Van Aerssen

Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck (ca.1680)

The Van Aerssen family as well as the Van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk were among the most influential Dutch families in the Golden Age .

The family came from the southern Netherlands, possibly from the Limburg city of Arcen . This name can also have originated from a patronymic of the name "Aartsz" (Aartszoon).

Family branches

Van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk

The family came from the city of Antwerp and was of bourgeois origin. In the golden century, the mostly Orange -minded van Aerssens were among the richest families in the Dutch republic.

In 1605 François van Aerssen was raised to the French nobility by the French King Henry IV with the title of knight . Under the pressure that Moritz von Orange exerted on the Dutch knighthood, François van Aerssen was introduced into it in 1619. The same Van Aerssen was in 1636 by Louis XIII. appointed baron . Between the years 1683 and 1770, the van Aerssen family appeared together with the West India Company (WIC) and the city of Amsterdam as one of the three partners of the Suriname Society . In 1770 the family sold their share to Amsterdam for the sum of 700,000 guilders . The lineage of the van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk died out in their male line with François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk in 1793.

Family members (extract)

• Cornelis van Aerssen (1545–1627), Herr von Spijk , Pensionaris von Brussel, Griffier of the Dutch States General, Dutch envoy in Paris
  • Mr. François van Aerssen (1572–1641), Baron, Lord of Sommelsdijk , Ooltgensplaat and Spijk , Dutch statesman and envoy to Venice, Paris and London
    • Cornelis van Aerssen (1600–1662), Lord of Sommelsdijk, Ooltgensplaat and Spijk, member of the Dutch knighthood, colonel of the cavalry
      • Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1637–1688), Lord of Ooltgensplaat, Spijk and Den Bommel, Governor of Suriname
        • François van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1669–1740), Lord of Châtillon and Bernìeres , Sommelsdijk, Ooltgensplaat and Den Bommel, Vrijheer von Spijk, Dutch Vice Admiral
          • François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–1793), major general of an infantry regiment, Hoogheemraad des Delflandes , Drossaard von Gorinchem and the country "van Arkel", member of the Dutch knighthood, wind lifter of the Dutch East India Company
  • Mr. Jacques van Aerssen (1576–1649), Mr. von Triangel, President of the Council of Brabant
    • Johan Baptista van Aerssen (1614–1656), Lord of Triangel, member of the Brabant Council
      • Cornelis van Aerssen (1646–1728), Lord of Hoogerheide, Half-Ossendrecht, Meteren, Triangle and Voshol, Ontvanger-general of Holland, Zealand and West-Friesland (1678–1728)
        • Cornelis van Aerssen van Hoogerheide (1698–1766), Lord of Voshol, Hoogerheide, Aarlanderveen , Meteren, Triangle and Half-Ossendrecht, member of the Dutch knighthood, Hoogheemraad des Delflandes
          • Albrecht Nicolaas van Aerssen Beieren (1723–1805), Lord of Voshol, Meteren, Hoogerheide, Geldermalsen and Triangle, Colonel of the Dutch Guard, Lieutenant General, Commander of Deventer
  • Johan van Aerssen van Wernhout (1579–1654), Drost of the Barony of Breda (1613), Mayor of Breda (1637)

Van Aerssens van Voshol

Through the marriage (1719) with the heiress from the Van Beieren Schagen family , this name came into the van Aerssen family.

Members of the van Aerssen branch Voshol were raised to the new Dutch nobility in 1822. They received ("from ancient times") the title of baron.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ De Nederlandse surnames databank van het Meertens Instituut
2. ↑ Bijleveld, WJJC (1949) Opmerkingen over de geslachten, treated in het Nederland's Adelsboek . The Hague: Van Stockum (nl) (PDF; 8.8 MB)

Web links

• Brief information about the van Aerssens in "Heren van Holland" (nl)
• Inventory van het archief van de familie van Aerssen van Voshol, 1418–1910 (nl)