Van Bergum

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Van Bergum is a German-Dutch noble and patrician family .

The gentlemen van Bergum named themselves after Bergum, in Dutch Burgum (Tytsjerksteradiel) , which has been known in a document since 1083. The largest landowner in the village since the middle of the 12th century, the van Bergum were replaced in the course of the 15th century by the Frisian chief family Manninga , lords of the place and the largest landowners. Part of the family emigrated to Haarlem near Amsterdam, where they established themselves as the city's leading patricians. A part of the van Bergum moved to Leeuwarden, where from 1607 they succeeded in advancing into the Dutch money nobility with Daniel Johannes van Bergum.

Name-giving place

Bergum is now in the Dutch province of Friesland not far from the city of Leeuwarden and housed a monastery in the Middle Ages that was founded in the 12th century, temporarily existed as a double convent (male / female convent ) before it was subordinated to the diocese of Leeuwarden by papal order in 1599 and as a whose chamber property acted

Significant family members

  • Daniel Johannes van Bergum was a member of the Leeuwarden District Merchants' Guild (approx. 1570–1642)
  • Ludwig (Lodewijck) van Bergum, son Daniel Johannes (1602–1670) brewery owner a. a. "Het Harlems Wapen" in Haarlem. This brewery was later acquired by Gerard Adriaan Heineken and went into the existent today Heineken on -Brauereien.
  • Susanna van Bergum, granddaughter of Ludwig, b. April 30, 1663, married Pieter Boll the Younger, an important, wealthy merchant and holder of high political offices in Holland. The couple were so famous and wealthy that several contemporary Dutch painters portrayed them. The paintings can be admired in the national museums of Holland.
  • Johannes van Bergum, merchant of the Dutch East India Company and advisor to William V (Orange) , governor of the Netherlands.

literature

  • S. Muller: Regesten van het archief of bisschoppen van Utrecht. 1917
  • Acta of the provinciale en particuliere synods. Volume 6, 1897
  • Karl Otto Johannes Theresius Freiherr von Richthofen: Investigations on Frisian legal history. Volume 1,2, 1886
  • P. Biesboer, Carol Togneri: Collections of Paintings in Haarlem, 1572–1745. 2001
  • Ingrid G. Dillo: De nadagen van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. 1783-1795. Amsterdam 1992
  • Thomas Schleich, Thomas Beck (ed.): Merchants as colonial masters. Writings from the Bamberg University Library. Volume 6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Utrecht property register 1083 confirms Count Theoderich: "In Bergum V mansi"
  2. ^ Document from 1607 on a meeting of the provincial synod of merchants in the Netherlands lists Daniel Johannes van Bergum as a member of the merchants' guild of the Leeuwarden district
  3. ^ Karl Otto Johannes Theresius Freiherr von Richthofen: Investigations on Frisian legal history. Volume 1,2, 1886 and The Cistercian Model: https://pure.knaw.nl/ws/.../The_Cistercian_Model_The_Application_of.pdf
  4. ↑ Acta of the provinciale en particuliere synods. Volume 6, 1897
  5. ↑ P. Biesboer, Carol Togneri: Collections of Paintings in Haarlem, 1572-1745. 2001
  6. ^ Ingrid G. Dillo: De nadagen van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. 1783-1795. Amsterdam 1992 and Thomas Schleich, Thomas Beck (ed.): Merchants as colonial rulers. Writings from the Bamberg University Library. Volume 6