Pieter Bladelin

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Pieter Bladelin (* around 1408 in Bruges ; † April 6, 1472 in Middelburg in Flanders ) was a patrician , a leading citizen of the city of Bruges, whose city treasurer he became in 1436. He also worked for the county of Flanders and came to the court of Philip the Good from 1441 and then worked for this Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders in various administrative tasks.

Bladelin was very wealthy and around 1440 he built Hof Bladelin, a private building in the city of Bruges, which was then considered one of the leading houses in the city.

Bladelin bought land from a monastery in Flanders around 1446. He then built a castle on it around 1450 and is said to have founded the town of Middelburg in Flanders next to it.

Bladelin Altar by Rogier van der Weyden . Right the client

After 1450 or possibly a little earlier around 1445, he probably donated an altar in the town, a work by the Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden known today as the Bladelin Altar . It is possible that the donor depicted in Burgundian clothing on the middle section is a portrait of Bladelin. The picture is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.

In 1451 he was appointed treasurer (treasurer) of the Order of the Golden Fleece founded by Philip the Good in 1430 .

Bladelin was married but died childless.

Today, a type of beer from a small private brewery in Flanders was named after Bladelin, and it had the image of the founder of the Bladelin altar on the label.

literature

  • Augustin Bruzen de la Martinière: Historical-political-geographical atlas of the whole world; Or large and complete geographic and critical lexicon . Leipzig 1774
  • K. Verschelde, Testament de Pierre Bladelin (...) , in: Handelingen Genootschap voor geschiedenis te Brugge, 1879, pp. 1–32.
  • Greta Milis-Proost: Bladelin, Pieter, genaamd de Leestmakere, heer van Middelburg, financiell, ambtenaar en raadsheer. In: Nationaal biografisch habenboek , Volume 2. Brussels 1964, Col. 61–63.
  • M. Martens, Pieter Bladelin en Middelburg in Vlaanderen, Middelburg, 1994.
  • M. Martens, Aanvullingen bij de biography van Pieter Bladelin , in: Jaarboek van de heemkundige kringHet Ambacht van Maldegem, 2004.
  • George McDonald: Frommer's Belgium, Holland & Luxembourg . Hoboken, NJ 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ community Maldegen, website ( Memento of 10 November 2007 at the Internet Archive ), called August 2011
  2. ↑ Middelburg. In: Augustin Bruzen de la Martinière: Historical-political-geographical atlas of the whole world. Leipzig 1774 (quoted from the issue of googlebooks 2011)
  3. ^ Bret Rothstein: Vision, Cognition, and Self-Reflection in Rogier van der Weyden's Bladelin Triptych . in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 64/1 (2001), pp. 37–55
  4. ↑ s. Anne Markham Schulz: The Columba Altarpiece and Roger van der Weyden's stylistic development . In: Münchener Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 12 (1971) pp. 63–116
  5. ↑ Bladelin was not a knight of the order; see. u. a. List of Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece . To his office as treasurer u. a. La Toison d'Or, ou Recueil des statuts et ordonnances ... 1689, p. 183
  6. ↑ Blonde Bladelin, Brouwerij de Ryck Brewery, Herzele, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Bladelin, Pieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bruges patricians
DATE OF BIRTH around 1408
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1472
Place of death Middelburg in Flanders