. 31); married Gerlinde and had

Eberhard, Count of Sundgaw {UArt. xiii, 464)*
Duke of Alsatia; died 747 {L'Art. xiv, i); married
Emeltrude and had

Warinus, Lord of Altorf in Swabia, living till 771;
married Ara and had

IsENBART, Lord of Altorf, living 808, Founder of the
House of Guelf; married Irmentrudis, daughter of
Childebrand, Duke of Swabia, and had

Welphe I, or Guelphus sumamed Catulus, Count of
Altorf, Duke of Bavaria; died 820; married Hedwig, of
a Saxon family, and had

Ethico, Count of Altorf and Ravensburg; died 870;
married Judith, daughter of a King of England, most
likely Ethelwolph, son of Egbert, and had

Henry I, with the Golden Chariot, created first Duke of
Lower Bavaria, 860; married Drina, a Princess of
Flanders, and had

Henry II, Duke of Lower Bavaria and Count of
Altorf, living 910; married Hatta or Beata, a Countess
of Hohenwort, daughter of Rapoto, or Rapold, first
Count of Andech, son of Rapold son of Emperor Amolph
{Anderson, 228), and had

* Anderson, 242; Betham, 430.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 113

Rudolph I, Duke of Lower Bavaria and Count of
Altorf and Ravensburg; died 940; married Seburgis, of
Swabia, and had

Gerbergis, who married Arnolph, Duke of Upper
Bavaria (ped. 52), and had

Welpho II (I), Count of Altorf and Ravensburg,
Duke of Lower Bavaria; died 980; who had

Rudolph II, Duke of Lower Bavaria, Count of Altorf
and Ravensburg; died 1020; married Itha, daughter
of Cuno, Count of Deningen in Boden and Richildis,
daughter of Emperor Otto I, and had

Welpho III (II), Duke of Lower Bavaria and Count of
Altorf; died 1047; married Judith, daughter of Frederic,
Count on the Moselle, son of Siegfrid, first Lord of
Luxembourg (ped. 53), and had

CuNiGUNDA, heiress of Lower Bavaria, who married
Alberto-Azo II, Margrave of Este (ped. 50).

52

Leopold, or Luitpold, Marquis and Duke of Bavaria,*
died 907; married Hildegarde, daughter of Louis II, or
le Germanique, and had

Arnold, le Mauvais, Duke of Bavaria; died 937;
married Gerberga, daughter of Rodolfe, Count of Altorf
(ped. 51).

53

Wideric, or WiGERic, Count of Ardennes,! had

SiGEFROi, first Count of Luxembourg, who died 998;
married Hedwig, and had

Luitgarda, who married Arnolph, Count of Holland

(ped. 54).
Frederic (who follows).

*L'Art. XVI, loi.
\UArt. XIV, 132, 83.

114 VAN CULEMBORG

Frederic I, Count of Luxembourg, died 1019; by his
wife, the granddaughter of Megingaud, Count of Gelders,
he had

Frederic (who follows).

Judith, who married Guelph, Duke of Lower Bavaria
(ped. 51).

Frederic II, Count of Luxembourg, Duke of Lower
Lorraine {L'Art. xiv, 83), died 1065; married, first,
Gerberga, daughter of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne;
second, Ide, called also Raelinde, who afterwards mar-
ried Albert III, Count of Namure (ped. 40). Frederic,
by his first marriage had

Jutte, or Judith, who married Waleran, Count of
Limbourg (ped. 69).

54

Arnolph, Count of Holland and Zeeland and Lord of
Friesland,* died 1003 or 4 (ped. 4); married Luitgarda,
daughter of Sigefroi, first Count of Luxembourg (ped.
53), and had

Theodoric III, Count of Holland and Zeeland and
Lord of Friesland; died 1039; married Othilde, daughter
of Otto II, Duke of Franconia, Saxon Emperor, and had

Florence I, Count of Holland and Zeeland and Lord
of Friesland; died 1061; married Gertrudis, daughter
of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (ped. 20). She married,
second, Robert le Prison, Count of Flanders (ped. 42).
They had by first marriage

Theodoric V, Count of Holland and Zeeland and
Lord of Friesland; died 1091; married Othilde, daughter
of Frederic Palatin, Duke of Saxony (ped. 55), and had

Florence II, Crassus, Count of Holland and Zee-
land and Lord of Friesland ; died 1 1 2 2 ; married Petron-
ille, called Gertrude, sister of Lothaire, Count of Sup-
plenbourg, Emperor 1125, and daughter of Theodoric II,
Duke of Lorraine (ped. 58), and had

* U Art. xiY, 410; Anderson, 2,$'^' Betham, $66.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 115

Theodoric VI, Count of Holland and Zeeland and
Lord of Friesland ; died 1 1 5 7 ; married Sophia, daughter
of Otto, Count of Rineck, qualified Count Palatin of the
Rhine (ped. 59), and Gertrude, widow of Sigefroi, Count
Palatin of the Rhine, and had

Florence III, Count of Holland and Zeeland and Lord
of Friesland; died 11 90; married Ada, granddaughter of
David, King of Scotland, and sister of William the Lion,
King of Scotland (ped. 62), and had

William I, Count of Holland and Zeeland and Lord
of Friesland; died 1223; married Adelaide, daughter of
Otto II or III, Count of Gelders (ped. 67) {L'Art. xiv,
282), and had

Florence IV, Count of Holland and Zeeland and
Lord of Friesland; died 1235; married Mathilde, daugh-
ter of Henry I, Duke of Brabant (ped. 68), and had

Alix, Adelheid or Adelaide, who married John van
Avesnes (ped. 23).

55

Dedo II, Count of Wettin,* died 1019 (ped. 13); mar-
ried Tetburga, daughter of Theodoric, Margrave of
Brandenburg (ped. 15), and had

Frederic, Palatin of Saxony; died 1020; married
Agnes, daughter of Dedo I, Margrave of Misnia (ped. 56),
and had

Othilde, or UiTHiLDis, who married Theodoric V,
Count of Holland (ped. 54).

56

Dedo II, Count of Wettin, f who died 1019 (ped. 13),
married Tetburga (ped. 15), and had

DiETRicus II, Count of Wettin and Landsberg; died
1034; married Mathildis, daughter of Eckard, Margrave
of Misnia (ped. 57), and had

*Anderson, 245; Betham, 435.
^Anderson, 245; Betham, 435,

116 VAN CULEMBORG

Dedo I, Margrave of Misnia and Lansnitz; died 1083;
married Adelheid, of Brabant, and had

Agnes, who married Frederic, Palatin of Saxony
(ped. ss).

57

EcKARD, or Eggihard,* of a noble family of Thuringia,
had

GoNTHiER, Margrave of Misnia; died 982; who had

EcKARD I, Margrave of Misnia; died 1002; married
Swanechilde, daughter of Herman Billung, Duke of
Saxony (ped. 20) and widow of Ditmar, Marquis of
Lusace, and had

Mathilde, who married Dietricus, Count of Wettin,
(ped. 56).

58

Gerhard II, Count of Alsatia,t created Duke of Upper
Lorraine, died 1070 (ped. 43); married Hedwig, daughter
of Albert II, Count of Namure (ped. 40), and had

Theodoric II, le Valliant, Count of Alsatia and Duke
of Lorraine; died 11 15; married Hedwig, daughter of
Frederic, Count de Formbach, and widow of Gebhard,
Count de Supplenbourg, and had

Gertrude, called also Petronille, who married Flor-
ence II, Count of Holland (ped. 54).

59

WiDERic or WiGERic, Count of Ardennes,! had

Siegfrid, first Count of Luxembourg; died 998; mar-
ried Hedwig and had

*L'Art. XVI, 195.

\L'Art. XIII, 389; XIV, 425.

XUArt. XIV, 132; Anderson, 304; Betham, 513.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 117

Frederic I, Count of the Moselle or Count of Salm
in Ardenner-Walde, Count of Luxembourg; died 1019;
who had

GiSELBERT, Count of Luxembourg; died 1057 ; who had

Herman, Elected Roman Emperor; died 1088; mar-
ried Adelheid, daughter of Otto, Count of Orlamimda
(ped. 38) and widow of Henry H, Duke of Brabant, who
died 1068 {L'Art. xvi, 199). After Herman's death she
married Henry de Lacu, Palatin of the Rhine, who died
1095. She died iioo. By Herman she had

Otto I, Count of Rinecke, Count Palatin of the Rhine,
living till 1 1 58; married Gertrudis, widow of Sigefroi,
Count Palatin of the Rhine, and daughter of Henry the
Fat, Duke of Saxony (ped. 60) {L'Art. xiv, 426), By
Otto she had

Sophia, who died 11 76; married Theodoric VI, Count
of Holland (ped. 54). Through her son Otto descend the
Counts of Bentheim.

60

Egbert, Margrave of Saxony and Thuringia, Count of
Brunswick, Marquis of Misnia, died 1068 (ped. 17).
(UArt. XVI, 199, 207, 208); married Hermengarde and
had

Gertrude, Countess of Brunswick and Margravinne
of Misnia; as widow of Theodoric of Cattenbourg she
married Henry the Fat, Duke of Saxony (ped. 61)
{L'Art. XVI, 208), and had

Gertrude, who married, first, Sigfried, Palatin of the
Rhine {UArt. xiv, 426; xv, 342); second, Otto, Count of
Reinecke (ped. 59).

61

Henry, Duke of Bavaria,* who died 955 (ped. 17),
married Judith, daughter of Arnold the Bad (ped. 18),
and had

*Betham, 428.

118 VAN CULEMBORG

Herman, Count of Northeim in Hanover, who had

SiGFRiED, Count of Northeim and Gottingen, who had

Otto, Count of Northeim, Duke of Saxony on the
Weser, Duke of Bavaria; died 1083; married Cunixa of
Bavaria and had

Henry, the Fat, Count of Northeim, Duke of Saxony;
died iioi {L'Art. xvi, 208); married Gertrude, heiress
of Saxony (ped. 60).

62

David I, King of Scotland,* died 1153; married
Mathilde, or Maud, daughter of Waldeophus, Earl of
Northumberland, and Judith, granddaughter of William
the Conqueror, and had

Henry, Prince of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, Earl
of Cumberland and Northumberland; died 11 52; mar-
ried Adama, daughter of William, Earl of Warren and
Surrey (ped. 63), and Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh
Magnus, Count de Vermandois (ped. 64), and had

Ada, or Adelaide, who married Florence HI, Count of
Holland (ped. 54).

63

William de Guarrena, or Warren,! accompanied
Duke William to England and was created by him Earl
of Surrey; died 1088; married Gundreda, daughter of
William the Conqueror, and Mathilda or Maud, daughter
of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (ped. 24) {UArt. xiii,
14), and had

William H, Earl of Warren and Surrey; died 1138;
married Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Magnus, Count de
Varmandois (ped. 64), and had

Ada, or Adama, who married Henry, Prince of Scot-
land (ped. 62).

