Date: 1405 to 1476
Location: Cleves
Surnames/tags: Knight, Nobility, Duchy of Cleves

Contents 1 Johan von Loë 1.1 Biography 1.1.1 Birth 1.1.2 Marriage 1.1.3 Death 1.2 Timeline 1.3 Ancestors 1.4 Questions 1.5 Sources

Johan von Loë

Jan von Loë source Nederlands adelboek 1915, pag. 173
Birth Death	c1405 1476
Father Mother	Wessel von Loe tot Holte (-1456) Elsken von Overhaus (-1450)

Born about 1405 on the castle Vondern, Duchy of Cleves
Son of sir Wessel von Loe tot Holte and Elsken von Overhaus
Brother of
Husband of Stina (Christina) van Eyll --- married 1429
Father of Bruen (illegitimate), Christina, Elisabeth and Wessel

Biography

Birth

Nederlands adelboek 1915, pag. 173

Johan van den Loe was born in 1405 or 1406 on the castle Vondern (in the vicinity of Oberhausen). We know this, because on 5 December, 1449 (44 years old) Johan was interrogated as a witness. Sun of knight Wessel von Loe tot Holte ( - 1456), Cleves ‘hofmeister’ and ‘ambtman van de Lymers’ and Elsken von Overhaus ( - 1450). ^[1] The proven history of the family starts with his grandfather Knappen Wessel vamme Loë. ^[2]

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Cleves

Historical context

The fifteenth century, the century in which Johan von Loë lived, was the century in which Philip the Bold (1342-1404) ^[3] , a prince from the French royal dynasty of the House Valois and duke of Burgundy, his son Jan without Fear (384-1404) ^[4] , but especially his grandson Duke Philip the Good (1396-1467) ^[5] managed to acquire several provinces in the lowlands, usually peacefully through marriage, inheritance or buy, such as County of Namur (1421), duchies Brabant and Limburg (1430), the glory of West Friesland (1432), the counties of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut and the duchy of Luxembourg (1443). ^[6] The Duchy of Gelre remained independent for a long time. But the Duchy of Cleves formed a wedge between the northern and southern territories of the Duchy of Gelre. ^[7] Liemers (Zevenaar, Duiven, Loo, Groessen, Wehl), originally from Gelders territory, pledged by Reinoud IV van Gelre to the county of Cleves (Kleve). After in the 14th century, the Clergymen made frantic efforts to get the Liemers in their hands, they finally managed to get the area in pledge in 1406. This pledge is not be repaid in later years. De Liemers therefore becomes a Kleefse enclave, which is almost completely surrounded by Gelderland area. ^[8]
In 1417 Emperor Sigismund of the Holy Roman Empire (German: Heiliges Römisches Reich and Latin: Sacrum Imperium Romanum oder Sacrum Romanum Imperium) ^{[9] [10]} raised the county Cleves to a duchy and Count Adolf II became Duke Adolf I of Cleves and of the Mark. ^[11] The Duke succeeded in his reign to expand the Cleves territory and largely dissolve the dependence on the Archdiocese of Cologne. After he had already acquired as Count Emmerich with parts of the Liemers (1402) from the Duchy of funds as non-repaid pledge, followed other miserable areas with the Reichswald between Nijmegen and Kleve (1418), Gennep (1424), Wachtendonk (1440, but only temporarily ) and Duffel (1446). The basis for the acquisition of the areas and localities were pledge agreements. ^{[12] [13]}
The renowned St. Elisabeth flood of December 19, 1421, also caused damage in the Liemers. On 20 December, the Rijndijk broke through at Emmerik, which flooded an extensive area and after an extremely cold winter in 1432, the Liemers flooded after the thaw. The city of Arnhem sends herrings to the victims.

Marriage

In 1429 Johan married Stina (Christina) van Eyll. ^[14] Her family belonged to a well-known Cleves knight family and had long held a prominent role at the ducal court in Cleves. In an act in Kleef's archive it says: "Johan vanne Loe, des hertogs Marschalk en lieven diener, bevestigt de bruidschat van Christina, dochter van Syfridi van Eyll, Ritter, die hij nu getrouwt heeft, in Vondern, waertoe Wessel van Loe des hertogs lieve raed en diener consenteert”.'

