Van Egmond van de Nijenburg
The van Egmond van de Nijenburg were a Dutch family belonging to the nobility and patriciate . Contrary to their name, coat of arms and their appearance, this family did not come from the Egmond family . The van Egmond van de Nijenburg were among the leading families of the Alkmaa patriciate in the course of the Golden Age .
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The origins of the family go back to the 15th century, when the first family member was the castellan of Nijenburg Castle near Heiloo . It was Gerrit Willemsz (approx. 1435 – before 1480), who was known only under this pseudonym . His great-grandson, Jan Jansz van de Nyenburg (1515–1555), was the first to call himself “van de Nijenburg”. His son Dirk (1537–1596) finally called himself "van Egmond van de Nijenburg" because the family saw themselves as an illegitimate branch of the Counts from the Egmond family . This unproven theory of descent was first formulated by Gerrit Willemsz's son, Jan Gerritsz († 1523).
Members of the family were leaders in the Alkmaa patriciate and had used that of the Egmond as a seal and coat of arms there for the fifteenth century, but with bastard beams. In order to underline an ancestry from this sex even more, various family members bought the confiscated splendors that had previously been in the possession of the Egmonds in the course of the 17th century ; So also the village of Egmond , consisting of its three places Egmond Binnen, Egmond aan Zee and Egmond aan den Hoef as well as the ruins of the Egmond moated castle located there . In 1705 Johan van Egmond van de Nijenburg was awarded the title of baron including the concession to use the full coat of arms of the Egmond in return for payment of 12,000 guilders by Emperor Joseph I. The family died out in 1747.
people
- Cornelis van Egmond van de Nijenburg (1530–1610), Mayor of Alkmaar
- Thomas van Egmond van de Nijenburg (1599–1675), Mayor of Alkmaar, Councilor in the States of Holland, member of the Dutch States General
- Johan van Egmond van de Nijenburg (1618–1712), Mayor of Alkmaar, Deputy of the Dutch States General, one of the leaders of the Dutch East India Company
- Gerard van Egmond van de Nijenburg (1646–1712), son of the previous one, Mayor of Alkmaar
- Jan Adriaan van Egmond van de Nijenburg (1675–1728), Mayor of Alkmaar
- Jan Aegidius van Egmond van de Nijenburg (1693–1747), in the Alkmaar city government, travel writer, Dutch envoy in Naples, last family member
literature
- J. Belonje: De afkomst van het geslacht Van Egmond van de Nijenburg , published in Jaarboek Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Volume 9 (1955), pages 40-76
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. e.g. J. Aegidius von Egmont and John Heyman: Travel through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai etc. , London 1759 ( online )