* L'Art. VII, 253; Anderson, 375, 502, 503; Betham, 619.
^Anderson, 415, 375; Betham, 619; Berry's Essex Fami-
lies, 66.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 119

64

Henry I, King of France,* died 1060; married Anne,
daughter of George, Czar of Russia, and had

Hugh Magnus, Count de Vermandois, Valois, etc.,
who married Adelaide, daughter and heiress of Herbert,
Count de Vermandois (ped. 65), and Adelheid of Crespy,
Countess of Valois and Amiens (ped. 66), and had

Elizabeth, who married, first, Robert de Beaumont,
first Baron de Bellomonte, created Earl of Leicester and
Earl of Meulent; second, William de Warren, Earl of
Surrey (ped. 63).

65

Charlemagne, Emperor, f (ped. 3), married Hildegarde
of Swabia, and had

Pepin, King of Italy and Lombardy; died 810; who
had

Bernard, King of Italy; died 818; married Cune-
conde and had

Pepin, who was deprived of Italy by Emperor Louis
Debonnaire and received a part of Vermandois and the
Seigneuries of St. Quentin and Peronne (the title of
Count of Vermandois having been given him without
authority); living 834; had

Herbert I, first Count of Vermandois and Abbe de
St. Quentin; living 896; assassinated by Count of
Flanders 902 ; had

Herbert II, Count de Vermandois, Count de Troyes
{UArt. XI, 345) and Abbe de St. Quentin; died 943;
married Hildebrante, daughter of Robert, King of
France {UArt. xi, 345), and had

Leutgarde, who married, first, William Longue-
epee, Duke of Normandy; second, Thibaut,

*VArt. v, 504, XII, 177, 194; Anderson, 353, 375, 502, 503;
Betham, 254.

^L'Art. V, 439; xii, 177.

120 VAN CULEMBORG

le Vieux, le Tricheur, or le Fourbe, de Montaigu,
Count de Blois, etc. (ped. 44).
Albert (who follows).

Albert I, called the Pious, Count de Vermandois and
Abbe de St. Quentin; died 987; married Gerberga,
daughter of Louis d'Outremer, King of France, and Ger-
berga, daughter of the Emperor Henry Auceps, and had

Herbert HI, Count de Vermandois, who succeeded
in 988 and took, as his predecessors, the title also of Abbe
de St. Quentin; died 1000; married Hermegarde and had

Otto, Count of Vermandois and Abbe de St. Quentin;
died 1045; married Pavie and had

Herbert IV, Count de Vermandois, Count of Valois
in right of his wife; died 1080; married Hildebrante,
Adele or Adelheid, daughter of Ralph or Raoul HI, Count
de Valois (ped. 66), and had

Adelaide, who inherited in 1080 the titles of Ver-
mandois and Valois; married Hugh Magnus, son of
Henry I, King of France (ped. 63).

66

Pepin, brother of Herbert I, Count de Vermandois*
(ped. 65), regarded as first Count de Valois, living 813, had

Bernard, (son or near relative of Pepin), Count de
Valois; lived in 956; succeeded by the Counts of Vexin,
Woleran, or Gamier, Gauthier I and Gauthier H.

Raoul II, fourth son of Gauthier II, Count of Valois
and Amiens; married Adele, daughter of Hilduin or
Haudouin, Seigneur of Rameru, of Breteuil, of Clermont
and of Nanteuil, surnamed Nanteuil-Haudouin, and had

Raoul III, le Grand, Count of Valois and Amiens; died
1074; married Adele, heiress of Count Nocher, and had

Adele, or Hildebrante, who married Herbert IV,
Count de Vermandois (ped. 65).

*L'Art. XII, 177.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 121

67

Otto II, created first Count of Guelders,* died 1107
or 1 1 13 (ped, 39) ; married Judith and had

Ermengarde, who succeeded as Countess of Gelders
in 1 1 13; married, first, Gerard de Wassenberg, Count of
Guelders (ped. 39) in right of his wife. He died 1128;
was great-grandson of Gerard, Seigneur de Wassenberg.
She married second, in 1134 or later, Conrad II, Count of
Luxembourg. By first marriage they had

Jutte, who married Waleran, Count of Limbourg,

Duke of Lower Lorraine (ped. 69).
Yolande, who married Baldwin II (or III), Count

of Hainaut (ped. 24).
Gerard (who follows).

Gerard II, who succeeded as Count of Gelders in 11 28;
died 1 141; married Clemence, Countess of Glisberg,
or Gleyberg, who was a widow in 1 141, and had

Henry I, who succeeded as Count of Gelders in 1141;
lived to 1 1 77; married Seinare, said to have been of the
House of Lorraine, and had

Otto II or III, Count of Guelders; died 1 204-1 206;
married Richarde, daughter of Gerhard III, Count of
Juhck, and Countess of Sayn (Anderson, 347), and had

Adelaide, who married William I, Count of Holland
(ped. 54).

6S

Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Count of Lovain,t
died 1075 (ped. 33); married Adele, or Alix, daughter of
Otto, Count of Orlamunde and Marquis of Thuringia
(ped. 38), and had

Godefroi, le Barbu and le Grand, Duke of Brabant,
Count of Lovain, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Marquis
d'Anvers; died 1140 {UArt. xiv, iii, 89, 90); married

*UArt. XIV, 277.

fLArt. XIV, III, 74; Anderson, 355; Betham, 569.

122 VAN CULEMBORG

Ide, daughter of Albert III, Count of Namure (ped. 40),
and had

GoDEFROi II, Duke of Brabant, Lower Lorraine, Mar-
quis d' An vers and Count of Lovain; died 1143 (Ibid.
91); married Lutgarde, sister-in-law of the Emperor
Conrad III, and had

GoDEFROi III, le Courageux, Duke of Brabant, Lower
Lorraine, Marquis d'Anvers and Count of Lovain; died
1 190 (Ibid); married Margaret, daughter of Henry II,
Count de Limbourg (ped. 69), and had

Henry I, Duke of Brabant, Lower Lorraine, Marquis
d'Anvers and Count of Lovain; died 1235 {Ibid, 93);
married Mathilde, niece of Philip, Count of Flanders, and
daughter of Mathieu d'Alsace, Count of Boulogne (ped.
71), and had

Mathilde, who married Florence IV, Count of Hol-
land (ped. 54).

69

Waleran, Count d'Arlon,* married Adele, daughter of
Thierri, Duke of the Moselle (ped. 70) {UArt. xiii, 388),
and had

Waleran I, le Vieux, called also Udon, Count d'Arlon,
Count de Limbourg; built the Chateau of Limbourg;
died 1070 to 1081; married Jutte, or Judith, daughter of
Frederic II of Luxembourg, Duke of Lower Lorraine
(ped. 53), and had

Henry I, Count of Limbourg, Duke of Lower Lorraine,
Marquis d'Anvers; died 11 18; married Adelaide, daugh-
ter of Bodon, Count of Pottenstein, in Bavaria, and
grand-daughter of Otto, Marquis of Schweinfurt and
Duke of Swabia, and had

Waleran II, Pay en, Count of Limbourg, Duke of
Lower Lorraine and Marquis d'Anvers; died 1139;
married Jutte, or Judith, heiress of Wassenberg {L'Art.

*UArt. XIV, 147.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 123

XIV, 280), daughter of Gerard, Count of Guelders (ped.
67), and had

Henry II, Count of Limbourg, Count d'Arlon, Duke
of Ardennes; died 11 70; married Mathilde, daughter of
Adolph, Count de Saphenberg and Seigneur de Roldue,
and had

Marguerite, who married Godefroi III, Duke of
Brabant, Lower Lorraine, Marquis d' An vers and Count
of Louvain (ped. 68).

70

WiGERic, Count of the Palace,* under King Charles
the Simple, had

Frederic I, Count de Bar, Duke of Upper Lorraine,
called Moselle; died 984; married Beatrix, niece of Otto
I, King of Germany, and sister of Hugh Capet and
daughter of Hugh the Great, and had

Thierri, Duke of Lorraine, Count de Bar; died 1026;
married Richilde and had

Adele, who married Waleran, le Vieux, Count d'Arlon
(ped. 69).

71

Theodiric, le Valiant, Count of Alsatia and Duke of
Lorraine, t died 11 15 (ped. 58) ; married Gertrudis, daugh-
ter of Robert, Friso, Count of Flanders (ped. 42), and
had

Theodoric of Alsatia, Seigneur de Bitche, Count of
Flanders; died 1168; married Sibylle, called also Mabirie,
daughter of Foulques V, Count d'Anjou, King of Jeru-
salem (ped. 72), and had

Mathieu of Alsace, Count de Boulogne; died 11 73
{UArt. xii, 356); married Marie, daughter of Stephen,
Count of Mortain and Boulogne, King of England, and

*UArt. XIII, 428, 386.
iL'Art. xiii, 305.

124 VAN CULEMBORG

Mathilde, daughter of Eustache III, Count of Boulogne
{L'Art. XII, 354; VII, 90), and had

Mathilde, who married Henry I, Duke of Brabant,
etc. (ped. 68).

72

FouLQUES II, le Bon, Count d'Anjou,* died 958 (ped.
47); married Gerberge and had

Geoffroi I, Grisegonelle, Senechal of France, Count
d'Anjou; died 987; married Adelaide and had

FouLQUES III, called Nerra, or le Noir, and le Jeros-
olymitain and le Palmier, Count d'Anjou; died 1040;
married Hildegarde, or Hermengarde, and had

Hermengarde, who married Geoffrey Ferreol, called
also Alberic, Count de Chateau-Landon, or de Gatinais,
son of Geoffrey Forole, Count, etc., and Beatrix, daughter
of Alberic II, Count de Macon (ped. 73), and had

FouLQUES IV, le Rechin, or le Querelleur, Count
d'Anjou; died 1109; married Bertrade, daughter of
Simon I, Seigneur de Montfort I'Amauri (ped. 76), and
had

FouLQUES V, le Jeune, Count d'Anjou, King of Jerusa-
lem; died 1 142; married Ermebruge, or Ermentrude,
called also Ginberge, daughter and heiress of Helie, Count
de Maine (ped. 78), and had

SiBYELLE, who married Theodoric d'Alsace, Count of
Flanders (ped. 71).

73

Mayeul, Vicomte de Narbonne,t living 911 (L'Art. ix,
453) ; married Rainoldis and had

Alberic I, Vicomte de Narbonne, Count of Macon;
died 942; married Tolosane, or Etolane, daughter and
heiress of Raculfe, Vicomte de Macon (ped. 74), and had

* L'Art. XIII, 43; Anderson, 491; Betham, 605.
^LArt. XI, 12.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 125

Letalde I, Count de Macon, Count of Burgundy;
died 971; married Ermengarde, daughter of Manasies de
Vergi and Ermengarde, and had

Alberic II, Count of Macon and Burgundy; died
975; married Ermentrude, daughter of Renaud, Count de
Rouci (ped. 75), and had

Beatrix, who married Geoffrey I, called Forole, Count
de Gatinais (ped. 72).

