Maria Pypelinckx
Maria Pypelinckx (born March 20, 1538 in Kuringen near Hasselt ; died October 19, 1608 in Antwerp ) was a woman from the Spanish Netherlands , known today as the mother of the painter Peter Paul Rubens . Your name is written in very different variations of P [y / ij / i / e] pelin [ck / k / c] [s / x] depending on your writing habits , so Pijpelincx or Pepelin are also common.
Life
She was the daughter of Hendrik Pypelinckx, a tapestry merchant from Hasselt, and Clara Touion. Little is known about her childhood. In 1561 she married the lawyer Jan Rubens , who settled back in Antwerp after a long trip to Italy. The shared apartment was on the Meir . Rubens became a magistrate and witnessed the Beeldenstorm of 1566. In 1568 he fled because of his Calvinist sympathies to avoid the blood council . Which of the four children the couple took with them on their escape and which they left behind in the care of others is unknown today. They allegedly settled temporarily in Cologne. Rubens now worked for Anna of Saxony , who sued her husband Wilhelm of Orange for the surrender of the Wittum. Wilhelm took the surprising pregnancy of his wife as an occasion for a legal counter-offensive: Rubens confessed under torture in 1571 that he was the father of Anna's recently born daughter Christine von Diez . Wilhelm thus obtained a divorce from Anna.
Maria Pypelinckx was very committed to the release of her unfaithful husband, who feared his execution and wrote her from prison that he was unworthy of her. She wrote letters of supplication in his name and finally brought 6,000 guilders as bail to free Rubens. But he remained under house arrest with his family in Siegen until Anna's death in December 1577 . The sons Philip Rubens (1574) and Peter Paul Rubens (1577) were born there.
After the family was allowed to move back to Cologne in 1578, they were threatened with expulsion again in 1583 because they belonged to the Calvinist denomination. Because of Pypelinckx's letters of petition and Rubens' change of denomination, they were given permission to stay. After Rubens' death in 1587, Maria honored him with an inscription in which she recognized his abilities as a husband and scholar.
In the same year she returned to Antwerp and also took care of Peter Paul Rubens' training. After graduating from Latin school, she brought him up as a page at the court of Marguerite de Ligne . She also supported him in his desire to become a painter and recommended him to his distant relative, Tobias Verhaecht . When Peter Paul set out on a study trip to Italy, his brother Philip moved in with his mother.
The news of her life-threatening illness reached Italy too late; Maria Pypelinckx died in October 1608. Peter Paul Rubens, who returned because of the news, found her no longer alive.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek : Maria Pepelen or Maria Pijpelinckx
- ↑ a b c Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 381.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pypelinckx, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pijpelinx, Maria; Pijpelinks, Maria; Pijpelincx, Maria; Pepelin, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mother of Peter Paul Rubens |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1538 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuringen near Hasselt , Spanish Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1608 |
| Place of death | Antwerp , Spanish Netherlands |