Adam van Haren

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Adam van Haren

Adam van Haren (* 1540 in Valkenburg aan de Geul ; † May 3, 1589 in Arnhem ) was a Dutch captain of the Wassergeusen and chamberlain of William of Orange .

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Adam van Haren was the son of the married couple Everhard von Haren from Aachen (around 1510 - around 1589) and Margriet (von) Hagen. He was thus a descendant of the Aachen branch of the old patrician family Van Haren from the Duchy of Limburg , whose members had resided in Aachen for several generations and worked there as lay judges or mayors, among other things. Adam's father left Aachen for political and religious reasons because he was openly committed to the new Reformation movement. He first settled on his various estates in Limburg, where Adam was born in 1540, before he was appointed both as Drost von Boxmeer and from 1555 by Cranendonck from 1534 to 1547 .

Adam van Haren himself, now a bailiff in Cranendonck, joined the noble people's association around 1566, as did his father, which consisted of members of the lower nobility and who opposed the predominantly Catholic rule of the Spanish government in the Netherlands under the Duke of Alba defend themselves. Above all, they demanded that Duke Alba put an end to the Inquisition and the persecution of Protestants, as well as the restoration of their class freedoms. A few months later, Van Haren also took part in the Reformed Iconoclasm in Eindhoven, which was closely linked to the spread of Calvinism in the Netherlands and France, but then had to take refuge with his father in Dillenburg , the residential city of the county of Nassau-Dillenburg Find. Nevertheless, Adam van Haren tried a year later with his wife and children to return to the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands in order to take part in the eighty years' war on the side of the Calvinists against Alba's troops , but was already on October 13, 1568 because of his banned various activities from the empire.

The conquest of Brielle by the Wassergeusen on April 1st, 1572. (Engraving by Frans Hogenberg )

In 1571 van Haren joined the Wassergeusen and appeared as captain Daam and captain of a ship in March 1572 before England. A few weeks later, on April 1st, he was involved in the conquest of Brielle , the first city to be liberated from Spanish rule by the waterways. For this, van Haren was honored by Wilhelm II von der Marck , the admiral of the Wassergeusen, with the "Hartsvanger sword".

Van Haren now settled with his family in Brielle and was appointed councilor and chamberlain to the Dutch governor William of Orange in 1580 . After his death in 1584 he was appointed court master of the Frisian governor Count Wilhelm Ludwig von Nassau-Dillenburg in Leeuwarden . Adam van Haren died on May 3, 1589 in Arnhem and was buried in the church in Leeuwarden. He left behind his wife Margrit Coenen (1541-1608) and several underage children who were under the tutelage of Johann VI. von Nassau-Dillenburg , a brother of Wilhelm von Oranien, grew up. The best known of them was Willem van Haren (1581–1649), who was in the service of John VI. rose to head stable master and was appointed to the Council of the Dutch States General .

Adam van Haren kept a diary of his time as captain of the Wassergeusen, which was lost a few generations later in 1732 in a fire in the family house in Sint Annaparochie .

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  1. ↑ Mention of Adam van Haren as captain of the Wassergeusen ( Memento of November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.6 MB) in: Jurriaan van Toll: Origin and Descent of the Wassergeusen , Publication No. 10 of the Research Center People and Space, The hague
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SURNAME Haren, Adam van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch captain of the Wassergeusen and chamberlain of William of Orange
DATE OF BIRTH 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Valkenburg aan de Geul
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1589
Place of death Arnhem