74

Bernard, Plantevelue, Count d'Auvergne,* died 886;
(L'Art. X, 126); married Hermengarde and had

Raculfe, Vicomte de Macon, living 920, who had

Etolane, or ToLOSANE, who married Alberic I, Vi-
comte de Narbonne and Coimt de Macon (ped. 73).

75

Renaud, or Ragenolde,! Count of Reims, Count de
Rouci, died 973 ; married Alberade, daughter of King
Louis d'Outre-mer and Gerberga, widow of Gilbert, Duke
of Lorraine, sister of Otto and daughter of Henry Auceps
the Emperor, and had

Ermentrude, who married Alberic II, Count de
Macon (ped. 73).

76

Amauri I, Seigneur de Montfort-l'Amaurif (said to be
descended from Baldwin, Bras-de-fer, Count of Flanders,
and his wife Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald), had

William, Count in Hainault, who married the heiress
of Montfort and d'Epemou, who died 1003, and had

Amauri II, Baron Montfort and Epemon; living 1053;
married Bertrade, or Berteis, and had

*L'Art. XI, II, 12.
^LArt. XII, 280.
XLArt. XI, 471.

126 VAN CULEMBORG

Simon I, Baron de Montf ort-l' Amauri ; died 1087;
married Agnes, daughter of Richard, Count d'Evreux
(ped. 77), and had

Bertrade, who married Geoffrey, le Rechin, Count
d'Anjou (ped. 72).

77

Regnald, le Riche* a Danish Count, married Hilder,
daughter of Harolft Nesio, and had

RoLLO, called Bygot also Raoul, Rou and Ro, after-
wards called Robert, first Duke of Normandy, when he
was baptized; died 917; married Poppa, daughter of
Berenger, Count of Bayeux, and had

William I, Longue-epee, Duke of Aquitain and Nor-
mandy; died 942 ; married Sphortha, daughter of Hubert,
Count of Senlis, and had

Richard, Sans-peur, Duke of Normandy; died 996;
married Gunnonis, or Gunilda, a Dane, and had

Robert I, Count d'Evreux, and Archbishop of Rouen;
died 1037 {L'Art. xii, 466); married Harleve and had

Richard, Count d'Evreux; died 1067; married Adele,
widow of Roger, Seigneur de Toeni and de Conches, and
had

Agnes, who married Simon I, Seigneur de Montfort
r Amauri (ped. 76).

78

Landri Sore,! allied to the Royal House of France,
living 1000, had

Lancelin I, called also Landri I, first hereditary
Seigneur de Baugenci; died 1060; married Paule, daugh-
ter of Herbert Eveille-Chien, Count of Maine (ped. 79),
and had

* L'Art. XIII, i; Anderson, 490; Betham, 603.
^LArt. XII, 527.

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Jean de Baugenci, Seigneur de la Fleche, who had

Helie, Count of Maine; died mo {L'Art. xiii, 97);
married Mathilde, daughter and heiress of Gervais,
Seigneur de Chateau-du-Loir, du Mayet, Luce and
d'Oise, and had

Eremburge, or Ermentrude, called also Guiburge,
who married Foulques V, Count d'Anjou (ped. 72).

79

David, Seigneur de Maine,* had

HuGUES I, Count de Maine; died 1015; who had

Herbert I, called Eveille-Chien, Count de Maine; died
1036; who had

Paule, who married Lancelin, Sire de Baugenci (ped.

78).

80

Jan, the first owner of the land of Arkel.f came into
the Netherlands under the leadership of Puppy n van
Herstal, Duke of Brabant, in the service of Dagobert,
King of the French, son of Lotharis, in 641 and 642, and
conquered the Frisians and Saxons and helped capture
the strong Fortress of Wiltenburg, now Utrecht, and
which King Dagobert gave van Arkel the use of and also
gave him free ownership of a large tract of land situated
between the rivers Lek and Waal, on the river de Linge,
with everything belonging thereto (on which account
Hoveus, Abbot of Egmont, in his chronicles, says that
the Lords van Arkel, a whole century before the first
Count Diderik's arrival, possessed a large part of Hol-
land), where Jan van Arkel built a church upon the site

*L'Art. XIII, 86.

fVan der Aa's Biog. Diet, and genealogy of the family in
Adelyk en Aanzienelyk Wapen-Boek van de Zeven Provincien,
by Abraham Ferwerda, Leeuwarden, 1777; Illustrata Batavia.
See arms in van Culemborg pedigree (ped i).

128 VAN CULEMBORG

where the Romans formerly had their camp and built
a temple in honor of Hercules, from which it is supposed
that this district received the name of Erkel or Arkel,
the H being omitted or being aspirate. But some years
later the Frisians, Danes and Normans, having attacked
these lands again, burned the church, destroyed van
Arkel's property and dispersed his subjects so that he
fled to France and remained at Pierrepont where he died,
leaving a son

Heyman van Arkel, who also died at Pierrepont and
who had by his wife a son

Jan van Arkel, who built there a strong fortress
which was destroyed by Brancion, brother of Lord van
Baar, and on which account he was killed by van Arkel.
As Brancion was related to Diderik III, King of France,
van Arkel fled with his wife Elsebeen to the land of
Arkel and, in 694, had the church rebuilt, which in 697
was consecrated by Bishop Sigibert. He and his wife
died at Arkel and were buried there, leaving a son

Heyman van Arkel, who married Tekla, daughter of
WoUebrand, son of the first Lord of Egmont. Heyman
van Arkel first served under Pepin, King of France, and
later Emperor Charles the Great, his son, and was killed
in 783, in his old age, in a conflict with the heathen
Saxons on the river Elve, having had by his wife, a son

Jan van Arkel, who held high service under the
Emperor Charles the Great in the war against the West-
phalians in 798, and later served under Emperor Louis
the Good. He died in 856 and was buried at Ingelheim
near Mentz on the Rhine. He had one son

Heyman van Arkel, Knight, first courtier of Em-
peror Louis and afterwards chamberlain of the Duke of
Loterik. He married Helena, a lord's daughter from
France, and died at an advanced age in 915 at Man-
derscheyt near Trier where he was buried. His elder son

Fop van Arkel, was killed in the battle which Louis
IV, King of France, waged against Hendrik den Vogeler,

ALLIED ANCESTRY 129

Catholic King, for the possession of Lotherig in 935, and
was buried in St. Nafarius Church in Lorraine. His son

Heyman, first Lord van Arkel, whom the Emperor
Otto the Great sent with a large body of men to Neder-
saxen, now East Friesland, from which place he carried
away Silla, daughter of Tielman, the Governor there,
without her father's knowledge, and fled with her to
Holland and married her. He was well received by
Count Diderik H who made him his Steward or, ac-
cording to others, his Stadhouder of Friesland and con-
firmed to him the lands of Arkel which King Dagobert
had given his father, and where he continued to reside,
as did also his descendants, and where he died in 980, or,
according to others in 990, and according to A. Kemp,
in 996. His elder son

Foppo, Lord van Arkel, died in 1008. He married
Maria, daughter of Lord van Oyen (or Ooy), of the
Betuwe, by whom he had a son

Jan I, Lord van Arkel, who lived during the early part
of the eleventh century. During the reign of Dirk HI,
Count of Holland, he took part with the Count against
Adelbold, Bishop of Utrecht, who was defeated June
9, 10 10, between Bodegraven and Zwammerdam and
July 29, of the same year, near Bodegraven. He also
accompanied the Count to the Holy Land where he died
in a battle against the Saracens in 1034 or 1035. By
his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Willem, Count van
Cuijk, on the Maas, he left a son

Jan II, Lord van Arkel, who, after having built the little
city of Huelkelum, together with the villages Spijk and
Dalem, followed Robert de Vries, who at that time gov-
erned in Holland, to the Holy Land, where he fought
valiantly against the infidels for eight years; returning
he joined Robert de Vries and his son-in-law Dirk V,
Count of Holland, in 1076, in a war against Coenraad,
twenty-second Bishop of Utrecht, and helped besiege the
fortress at Ysselmonde, where he was fatally injured and

130 VAN CULEMBORG

died January 7, 1077. He married Margaretha, daughter
of Jan, Lord van Altena, and had by her Jan (who fol-
lows), Johanna, who married Robert, Lord van Heusden,
and another daughter, whose name is not found recorded
but who married Gerrit, Lord van Teilingen.

Jan III, Lord van Arkel, went to the Holy Land in
1096, and on this expedition, being obliged to stop at
Venice to wait for favorable winds, hung his arms out-
side the inn where he was stopping, according to the cus-
tom. A nobleman from Hungary, who bore the same
arms, seeing this, took the arms down, whereupon van
Arkel quarreled with him and they fought a duel in
which van Arkel held the upper hand but spared the
other's life so that they parted as good friends. Re-
suming his journey he assisted in the occupancy of
Nicea, Tarsus and Antioch and finally, in 1099, Jerusalem.
After having been made a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre,
he turned back to his native land, old and broken down,
and died in Straatsburg in 11 17. By his wife Aleida, a
daughter of Jan, Lord van Heusden (ped. 81), he left
three sons, the eldest of whom was

Jan IV, Lord van Arkel, who went to the Holy Land
in 1 1 24, and while there was made a Knight of the Holy
Sepulchre. Upon his return home he, with his brother
Hugo, Lord of Bottersloot, went to the assistance of
Count Dirk VI. (of Holland) against the West Fries-
landers, whom he twice helped to defeat. When later, in
1 138, Otto, Count of Benthem, after having plundered the
provinces of Twenthe, was taken captive in battle by
Herbert, the twenty-sixth Bishop of Utrecht, and Dirk
VI, Count of Holland, who was Otto's brother-in-law, ad-
vanced to deliver him, Jan van Arkel helped him be-
siege Utrecht, which siege, however, was lifted when the
Bishop threatened the besiegers with excommunica-
tion. After making another expedition to the Holy
Land he joined, in 1143, in the war between Lords of
Grimbergen and the guardians of Godefried III, Duke
of Brabant, in which he took sides with the former, but

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fell in a battle in 1144, which took place near the Three
Fountains (Drie Fonteinen), not far from Brussels.
He married Petronella, daughter of Lord van der Are,
by whom he had as eldest son

JoHAN V, Lord van Arkel, Knighted in the Holy
Land where he died in 1 1 76 ; married Geertruyt, daughter
of Lord van Loon and Steenvorden, and had one son

JoHAN VI, Lord van Arkel, who, in 11 80, accompanied
Floris HI, Count of Holland, to the Holy Land where,
like his ancestors, he was made a Knight of the Holy
Sepulchre by Filips, Count of Flanders. He returned
home, but went to the Holy Land again in 1188 and was
present at the siege and capture of Damietta. Having
marched against Rudolf, Burgrave of Koeverden, with
Otto n van der Lippe, thirty-fourth Bishop of Utrecht,
he fell together with the Bishop, in the battle near Ane,
not far from Grimsbergen August i, 1227. He married
Margaretha, daughter of Lord Baldwin van Nyenoven (or
Nivelles?), younger brother of (Philips?) Count of
Flanders, by whom he had a son

