VAN HULTHEM, Jan Wettelijcke vercaevelingue ten sterfhuysen van Jan Van Hulthem ende jonckvrouw Martyne Helaut, jonckvrauw Cathelyne van der Beke, weduwe van Adriaan van Hulthem ende jonckvrauw Anna Elaut, gepasseert voor schepenen van gedeele den...
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16 December 1625. 16 December 1625 (signed 1626)Ghent,manuscript on vellum, 29 x 22 cm, cont. vellum wr. (stains, neat cut at the foot of the gutter not aff. text), 69 ff. (marg. stain on 1st f.), written in 1 hand.
Extensive and enlightening document of the wealthy van Hulthem family of Ghent providing new information on the genealogy of Queen Mathilde of Belgium, wife of the actual King Philippe. The present document was drawn up by the aldermen and councillors of the city of Ghent, in 1625, on the death of Martyne Elaut wife of Jan van Hulthem. His inheritance was equally divided among his 5 children. Each received several houses and parcels of land, as well as money and obligations totalling nearly 2500 pounds each. Several properties were in Ghent itself, others in neighbouring areas : Wondelgem, Wetteren, Royagem, Calcken, Velscke, Balegem, Poesele, Baerle(velde ?), Drongen, Oostakker and Lovendegem. The document gives also valuable information about grandparents, uncles, aunts, stepfather, neighbours, tenants etc. One of the 2 minor sons mentionned may be the van Hulthem whom King Philip IV of Spain granted arms on July 14th 1659. One grandson became counsel to the Raad van Vlaanderen. Via this grandson, Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz is now the most famous descendant of Jan van Hulthem. Beside the direct descent from Jan van Hulthem, she is descended by 2 other routes from his brother and grandfather. The present doc. provides soms additions and corrections to the recently compiled record of her ancestry. Another likely descendant is the book collector Charles J.E. van Hulthem (1764-1832), whose library was acquired by the Belgian government in 1836 and formed the core of the new Royal Library.
Extensive and enlightening document of the wealthy van Hulthem family of Ghent providing new information on the genealogy of Queen Mathilde of Belgium, wife of the actual King Philippe. The present document was drawn up by the aldermen and councillors of the city of Ghent, in 1625, on the death of Martyne Elaut wife of Jan van Hulthem. His inheritance was equally divided among his 5 children. Each received several houses and parcels of land, as well as money and obligations totalling nearly 2500 pounds each. Several properties were in Ghent itself, others in neighbouring areas : Wondelgem, Wetteren, Royagem, Calcken, Velscke, Balegem, Poesele, Baerle(velde ?), Drongen, Oostakker and Lovendegem. The document gives also valuable information about grandparents, uncles, aunts, stepfather, neighbours, tenants etc. One of the 2 minor sons mentionned may be the van Hulthem whom King Philip IV of Spain granted arms on July 14th 1659. One grandson became counsel to the Raad van Vlaanderen. Via this grandson, Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz is now the most famous descendant of Jan van Hulthem. Beside the direct descent from Jan van Hulthem, she is descended by 2 other routes from his brother and grandfather. The present doc. provides soms additions and corrections to the recently compiled record of her ancestry. Another likely descendant is the book collector Charles J.E. van Hulthem (1764-1832), whose library was acquired by the Belgian government in 1836 and formed the core of the new Royal Library.
