Jan van Schaffelaar

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Church in Barneveld, 2006. In July 1482 Jan van Schaffelaar jumped from the tower to his death.
The statue in honor of Van Schaffelaar in front of the church

Jan van Schaffelaar (* around 1445 in the province of Gelderland , † July 16, 1482 in Barneveld ) was an officer of the cavalry in the hook and cod war in the service of David of Burgundy . Van Schaffelaar is considered a Dutch folk hero.

The jump from the church tower

The earliest mention of Van Schaffelaar can be found in a chronicle by Antonius Matthaeus from the province of Utrecht from 1698. The chronicle reports that on July 16, 1482, between the troops belonging to the "Cod" under the leadership of Van Schaffelaar and a "Haken" Unit from Amersfoort and Nijkerk came to a battle. Van Schaffelaar and his men occupied the church of Barneveld, where they were fired at with cannons. In this attack, Van Schaffelaar lost four or five men. The two parties negotiated with each other; there are different versions of the content of the negotiations and the demands. In the chronicle of 1698, Matthaeus writes that the "hooks" only wanted to agree to a surrender if the men entrenched in the church would throw their leader from the church tower. The chronicle reports that the men rejected the proposal, but Van Schaffelaar then threw himself from the tower to save his men. Despite the great height of the fall, Jan van Schaffelaar was not immediately dead and was murdered by the opposing soldiers.

On September 15, 1903, a statue in honor of Jan van Schaffelaar was unveiled in front of the church in Barneveld. In June 2009 the Schaffelaartheater opened in Barneveld.

reception

Jan van Schaffelaar starring in the otherwise largely fictional young adult novel Karen Simon daughter of Thea Beckman and in 1838 published novel De Schaapherder of January Frederik Oltmans .

literature

  • AHJ Prins: Kanttekeningen bij de dood van Jan van Schaffelaar, 1482-1982. Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van Barneveld, deel 2., 1981
  • AHJ Prins: Jan van Schaffelaar: Requiem voor een Gelderse Ruiter , Barneveld, Schaffelaarreeks No. 12, 1982
  • Antheun Janse: De Sprong van Jan Van Schaffelaar ; Uitgeverij Lost, 2003; ISBN 90-6550-462-1 ; here excerpts online at books.google
  • Pieter Lodewijk Muller:  Scaffelaer, Johann van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 465.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ schaffelaartheater.nl ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 29, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schaffelaartheater.nl
personal data
SURNAME Schaffelaar, Jan van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch folk hero
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelderland
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1482
Place of death Barneveld