JoHAN Vn, Lord van Arkel and Lord of Asperen and
Heukelom, who laid the first foundations of the city of
Gorinchem. He also selected the village of Schelluynen
and died in 1243, having married Maria, daughter of
Count van Vernenburg, whose wife was a daughter of
Otto, Count of Benthem (ped. 94), son of Diderik,
Count of Holland, by whom he had a son

Jan Vni, Lord van Arkel, called the Strong on account
of his strength, and of whom it is said that while sitting
upon a horse and placing his arms around a beam over-
head he could lift the horse from the ground. He was
founder of Gorinchem and died in 1234 in battle against
the Stadingers. He married Bertha, daughter of Lord
van Oethem, by whom he had as elder son

Jan IX, Lord van Arkel, who, in 1282, assisted Floris
V, Count of Holland, in fighting against the West Fries-
landers to avenge the death of the Count's father. He

132 VAN CULEMBORG

attended, Jan I, Duke of Brabant, at the battle of
Woeringen on June 6, 12S8, against Reinald I, Duke of
Gelders. In recognition of his services to both princes
the citizens of Gorinchem were declared free from all
taxation, both on water and on land, throughout all
Brabant, Holland and Zeeland. Later he assisted Jan I,
Count of Holland, to make war against the West Fries-
landers, but died in a battle which took place April 2,
1297, near the village of Voorne. By his wife Bertha,
daughter of Gerrit, Lord van Sterkenburg, he had

Geertruida van Arkel, who married Huibert, Lord
van Culemborg (ped. i).

81

Robert, Count of Teisterbant* and Count of Hoey
by virtue of his marriage with the Countess of Hoey,
had by her

Lodewyk, Count of Teisterbant.

Robert, first Lord van Heusden (who follows).

Dirk, first Lord van Altena.

Robert, first Lord van Heusden, died in 857 in
Brabant where he had fled with his family on account of
the Northmen or Norsemen having destroyed his fortress
at Heusden; married Ada, daughter of Henrick, Count
van Kuyk, by whom he had

BouDEWYN II, Lord van Heusden, who married
Sophia, daughter of Edmond, King of England {Slich-
tenhorst, 39, and UArt. vii, 69). To Boudewyn is attri-
buted the building of the towns of Pouderoyen, Brakel
and Aelst. He died, it is said by Slichtenhorst, in 870,
and his wife in 890, and both were buried at Oud-Heusden.
(As Edmond became King in 940 and died 946 the dates
given by Slichtenhorst are incorrect, or else Sophia was
not King Edmond's daughter. SHchtenhorst, 39, says

*Slichtenhorst's History of Gelderland, 61.

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she is also said by some to have been daughter of Elderick.)
They had

Edmond, who died in England.

Robert (who follows).

Robert II, Lord van Heusden, was Knighted in the
Holy Land and died in 914, although other authorities
say 907, 908 and 909; married AdeUieid, daughter of
Herman, Count of Zutphen {Slichtenhorst, 58), by whom
he had

Edmond, fourth Lord van Heusden, who married
Hildegond, daughter of the Count of Sein in Germany,
and died in 929; their only son

Jan, Lord van Heusden, married Margriet, daughter
of Count van Loon in the country of Luyk; died 956;
their son

Robert III, Lord van Heusden, was founder of the
towns of Harpt, Vlymen and Hedichuysen; married
Geertruyt, Countess of Spanheim in Upper Germany;
died in 972; their son

BouDEWYN III, Lord van Heusden, who married Alyt,
daughter of Lord van Gennep; died in 1028; their son

Jan II, Lord van Heusden, was founder of the town
of Hemert; married Mechteld or Margriet, daughter
of Lord van Stein voort, and died in 1079 (some say
1073) i their daughter

Alyt married Jan III, Lord van Arkel (ped. 80).

82

WoLFGERUs,* Schultetus or Schout (Sheriff) of Amstel,
mentioned 1105 to 1126, was father of

Egbert, first Lord van Amstel, mentioned 1131 to
1 1 72; father of

* Histoire der Heeren van Amstel, van Ysselstein en van
Mynden, by W. A. van Spaen, The Hague, 1807.

134 VAN CULEMBORG

Gysbrecht I, Lord van Amstel, mentioned 1170 to
1 1 78; father of

Gysbrecht (who follows).

Egbert, who was father of Badeloge who married
Willem I, Lord van Egmond (ped. 21).

Gysbrecht II, Lord van Amstel, Knight, mentioned
1200 to 1228; father of

Gysbrecht III, Lord van Amstel, Knight, mentioned
i23otoi25i; father of

Arnoud van Amstel, Lord van Ysselstein, Knight,
who died 1291,* who, by his wife Johanna had

Gysbrecht, Lord van Ysselstein, Knight, who died
1344; married Beerta, daughter of Otto van Arkel,
Lord van Heukelom (ped. 83), by whom he had

Arnoud, Lord van Ysselstein, Knight, who died 1363 ;
married Maria, daughter of Guido van Avesnes and
van Henegouwen, Bishop of Utrecht (ped. 23), by whom
he had

Guyotte, Lady van Ysselstein, heiress of her father,
who married Jan, Lord van Egmond, who died 1369
(ped. 21).

83

Jan VIII, Lord van Arkelf (ped. 80), and his wife
Bertha van Gethem had

Jan IX, Lord van Arkel (ped. 80).
Otto (who follows).

*Rietstap: van Amstel d' Ysselstein. Pays d' Utrecht. D'or
a la fasce de sable, au sautoir echiquete d' argent et de gueules,
brochant sur le tout. Casque courrone. Cimier, le sautoir de
I'ecusson, entre un vol a Vantique de sable et d'or; ou une cuve
d'argent charge de deux pals de gueules; ou de gueules charge
de deux pals d'argent, remplie de plumes de coq de sable; ou une
cuve echiquete de gueules et d'argent, remplie de cinq plumes
d'autruche de sable.

fSame authority as ped. 80.

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Otto van Arkel, second son, had as his patrimony
the manors of Heukelom, Asperen, Lyenburg and Accoy;
mentioned in Dordrecht in 131 1; married the daughter
of Lord Jan van Heusden (ped. 84) and his wife Catharina,
daughter of Count van Loon, by whom he had

A daughter sumamed van Heukelom who married
Gysbrecht van Ysselstein (ped. 82).

84

Jan II, Lord van Heusden* (ped. 81), and his wife
Mechteld or Margriet, daughter of Lord van Steinvoort,
had

Alyt, who married Jan III, Lord van Arkel (ped. 80).
Robert (who follows).

Robert IV, Lord van Heusden, died 1092 ; married
Johanna, daughter of Jan, Lord van Altena, by whom
he had

Boudewyn IV, Lord van Heusden, died mo; mar-
ried Bertrand, daughter of Count van der Lippe, by
whom he had

Jan III, Lord van Heusden, who died 1135; married
Lady Christina, daughter of Lord van Arentsberg, by
whom he had

Arent, Lord van Heusden, died in 11 68; married
Maria van Salm (in Lorraine) by whom he had

Jan IV, Lord van Heusden, accompanied Duke
Henrick of Brabant to the Holy Land where he was
knighted; died 1192; married Lucia, daughter of Lord
van Hoern, by whom he had

Robert V, fifteenth Lord van Heusden, died 1202;
married Philippoot, daughter of Lord van Diest in
Brabant, by whom he had

*Same authority as ped. 81.

136 VAN CULEMBORG

Jan V, Lord van Heusden, died 1235 and was buried
at Aix-la-Capelle ; married Countess van Vernenburg by
whom he had

Jan VI, Lord van Heusden, was knighted in the
Holy Land and died 1279; married Catharina, Countess
van Loon, by whom he had

Aert, Lord van der Sluys, Knight (ped. 90).

Daughter, married Otto van Arkel (ped. 83).

85

Pelgrim van Holland, Burgrave of Zeeland,* younger
brother of Floris HI, Count of Holland (ped. 54), was
the first Lord van Voorne about the year 1140, and had,
as appears from several old manuscripts, as wife, the
daughter of Count van der Lippe, of Germany, by whom
he had

Floris van Voorne, as appears from aforesaid manu-
scripts (although mentioned by Gouthoven with his
brother Diderik as sons of the aforesaid Count Diderik
van Sein), was Lord van Voorne and Burgrave of Zee-
land, from the year 11 62 until 1203, when he died leaving

Hugo van Voorne, Burgrave of Zeeland for 45 years
until the year 1248 when he died; gave great assistance
to Count Lodewijk van Loon in the war against Count
Willem of Holland, but fruitlessly; married the daughter
of Count van Kuyk op de Maze (on the Maas), and had

Hendrik van Voorne, Burgrave of Zeeland for 32
years mentioned in a charter of King William, Count
of Holland, in 1252; died in 1280; married the daughter
of Nicholaas van Borssele in Zeeland, who later married
Wolphart van Borssele, Lord van der Veere; by first
marriage they had

A daughter who married Huibert van Culemborg
(ped. i).

*Batavia Illustrata, by S. van Leeuwen, 1685, 1140.

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86

Gouthoven* in his Chronicle, page 125, says that the
first Lord van der Lecke must have been a younger
brother of the second Lord van Brederode which, if
true, then Siphrid must have had three sons, for it is
certain that the van Teilingen family descends from
Simon, a younger brother of Diderik, Lord van Brederode.

Of this branch was mentioned Hendricus de Lecke,
Knight, a diplomat in the year 1097.

.... VAN DER Lecke mentioned with other prominent
nobles in the Lower German Year Book of 1141.

Hendrik van der Lecke, mentioned in 1277, married
Judith, daughter of Peter van Borssele, by whom he had
a daughter Marie who married Dirk de Goedertierene {the
Merciful), Lora van Brederode, son of Willem van Bred-
erode and the daughter of Lord van Voorne, who brought
him the manor of Lecke, which later went to Jan van
Duvenvoorde, Lord van Polanen, about 1360, in conse-
quence of his marriage to Catherine van Brederode; in
1404 Jenne van Polanen, heiress van der Lecke, den
Berg, Breda, Oosterhout, Rosendaal and Steenbergen
brought the manor to the House of Nassau by her mar-
riage to Engelbregt, Count of Nassau, Stadtholder of
Brabant.

PiETER VAN DER Lecke, Lord of the manors of Brant-
wijk and Gijbland, which he sold in 1325 to Pieter van
den Damme, Vincent's son at Dordrecht, was still living
in 1345; by his wife, of the House of Wassenaar, he
had

Judith, who married Huibert IV, seventh Lord van
Culemborg, Knight, who, in 1347, in the battle against
the Leigoeis was killed; leaving nine children, since
which time the Lords van Culemborg have quartered
their coat of arms with that of van der Lecke (ped. i).

*Batavia Illustrata, 1000.

138 VAN CULEMBORG

87

WiLLEM VAN WijE, Esquirc (Armiger), with consent
of his wdfe Goetsuwe sells property at Echtelt to the
Chapter 13 12; Tinsgenoot at Echtelt 1320; has property
to collect at Lier of St. Catharyn's at Utrecht 1326;
Tinsrichter 1329.* Their son

WiLLEM VAN WijE, Esquirc, called the Young, was
Justiciary (gerichtsman) in Lower Betuwe 1329; received
property in ground rent from the Chapter 1351; dead in
1384 (Rhemen says his wife was surnamed Heuckelum).
They had

Lord Johan van Wije Willemszoon, Knight (who

follows) .
Otto van Wije, who was dead in 1384.
Wilhelmina van Wije, who ceded the inheritance

from her brother Otto to Claes van Wije 1384.
Heinerich van Wije Willemszoon, who became rec-
onciled with the City of Utrecht 136 1.
Geertruit van Wije (mentioned by Rhemen, who
says that she married Joachim van Haemen,
BaiHff (Drost) at Lede, whose mother was Freys
van Cuynre),

Lord Johan van Wije Willemszoon, Knight, sealed
with others the marriage conditions of Duke Eduard
of Gelders 1368; with Claes van der Weghen he rented
the tithes at Echtelt for ten years in 1348. Rhemen says
that with his wife Hille van der Rivyre he founded

* Mss. pedigree of the van Wije or Wijhe family of Echtelt, in
possession of the Council of the Nobility of The Hague, which
is followed except when reference is made to the Mss. pedigree
of the same family by Stephen a Rhemen, of the i6th century,
in possession of the Municipal Archives at Arahem.

In the pedigrees referred to the arms described similarly to
the description given by Rietstap : Wijhe d'Eshtelt, Fride. {Ren.
du litre de baron du St. Empire, 15 jun. 1742). D' argent seme
de hillette d'azur; au lion de gueules, courrone d'or, hrochant sur
le tout. Casque courrone. Cimier, le lion, issuant. Lambre-
quins, d'argent et de gueules.

ERRATA.
Ped. 5. Charlemagne is repeated by mistake.

Ped. 28. Insert le Justicier after Richard, Duke of Burgundy,
who died 921.

Ped. 32. Mathilde Billung by her second marriage with
Godefroi, Count de Verdun, had Herman, Count de Verdun,
who died 1034.

Ped. 35. Ricuinus, Duke on the Moselle, died 94s, not 928.

Ped. 37

mentioned in ped. 35.

Ped. 43
Ped. 76
Ped. 87

After Felicitas insert Sadtgerus and Raginerus,

Ethicus, Duke of Alsatia, died 6qo, not 220.

Bertrade married Foulques IV, not Geoffrey.

Issue of Jorden van Wije and Johanna van Groes-
beeck should be :

Johan, eldest son. Canon at Elst.
Otto (who follows).

Claes, who received an inheritance at Ysendoorn 1408.
Johan, mentioned 1407 ; married and (according to Rhemen)
had

Jorden, who had

Johan, who married Sophie van Varick, Jan's sister,
and had

Johan, on the Keyserstraat in a garrisoned place

at Arnhold.
Sophie, who married a van Dalen, of Haemet.

138 VAN CULEMBORG

87

WiLLEM VAN WijE, Esquire (Armiger), with consent
of his wile Goetsuwe sells property at Echtelt to the
Chapter 13 12; Tinsgenoot at Echtelt 1320; has property
to collect at Lier of St. Catharyn's at Utrecht 1326;
Tinsrichter 1329.* Their son

WiLLEM VAN WijE, Esquirc, called the Young, was
Justiciary (gerichtsman) in Lower Betuwe 1329; received
property in ground rent from the Chapter 13 51; dead in
1384 (Rhemen says his wife was surnamed Heuckelum).
They had

Lord Johan van Wije Willemszoon, Knight (who

quins, a argeni ei ae guemes.

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a vicarage at Echtelt with sacramental altar. They
had

Otto van Wije who married Ida, daughter of . . . .van
Kinder en ( ?) and .... Dornick. (This generation and
marriage are omitted in the pedigree at The Hague and
Lord Johan is given as father of Jorden who follows.)
They had

Herman van Wye, Knight.

Jorden van Wye, Knight (who follows).

Lord Jorden van Wije, Knight, was already mar-
ried in 1372; made his peace with Jan van Chastillon
and wife Mechteld of Gelders and is placed after Mr.
(Lawyer) Walrave van Wijhe 1376; in the Knighthood
of Gelders 1377 ; ratified with others the Peace of Gelders
1379; witnessed the reconciliation of Floran, Bishop of
Utrecht, and Evart van Essen 1380; Councillor of
Duke Willem of Gelders 1392; also in 1394 and 1395;
but is not mentioned as the Chief Councillor of Duke
Reynold 1402 ; enfeoffed with the titles of Heusden 1405;
dead in 141 1; married 1372, Johanna, daughter of Zeger
van Groesbeek (ped. 88) and his wife, sumamed van der
Straeten. She is mentioned in a postponement of mort-
gage 141 1. After her father's death she was enfeoffed
with the titles of Werkendam 1413. She was present
at the marriage of her granddaughter Amolda and was
called Lady van Wije 1423. She received the usufruct
of 25 shields from her brother Johan van Groesbeek
1424. She and her husband Lord Jorden van Wije
had

Johan van Wije, eldest son, Canon at Elst; men-
tioned 1437. Rhemen adds the following of him and
his descendants : he had a son
Jorden, who had a son

Johan, married Sophie van Varick, Jan's sister,
by whom he had

Johan, on the Keyserstraat in a garrisoned
place at Arnhold.
Sophie, married a van Dalen, of Haemet.

140 VAN CULEMBORG

Otto van Wije (who follows).

Claes van Wy Jordenszoon, who received an in-
heritance at Ysendoorn 1408.

Johan van Wije Jordenszoon, mentioned 1407; mar-
ried

Otto van Wijhe mortgaged property in Upper
Betuwe of the Duke of Gelders 1397; enfeoffed with the
Haajakerskamp 1406; received the Hove Akerskamp at
Echtelt in lease 1401; had a difference with Willem van
Isendoom 1408; marriage friend of Elsabi van Echtelt
1 41 6; made a magescheid with his mother, the Lady van
Wijhe, 1420; first marriage friend of Johan van Brienen
1420; attended the marriage of his daughter Arnolda
1423; Thinsgenoot at Echtelt 1425; married in 1407
Ida, daughter of Johan van Brienen, de Olde (ped. 89),
by whom he had

Johan van Wije Ottoszoon.

Willem van Wije, Canon of St. Peter's at Utrecht

1423.
Jorden van Wije (who follows).
Arnolda van Wije, who married in 1423 Otto van
Echteld, her marriage friends being Johan van
Wije, Lord of Hernen, and Dirk van Wije, brothers.
Dirk van Wije Hermanszoon, Arent van Dinter
Claesz, and Arent van Zandwijk.
Hermanna van Wije, nun at Arnhem.
Jorden van Wije.

Jorden van Wije, Knight, ratified with others the
treaty of the province with the knighthood of Nymegen
1436; conveyed with his wife the oldweitschen tiend at
Cameron to her brother Wolter van Ysendoorn under
condition of return 1459; mentioned as of Echtelt in a
list of knights of 1460; married Johanna, daughter of
Willem van Ysendoorn (ped. 90) and his wife Adriana
van Brakel, 1459. They had

Otto van Wije, of Echtelt, Bailiff {Amhtman) of
Lower Betuwe 1485; mentioned as such also
1487 ; complaint made in 1488 that he perpetrated

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oppression; had a difference concerning jurisdic-
tion of his office with Willem of Gent 1488; re-
fused to appear before the Court or to leave his
house Echtelt 1489 ; wrote to the Chapter at Utrecht
that if he was excommunicated they would re-
ceive nothing from their properties and rents
there 1488; the five ecclesiastics threatened him,
the Knights and Esquires of Lower Betuwe with
excommunication 1490; became Escort of the
Bishopric 1490; he and his wife Geertruid Teng-
nagel received remission from Duke Carel, but
were forced to make their house Echtelt in feudal
tenure an open house of the Duke 1495; which
was opposed later by his son, 1539, 1544; vindi-
cated by the capitol cities in a victory 1500; ob-
tained remission from Duke Carel 15 18; ap-
pointed from the Lower Betuwe to receive the
Duchess 15 19. His wife Geertruid was daughter
of Sander (or Zander) Tengnagel and Raba van
Lennep.

Elisabeth van Wije, Abbess of Marienhorst at ter
Hunnep 1484.

Yda, married Arnt van Hessen, Lord van Hulhuisen.

Agnes van Wije, nun at Nuys.

Johanna van Wije, nun at Cologne.

Willem van Wije (who follows).

Willem van Wije* remained faithful to Duke Arnold
of Gelders 1472; Joria van Weze, wife of Wolff van de
Lauwiek, complained to the Provinces concerning an

* (His wife's name is not mentioned, but the marriage of his
daughter Berta to Melchior van Culemborg is given in the Mss.
pedigree of the van Culemborg family by A. Shoemaker, 1690,
in possession of Edwin Jaquett Sellers, of Philadelphia, the
Mss. pedigree of the van Culemborg family in possession of
the Coimcil of the Nobilty at The Hague, and also in the Mss.
pedigree of the same family by Arend van Buchell or Buchellius,
1 565-1644, in possession of E. J. Sellers, in which the arms of
van Wije of Echtelt are inserted in colors in a lozenge shaped
shield.)

142 VAN CULEMBORG

injury which she alleged Willem van Wije had done her,
in 1500. Willem van Wije had

Berta van Wije, who married Melchior van Culem-
borg (ped. i).

88

JoHAN VAN Groesbeek,* Knight, surety for the Count
of Gelders at the treaty with Utrecht in 1258; men-
tioned until 1268; father of

JoHAN VAN Groesbeek who fought, possibly as Squire,
in the battle near Woeringen in 1288; surety for Ger-
hard van Oye in 1291; father of

JoHAN VAN Groesbeek, Knight; not yet knighted,
however, in 13 18, when he appeared as witness of the
Count van Kleef; mentioned as Knight in 1325 and
repeatedly until his death in 1359; purchased the manor
Maiden in 1348 and later the manor Beek with which
he was enfeoffed in 1350; as lord of Heumen in 1358 was
enfeoffed by Emperor Charles with his ancestral court as
Groesbeek and with the waldgrafschap of the Kolwald,
already occupied by him in 1329; father of

Zeger van Groesbeek, Knight, Lord of Groesbeek,
Heumen, Maiden and Beek; not knighted in 1359 when
he was enfeoffed by the Count of Cleve with Maiden
and Beek, nor in 1366, but was Knighted in 1372 when he
renewed his feudal oath; transferred Maiden and Beek
in 1403 to his son Johan van Groesbeek, Knight, and
died shortly thereafter; married .... van der Straten,
by whom he had

* Mss. pedigree by W. A. van Spaen, Vol. iv, 63-70, at the
Council of the Nobility at The Hague.

Rietstap: van Groesbeeck. Pays de Gueldre. (Comtes,
II aout 1610 et 20 avril 1674.) D'argent d la fasce entee de
gueules. Casque courrone. Cimier, un chien issuant d' argent,
collete de la Jasce de Vecu; ou une tete et col de bouc aux armes
de Vecu, accornee d'or.

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Johanna van Groesbeek, married to Jorden van
Wijhe (ped. 87), Knight; she made an agreement with
Otto van Wijhe, in 1420, concerning the property ac-
quired by him from his sister Agnes van Wijhe; in 1424,
being a widow, received a yearly allowance from her
brother Johan van Groesbeek, Knight.

89

Ida van Brienen,* wife of Otto van Wijhe of Echteld
(ped. 87), was probably a sister of Arnt van Brienen, son
of Johan the old, who, in 1402, was enfeoffed with
Potshove at Wageningen, which property belonged, in
1326, to Johan van Brienen, gerichtman of Betuwe in
1324, mentioned also in 1336, Counsel of Count Reinald
of Gelders in 1328.

90

Rudolf de Cock, f Knight, obtained by exchange with
Count of Gelders, in 1265, Neer and Opijnen together

Pedigree at the Council of the Nobility at The Hague.

* Rietstap : van Briennen, Limbourg. D' argent a la licorne
saillante de gueules. Casque courrone. Cimier, la licorne.
Supports, deux licorne s de gueules, tenant chacun une banniere
aux armes de Vecu, futee de gueules.

^ Oordeelkundige Inleiding tot de Historic van Gelderland, by
W. A. van Spaen, Vol. Ill, 430-434, at The Hague with the
Council of the Nobility; Essay by Jhr. Baeleerts van Blokland,
entitled De Afstamming van het Geslacht van Isendoorn in
Maandblad van het Genealogischheraldiek Genootschap, De
Nederlandsche Leeuvu, 1909, col. 14-16.

Rietstap : van Waerdenburg (anciennement de Cocq van
Waerdenburg) . Gueldre. De gueules a trois pals de vair; au
chef d'or, charge d'une fleur-de-lis d'azur (souvent sans fleur-de-
lis). Cimier, une tete et col de paon au naturel.

Rietstap: Isendoorn a Blois. Gueldre. (Rec. du titre de
Baron 22 aout 1822, M. et v. g dec. 1865.) De gueules a trois
pals de vair; au chef d'or. Casque courrone. Cimier, un lion
rampant de gueules, accostee de deux flambeaux de sable, viroles
d'or, allumes du meme. Lambrequins, d'or, de gueules et d'azur.
Supports, deux lions au naturel.

144 VAN CULEMBORG

with Hiem, where he later built the castle Waerdenburg.
His son

Rudolf de Cock Waerdenburg, Knight, mentioned
in 1265, when his father sold the castle Renooi; purchased
Isendoom in 1281; died 13 15; married as second wife
Margaretha van Batenburg by whom he had,

WiLLEM DE Cock van Isendoorn, Knight, who was
dead in 13 18, as his widow Mabelia van Arkel agreed
with her brother-in-law Gerard van Waerdenburg, Lord
of Puffelik, regarding the guardianship of her son Willem
van Isendoorn, about four years of age; she was still
living in 1335. They had

Willem van Isendoorn, Knight, minor in 13 18; not
knighted in 1332, but in 1335; married Arnolda, daugh-
ter of Wolter van Keppel, Knight (ped. 91), and of Ju-
dith van der Sluyse (ped. 92), who appears as his wife in
1330; last mentioned in 1359 as witness to the peace
between Gelders and Cleve. Their son,

Alard van Isendoorn ratified the landerede of 1377
and is mentioned until 1396; married Folcwive van
Druten who is mentioned, as widow, with her children in
1414. Their son,

Willem van Isendoorn is mentioned in the diet at
Mynegen 1436; lived at the court at Isendoorn and in
1427 took a waard (drained lake) at Isendoorn in ground
rent from his nephew (or cousin) Willem, Lord van
Isendoorn, Knight; mentioned from 141 2 to 1441 and
married in 141 8 Adriana, daughter of Johan van Brakel
(ped. 93) and Johanna van Vianen van Bloemenstein
(ped. 94), who died between the years 1424 and 1429,
after which he remarried in 143 1 Adriana, daughter of
Gijsbert de Cock van Neerynen and.... van Haeften.
By the first marriage he had,

Johanna van Isendoorn, mentioned in 1437, who
married Jorden van Wijhe of Echteld, 1459 (ped.

87).

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91

Walter, Lord van Keppel,* mentioned in 1200,
married. . . .van Meurs, and had

Dirk, Lord van Keppel, who married Beatrix (van
Aeswyn?), and had

Walter, Lord van Keppel, Knight, who was Coun-
cillor of Count Reinald I and of his son Reinald II;
appeared as a witness in various transactions of theirs
and, at their request, attached his seal to certain of their
alliances and engagements; in 1307 he renewed the oath
of vassalage to the Count of Cleve and, in 1323, was
enfeoffed with the tithes under Hummen and Dremth
while the manor Keppel received distinct privileges ; died
1330; established several altars and vicarages; married
Judith van der Sluys (ped. 92) (Van der Aa's Biog.
Diet.) and had

Arnolda van Keppel, who married William van
Isendoorn (ped. 90).

92

Jan IV, Lord van Heusden (ped. 85), married Catha-
rina, Countess van Loon, and had

Aert (Arnold), Lord van der Sluys, Knight, who
married Agnes, and had

Judith van der Sluys, who married Walter van
Keppel (ped. 91).

93

EusTACHius van BRAKELf had

* Rietstap : van Keppel, Gueldre. {Rec. du titre de baron,
3 fev. 1875.) De gueules a trois coquilles d'argent. Casque
courrone du meme. Cimier, un cygne d' argent, becque de gueules.
Supports, deux leopards lionnes d'or.

t Rietstap: van Brakell, Gueldre. {Admis. au corps equestre
de Gueldre, 28 aout, 7 oct. et g Dec. 1814; rec. titre de baron, 22
Feb., i8j2.) De gueules a deux saumons adosses d'argent,
accompagne de neuf croix recroisette au pied fiche d'or. Casque
d'or. Cimier, un aigle issuant d'or, languee et de gueules.
Lambrequins, d'or et de gueules. Supports, deux lions d'or,
lampasse de gueules. (Dans I'origine cette famille portait
lesdites amies sans croisettes, et une branche, qui s'etait etabilie
en Hollande, portait au lieu des croisettes, neuf trefles de sinople.)

146 VAN CULEMBORG

Steeskinus van Brakel, who married . . . .Utengoye,
and had

JoHAN VAN Brakel, who married. . . .van Waerden-
burg, who had

JoHAN VAN Brakel, who married Agnes, and had

Johan VAN Brakel, who married Johanna van Vyanen
van Bloemenstein, dau. of Jan van Vyanen van Bloemen-
stein (ped. 91), and had

Adriana van Brakel,* who married William van
Isendoorn (ped. 90).

94

Hubert van CuLEMBORcf known as "Hubert van
Bosichem, Lord van Culemborg, Knight," (ped. i),
married Johanna, daughter of Zweer, Lord van Zuilen.
Their younger son

ZwEER VAN Culemborg received the manor of Vyanen
and thereupon assumed the name of Vyanen and became
the first lord of that name; married the daughter of
Lord van der Leede; built a castle about 12 13; fell in
1234 in the war in the vicinity of Bremen and Staden;
they had

Gijsbert van Vyanen (who follows).
Hendrik van Vyanen who was Bishop of Utrecht for
15 years and died 1267; previously was Provost
of the Cathedral of Cologne; had the castle of
Vredeland built and founded a college of twelve
canons, about 1262, at Steenwijk.

Gijsbert van Vyanen died about 1265; married the
daughter of Jan, fifth Lord van Heusden (ped. 84), and
his wife who was daughter of Count van Vernenburg,
and had

*The Keppel and Brakel lines are from the Mss. pedigrees
in possession of the Council of the Nobility at The Hague.
1[ Batavia Illustrata, 1142.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 147

Hugh van Vyanen who was killed in 1302 by the
French in the bloody battle of Cortrijk together with
the Count van Oostervant, brother of the Count of
Holland, having been hit by a poisoned arrow; was
buried at Axel in Flanders; married Mabelia, daughter
of Sweer van Abcoude, who lived to be very old and died
in 1342, by whom he had

Hubert van Vyanen (who follows).

.... van Vyanen, who married Jacob van Ligten-
berg, Knight, at Utrecht, and had an heiress who
was Lady van Rienouwen and who married
Johan, son of Jan van Renesse and the daughter
of Lord van Maalstede, by whom she had,

Johan van Renesse, Lord van Reinouwen,
Hellenburg, Baarland, Stuvelant, Baken-
dorp and Lichtenberg, whose wife was daugh-
ter of Otto van Arkel, Lord ven Heukelom.
.... van Renesse, married .... van Praat,

Knight.
. . . .van Renesse, married Gerard de Her-
laar. Lord van Pouderojen.

Hubert van Vyanen, Lord van Vyanen and Lex-
monde, was mentioned in 1307; died in 1361; married,
first, the daughter of Lord van Langerak in Holland;
married, second, a sister of Jacob van Ligtenberg, afore-
said. By his first wife he had

Sweer (who follows).

Class, mentioned with his brother Steven and his
sister Catharine van Vyanen in 1326.

Steven.

Catharine.

Sweer van Vyanen, Knight, had the parochial church
at Vyanen built which formerly was only a chapel belong-
ing under Hagestein. Gouthoven mentions that his
three brothers were Wouter van Bloemenstein, anno
1339, Sweer van Bloemenstein, anno 1323, who had Jan
van Bloemenstein, anno 1359, who was father of Sweer
van Bloemenstein, Knight, anno 1485; also Wouter van

148 VAN CULEMBORG

Bloemendaal, Knight, anno 1320. Sweer van Vyanen
had as wife the heiress of Lord van der Goye and van
Beverwaarde in Gelderland, Burgrave of Utrecht; died
anno 1346.

Sweer van Bloemenstein* (previously mentioned),
anno 1323, had

Jan van Bloemenstein, anno 1359. Illustrata Bata-
via, 1 193: "Jan van Bloemenstein, in 1350, was on the
side of Willem of Bavaria, Count of Holland, against
Margaretha his mother; it is, therefore, assumed that
he is the same who in 1353, with Willem of Bavaria,
declared war against the Bishop of Utrecht." Jan van
Bloemenstein had

Johanna van Bloemenstein who married Johan van
Brakel (ped. 93).

The foregoing pedigree does not agree with that in
custody of the Council of the Nobility at The Hague,
which gives the descent as follows:

Hubert van Culemborg, married Johanna van
Zuilen, and had

Zweder van Vyanen, who married Mabelia van
Abcoude, and had

Hubert van Vyanen, who had

Zweder van Vyanen, who married Heyburg and had

Zweder van Vyanen van Bloemenstein who had

Jan van Bloemenstein, who married .... van
Heukelom and had

Johanna van Bloemenstein who married Johan van
Brakel (ped. 93).

*Rietstap: van Bloemestein. Pays d'Uterechi. D'or a la
fasce de gueules, charge de trois colonnes d' argent.

ALLIED ANCESTRY 149

95

Gerrit van Iseren (or Yseren)* was father of

DiRCK VAN Iseren, whose wife's Christian name was
Agnies.

January 22, 1526. Before Kuijck, Justice in the
matter, Man, Zurmont Jan Joost.

Peterss, with consent of Jan Busmeister, conveys to
Dirck van Yseren Geritss, a free property at the Hav-
endijck back of Jan Sculd between aforesaid Jan Peterss.
and Meuss Jacobss. (Protocol of Sheriffs' Notices of
Culemborch, 1520-34, Inv. No. i lAi, folio 34).

Same date. Dirck van Yseren Geritss. conveys to
Jan de Busmeister said house in permanent rental for
one Holland guilder per year, etc. (Ibid.).

Dec. 6, 1528. Kuyck, Justice, etc.

Mathijs Gysbtss., bootmaker, conveys to Dirck van
Yseren Geritts. a free property situated at Haven-
dijck between Jan Lambertss and Jan Gijsbertss (Ibid.,
fol. 52).

Same date. Dirck van Yseren gives Mathijs Gysbtss.,
bootmaker aforesaid, the aforesaid house in permanent
rental for two Rhenish guilders current per year, etc.
(Ibid.).

Nov. 27, 1532. Appeared Bart Gillis van Aken's
widow with tutor and conveys to Dirck van Yseren
Gerritss. a free property, being an orchard situated on
the Leckedijck near the hospital for lepers, bounded
above by Comelis van Bon and below by Dirck van
Yseren aforesaid, their properties adjoining, extending
from the dike to the City moat opposite the fortress at
Culemborch, certifying upon her oath that there is a
yearly redeemable rent upon it of four Holland guilders
which Pelgrim Geritts. receives from it, and the hospital
at Culemborch thirty doits (23^ pence) yearly perpetual
rent, and the Chapter at Culemborch a half shield per-
petual rent, and Coenrait Zurmont 's heirs an old shield

♦ Archives at Amhen.

150 VAN CULEMBORG

perpetual rent which is used for coal for the church, and
the church three Rhenish guilders current which is used
for oil to bum in the church, and also twenty guilders
principal may be discharged to Grietken Otten, and fur-
ther the public tax and nothing more (Protocol of Sher-
iffs' Notices of Culemborch, 1520-1534, Inv. I lAi,
folio 80).

Nov. 23, 1533. Bart, widow of Gillis van Aken, con-
veys to Dirck van Yseren Geritsz. an orchard situated
on the Lekdyk near the Leper House opposite the moat
from which various revenues issue. Done before Gerrit
van Culenborch, Justice (Richter), Henrick van Kuyck,
Joost Comelisz., Henry Buth and Aemt die Man, Alder-
men (Schepenen) at Culenborch who seal (Charters of
Culemborch, Arnhem, No. 2433).

Feb. 15, 1542. Appeared Philips Isbrantz who
showed it was unnecessary to deliver to Jan Dierick Jan
Geritjss the oiler all such land and equity belonging to
him situated at Golberdingen, according to the condi-
tions thereof and the authority of his own outbidding,
as he sent him notice thereof yesterday, February 14th,
by Aert Diericxz' sworn messenger, and has this day
served legal notice thereof upon him, protesting that if
the aforesaid Jan does not and will not accept the afore-
said notice under the conditions contained in the terms,
the said land will again be put up so that the damages,
with interest, which may have been sustained may in due
course be recovered from him (Protocol of certifications
of Culemborch, 1540-49, Inv. No. XXVIH, i, folio 63).

Aug. 12, 1542. Jan de Busmeyster testified at the
request of Cornelia Geryt van Iserens' wife that he had
fetched a quantity of laths which Meth, Isbrants Philips'
widow, had loaned to the Convent of St. Mariencroon
but does not know how many laths there were {Ibid.,
folio 78, 79).

January 24, 1543. Appeared Agnies, Dierick van
Yseren's widow, party in interest and surety, who de-
sired of Willem van Oirdt a redeemable ground rent of
six Holland guilders per year, 20 Holland stivers to the

ALLIED ANCESTRY 151

guilder free money from her orchard at Redichem,
situated between Henrick Buth and Henrick Berntz'
orchard, etc. (Protocol of Powers of Attorney of Culem-
borch, 1540-46, Inv. No. IV, Ai, folio 124).

January 2, 1544. Appeared Dierick Gosensz., Anna,
Everwijn's wife, and Cornelia, Geryt van Yseren's wife,
parties interested and sureties, who desired to release
and discharge Dierick Jan Gerytz. and Symon Hubertz.
from all such security they gave for them in a mortgage
to Joost Cornelisz (Ibid., folio 168).

January 30, 1544. Appeared Philips Isbrantz. with
Cornells Coel Melinsz. his surety, Dierick Gosensz. with
Willem Vinck his surety, Geryt van Iseren with Agnies
his mother, as his surety, and desire to release Everwijn
Hubertz., each in their fourth share of any debts owing
to the estate of Meth Isbrantz, with which the land at
Golberdingen is encumbered, which Everwijn has pur-
chased from these aforesaid heirs, giving as a pledge
therefor for their aforesaid sureties all such monies as
are owing them from the sale of Meth Isberantz' house
which Adrian Wamel bought of her (Ibid., folio 173).

May 16, 1546. Justice (Richter) Hubertz., Goirditz.,
Thonisz., Goyer.

Appeared Geryt van Yseren who conveys to Agnies
van Yseren, his mother, a free property of a house and
grounds situated on the Zant Street, between Leen
Thonis Gobelsz'. widow and Willem Aelbertz. (Protocol
of Sheriff's Notices, 1535-57, Inv. No. I, 1A2, folio 60).

July 31, 1546. Appeared Agnies, Dirck van Yseren's
widow, party interested and surety Cornells Joost
Wellantsz., bottler, for the payment of six Carolus
guilders per year from her orchard situated at Redin-
chem adjoining on the upper side Henrick Buth, below
Anthonia, Lamnert Alartz'. widow, or whoever may
legally be next adjoining, hereditary redeemable rent
free money (Protocol of Powers of Attorney of Culem-
borch, 1540-1546, Inv. No. IV, Ai, folio 281).

October 22, 1547. Appeared Geryt, Matheus, Cor-
nells, Henrick van Cuyck as guardian and tutor of Anna

152 VAN CULEMBORG

his wife, 0th Wesselsz. on behalf of his wife Mary, and
Neelken with guardianess also taking the place of her
brother Symon who is abroad. And testify on behalf
of Agnies her mother concerning all inheritances and
bequests as have and may come to them in consequence
of the death of Dirck van Yseren her father under the
terms of all such Maechesceyt (testaments or agreements
for distribution) (Protocol of Sheriff's Notices of Culem-
borch, 1 53 5-1 5 5 7, Inv. No. i, 1A2, folio 66),

Jan. 9, 1548. Jacob Voet testified at the request of
Everwijn Hubertz., under the oath which he has made
to our gracious Lady in assuming his office, that a short
time ago he stood in the town hall with Geryt van
Yseren and Neel his wife with the aforesaid Everwijn;
that they promised among themselves, before deponent,
that they would appoint two good men each to settle
their difference (Protocol of Sheriff's Notices of Culem-
borch, 1540-49, Inv. No. XXVIII, i, folio 129).

Steven Zurmont testified that Philips Isbrantz. came
to his house and begged him that he would get Everwijn
Hubertz., his brother-in-law to come to an agreement,
and the aforesaid Philips told him that he would arrange
that his sister Neel and Everwijn would agree with each
other regarding the mill concerning which they are
having legal differences, or he would advise the man
himself to join in, so that everything would be favorable,
and thereupon Everwijn aforesaid came to the house of
deponent and they held good cheer for two days (Ibid.).

Further also testified Steven Zurmont that Neel, Geryt
van Yseren's wife, came personally to his house, that he
should get Everwijn to agree regarding the estate, that
each might know what each should pay, and when that
was settled they would act, concerning the difference
regarding the mill, as was right, and upon the aforesaid
words Everwijn aforesaid came to the house of deponent
and they also entered the house of Meth Isbrants (Ibid.).

October 18, 1549. Before Judge Hardenbrouck, Thonis
Smit and Goyer, Agnies, Dirck van Yseren's widow, with
tutor conveys to Cornelis can Yseren Diericxz., her son,

ALLIED ANCESTRY 153

a free property of house, appurtenances, garden timber
and all rights belonging thereto situated in the New-
City on the Santstreet between Willem Aelbertzoon on
the one side and Helena Thonis Gobelsz'. w4dow, with an
outlet, also the barn which is built there and between
the Costerie of St. John in the New City on the other
side, with right to the wagon road reaching from the
Kerck Street to the Main City aforesaid, and she confers
upon Cornelis van Yseren aforesaid all rights as indi-
cated by decrees of our Sheriffs to be right (Protocol of
Sheriff's Notices of Culemborch, 1535-155 7, Inv. No. I,
1A2, folio 77).

October 13, 1554. Before Stadholder Hubertz Coninck
appeared Melchior van Culemborch Hubertz., (cousin of
Melchior van Culemborch who married Beerta van
Wije), Stadholder of the Fiefs, in the name of our gracious
Lady, Lady Elizabeth van Culemborch, Countess van
Hoogstraten, Lady van Culemborch aforesaid, and Geryt
van Culemborch Hubertz and Frederick die Coninck,
Sheriffs (Schepenen) at Culemborch, who made known
that on said date appeared before them Agnies, w^idow
of Dierick van Yseren, with a guardian appointed for
her, who acknowledged a conveyance to Anthonis
Wellants, Chamberlain of our gracious Lady the Coui|-
tess aforesaid, of all rights w^hich she had in an orchard
ground rent by virtue of the ground rent deed for a half
acre of land and 36 rods, said orchard being situated at
Redinchem (Protocol of Powers of Attorney of Culem-
borch, Dec. 14, 1546 to May 4, 1555, IV A2, folio 311).

May 26, 1555. Appeared Agnies, Dirck van Yseren,
the brewer's widow, with tutor and conveys to Geryt
van Culemborch Melchiorsz., Bailiff (Scholt) of Culem-
borch, the free property of a house and appurtenance
situated on the Vorder Street between Cornelis Melisz.
and Catharina, Rijck die Man's widow, as is legal. As
soon as this had taken place Geryt van Culemborch
aforesaid rented the aforesaid property in a firm, per-
petual lease to Cornelis Zijbrantzoon his heirs and suc-
cessors for three guilders 14^2 shields and 8 mi j ten (3

154 VAN CULEMBORG

cents) Holland per year, etc. (Protocol of Sheriff's Notices
of Culemborch, 1535-57, Inv. No. I A2, folio 55).

July 19, 1555. Before Frederick die Coninck and
Joost Comelisz, Sheriffs (Schepenen) at Culemborg, ap-
peared Agnies, widow of Dierick van Yseren, and Nel
her daughter, each with a guardian appointed according
to law, Hubert van Culemborch Melchiorsz for himself
and also as guardian of Mary his wife, daughter of
Dierick van Yseren aforesaid, who bind themselves and
their heirs to release Alart Jansz the brewer and his
heirs from all such thyns that might be due the said van
Culemborch for a brewery with a tannery, grounds and
appurtenances situated Eastward from the aforesaid
Agnies and stretching Northward on the Meent, South-
ward by Jacob Thy sen and Westward by Alart Jansz.
aforesaid and which property the said Alart received in
tenure from the appearers and which is situated in Tollen
Street (Protocol of Sheriff's Notices of Culemborch,
1535-57, H, No. I A2, folio 9, 10).

March 22, 1559. Conditions under which Jan van
Cuyck, Steward of the Earldom of Culemborg, has
bought of Agnies van Yseren an orchard opposite the
"lazarie" of the Lekdyk extending to the moat of Culem-
borg House for 450 guilders. Signed by the parties and
dcdingslieden Anthonis Zebrecht and Hubert van Baden.
Underneath is an order of Count Floris van Culemborg
to the Steward to pay the price of sale after transfer;
signed by the Count and dated April 8th, 1559 (Char-
ters of Culemborg, Arnhem, No. 2685a).

April 27, 1559. The aforesaid orchard was trans-
ferred for Hubert van Culenborch Melchiorsz, Judge
(Richter), Peter Cooll, Louff van Culemborch Gerytsz,
Jan Joost Gerytz and Bart Thonisz, Justices (Schepenen)
at Culemborg who ratify. On parchment with the first
four seals in green wax (Archives at Arnhem, No.
2685b).

May 27, 1559. Receipt of Agnies van Yseren for 150
Kar. guilders. Idem for 300 Kar. guilders Aug. 8, 1560
(attached to 2433).

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The pedigree deduced from the foregoing references is
as follows:

DiRRiCK VAN YsEREN Gerritsz married Agnies
....; referred to in conveyances 152 6- 1533; Agnies
mentioned as widow Jan. 24, 1543; she was living May
27, 1559- They had issue:

Gerrit, married Cornelia Isbrants, sister of Philips
Isbrants, both of whom were children of Isbrant

PhiHps and Meth

Matheus.
Cornelis.

Anna, married Henrick van Cuyck.
Mary, married first, 0th Wessels who is mentioned
as her husband October 22, 1547; married second,
Hubert van Culenborch Melchiorsz, whom she
married after 1547 and before July 19, 1555, at
which latter date she and her husband Hubert
van Culenborch are mentioned (ped, i).
Neelken.
Symon.

96

EvERWYN, Lord van Gutterswyk;* father of

EvERWYN, Lord van Gutterswyk, who married Hed-
wig. Countess of Bentheim, daughter of Henricus, Coimt
of Bentheim (ped. 97), by whom he had,

Arndt (Arnold), Lord van Gutterswyk, Count of
Bentheim, who married Mechthild van Reifferscheid,
by whom he had,

Aleid van Gutterswyk who married Johan IV,
Lord van Culemborg (ped. i) ; was sister of Everwyn,
Count of Bentheim; died June 3, 1448, and bequeathed
to the Sisters of Mariencroon a house at Culemborg
"to there disburse every feast day and mealtime four
two pint measures of wine." A portion of her tomb-

• Pedigree of the Gutterswyk family in possession of the
Council of the Nobility at The Hague.

156 VAN CULEMBORG

stone existed in 1570, upon which were her arms and
those of van Culemborg (Van der Aa's Biog. Diet.).

97

LuTHARDUS, Count of Cleve* (ped. 2), married Bertha,
daughter of Emperor Arnolph, by whom he had

RiCFRiDUS, Count of Twenderland, Comes Tubantiae,
founder of the Counts of Bentheim, who hved in the loth
Century.

Wolfgang, of the time of the Emperor Henry I.
Otto, of the time of Emperor Henry HI.

Johannes, died 11 19; father of,

Gertraut, Countess of Twenderlande or Tuhnantia,
married Otto von Rineck (ped. 59) and Bentheim,
Palatin of the Rhine, a son of Herman, Count of Luzel-
burg, who lived 11 58. They had,

Sophia, Countess of Twenderlande, who died 1176;
married Theodoricus VH (VI), Count of Holland (ped.
54) and had

Otto, first Count of Bentheim; 1195 appointed Cas-
tellan of Koevorden and Judge of Drenthen by his
brother Baldwin II, twenty-ninth Bishop of Utrecht, at
which the people were displeased and, under Volker,
son of the former Castellan, marched against him, ex-
pelled him, surprised Koevorden and took Otto's wife
prisoner; later, however, she was exchanged as the
result of a treaty by which Otto had to renounce the
office of Castellan of Koevorden and the Regency of
Drenthen. Otto secretly intrigued until he finally suc-
ceeded in involving the Bishop in a new war against

♦Johan Hubner's Genealogische Tabellen, Leipzig, 1744,
Tab. 420.

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Rudolf of Koevorden, which, however, again resulted to
his detriment (Van der Aa's Biog. Diet.). He was father
of

Simon, Count of Bentheim; father of,

Henricus, Count of Bentheim; lived 1326; father of,

Johannes, Count of Bentheim; father of,

Henricus, Count of Bentheim; father of,

Hedwig, Countess of Bentheim; married Erwinus
(Everwyn), Lord van Gutterswyk (ped. 96).

INDEX

Aquitaine, 108, 109, 126
Alsace, 86, 99, 112.
Alsatia, 106, 107, 116, 123.
Altorf, 112, 113.
Amiens, 120.
Amstel, 133, 134.
Anjou, 109, no, 124.
Anvers, 121, 122.
Anvergne, 108, 109.
Ardenne, 96, loi, 102.
Ardennes, 113, 116, 123.
Ardenner Walde, 102.
Arkel, 127-132, 134.
Arlon, 122, 123.
Artois, 93, 94, 105, 106.
Ascania, 79, 80, 82.
Austria, hi.
Autun, 98.
Auvergne, 125.
Auxerre, 98.
Avesnes, 92, 93.

Brie, 108.
Brienen, 143.
Brunswick, 85, 117.
Burgundy, 98, 125.

Carcassone, 108.
Carinthia, 76, 110, 112.
Carpentier, 61,
Carter, 75.
Chalons, 108.
Champagne, 107, 108.
Chartres, 107, 108.
Chateaudun, 108.
Chateau-Landon, 124.
Cleve, 5, 76, 156.
Cock, 143.
culemborg, 9-6i.
Cumberland, ii8.

Ditmarsh, 84.

B

Ballenstadt, 103.
Bar, 123.

Baugenci, 126, 127.
Bavaria, 76, 85, 86, 98, 112,

117.
Beauvis, 107.
Bentheim, 155-157.
Bitche, 123.
Bloemenstein, 148.
Blois, 107, 108.
Bosichem, 7-10.
Bouillon, ioi.
Boulogne, 123, 124.
Brabant, 98, 100, 121, 122.
Brakel, 145, 146.
Brandenburg, 80, 183.

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E

Egmond, 88-92.
Eperon, 125.
Est, III.
EvREUx, 125, 126.

Flanders, 93-95, 105, 106, 123.
Franconia, 86.
Friesland, 77, 114, 115.

Gatinais, 124.
Gelders, 103, 121.
Gottingen, 118.
Grosbeek, 142, 143.
gutterswyk, 1 55.

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INDEX

H

Habsburg, io6.

Hainault, 94-96, 100.

Heinsburg, 79.

Henisburg, 79.

Heukelom, 135.

Heusden, 132, 133, 135, 136, 145.

HoEY, 6, 132.

Holland, 77, 114, 115, 136.

Huntingdon, 119.

Isendoorn, 143, 144.
Iseren, 149-155.
isselsteyn, 92.
Italy, 78, iii, 119.

Jaquet, 63-72.
Jaquett. 63-72.

Keppel, 145.

Meaux. 107.

MerTAL, III.

Meurzthal, I id.
Misnia, 83, 103, 116, 117.
Montfort-l'Amauri, 125, 126.
Moselle, 96, 97, loi, 102, 105,
117. 123.

N

Namure, 104-106.
Narbonne, 124.

NORDGAW, 99, 112.

Normandy, 126.
Northeim, 118.

Oldenburg, 81.
Ortenbourg, I id.

Peronne, 95.
Plocek, 80.
Provins, 107.

Landsberg, 115.
Lansnitz, 116.
Lecke, 137.

LiMBOURG, 122, 123.

Lombardy, 119.

Lorraine, 100, 103, 107, 114,

116, 121-123.
LovAiN, 100, 105, 121, 122.
lunigiana, iii.
Luxembourg, 79, 96, 105, 113, 114,

116, 117.

McCall, 75.

Mc

M

Macon, 108, 124, 125.
Maine, 127.
Matre6, 98.
Merseburg, 83.

QuERCi, 109,

Rasez, 108.
Ravensburg, 112, 113.
Reims, 125.
Rhine, 117.
Rinecke, 117.
Ringelheim, 81.
Rouci, 125.
Rouergue, 109.
rovigo, iii.

St. Quentin, 95, 119, 120.

Sancerre, 108.

Salm, 96, loi, 117.

Saxony, 78, 81, 82, 84-86, no, 115,

117, 118.
Scheld, 97, 98.

INDEX

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Sellers, 72-75.
Senlis, 78.
Scotland, 119.
Soltweldel, 80-83.
Stade, 84.

SUNDGAW, 99.

Surrey, 118.

SWABIA, 86.

Teisterbant, 5, 132.
Teylingen, 77.
Thuringia, 103, no.
Toulouse, 108, 109.
Tours, 107, 108.
Troyes, 119.
twenderland, 1 56,

VeRMANDOIS, 95, 119, 120.
VeRONE, 112.
VlANEN, 146-148.
VOORNE, 136.

Vyanen, 146-148.

W

Warren, ii8.

WassenbeR'G, 103, 104, 121.
Wettin, 81-83, 115-
Wije, 138-142.

WOLPE, 82.

Yseren, 149-155-
ysselstein, 92.

Valenciens, 94.

VaLOIS, 78, 120.

Verdun, 99.

Zeeland, 114, 115.

ZORBIG, 81-83.
ZUTPHEN, 103.

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