Coat of arms of the Counts of Loë

The marriage with Stina van Eyll brought Johan van den Loe into direct contact with Duke Adolf van Kleef. Four months after his marriage he joined the Duke. In January 1436 he was assigned the management of the Kleefse areas in the Liemers and in June 1437 he was officially appointed as an official (ambtman) of the Ambt Emmerik. His predecessor was Geryt van de Cornhorst. His appointment letter indicated exactly what his rights and obligations were. The drostambt in the Liemers was a vast area between Emmerich and Arnhem, Rhine and Lek, IJssel and Oude IJssel and various jurisdictions such as Zevenaar, Groessen, Duiven, Beek and the small district of Emmerich and the city area and the jurisdiction of Hüthum.

A landdrost, drost or drossaard was a Dutch civil servant who ran a certain area. ^[15] The official seat was the castle in Zevenaar and not in Emmerich. Johan van den Loe was the deputy of the Duke, but he played a minor role in the national government. We experience specific details about his office activities. He arranged the proportions in the cherry Angerlo, in particular, the borders and what else belonged to Cleves.

Johan was busy with the dikes and the administration. If, for example, it concerned the dike and the dike inspection at Spijk and Lobith, he recorded the burden-sharing, the expansion and the maintenance of the bandages in writing. One of the first surviving provisions of the Duke to Johan van den Loe was, for example, the order to ensure that the clergy in his district no longer proclaimed prohibitions (ecclesiastical punishments) from the pulpit. Because numerous concrete details about John's work have been recorded, even remnants of administrative affairs, one gets the impression that he had personally dealt with many things. The function of the officer was not an honorary job in the past. Johan took, already under Duke Adolph, an important place at the Court and after 1443 he belonged to the small group of friends and counselors of the Duke. He had thus gained in prestige in the Cleves district over many noble general.

It was important to note that this appointment as an official was only available if the applicant leased the Duke in advance with a suitable amount of money over a long period so that the Duke could repay the previous official. The noble officers served with the Duke in this way and often also as a lender and received a pledge for that, which strengthened their influence on the country administration. Johan van den Loe thus already had a lot of money in 1436-1437, when he was drosting in the Liemers, so that his predecessor Johan van Aaswijn could be paid again. The son of Duke Johan gave him a letter, in which he informed him that he was indemnifying for compensation.

Soester Fehde

A year earlier, in the Soester Fehde ^[16], Johan had made available to the young Duke for nursing and the expenses of the troops, who occupied the burg in Holten, first 800 and then 1,000 gold guilders.

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

Gert van der Schueren recalls: when his country was finally in peace, Johan van Kleef, who was then twenty-seven years old, decided to pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He turned to go hunting in Groesbeek. When he arrived in Groesbeek, he decided to continue his journey to Brussels to meet his uncle Philip of Burgundy. On the way, he had met his companions, including Johan van den Loe and Thijs van Eijll. Johan must have been 45 or 46 years old then. Twelve or thirteen days remained in the Holy Land. There they spent awkward hours, for the residents thought they were kings and therefore wanted to extort them a large sum of money before letting them go in peace. With great effort, it succeeded in escaping the difficulties, so that they could tell a little bit ridiculous at home: "that sy mit kleynen pennynck came my mind," in other words: we paid it off live on payment of a trifle.

In Jerusalem they met sir "van Kryck uyt Pyckardijen" with his company. He was a knight and knighted Johan from Kleve as a knight with the sword that Johan had taken from Cleves. The chronicler continues: “Soe dan Hertoch Johan aldus Ritter was geslagen, dan sloich he vanstonden an voirt in eynen wege myt dem vurger. synsselfs swerde Ritter die vorbersten, doe myt oen avergekomen waren; ind dieselven, die he sus myt synre hant Ritter sloich.” Among others, sir Johan van den Loe and sir Thijs van Eyll.

Unlike his fellow knights in Cleves, Johan had a lot of money. As he had previously done, he lent large sums of money to the Duke of Cleves in 1453 and 1457. For this he was given as collateral Nieuwland and Broekland and also tenths in Groessen and Babberich.

Family

Johann got around 1445 an illegitimate son (“as a natural son of knight Johan van den Loe) by the name Bruen, who had originated from- also for the then - an unlawful relationship. Bruen was as bastaard not allowed to wear the name of his father, but 'only' the name ‘van den Loe’. Nevertheless, as a descendant of the house Wissen he got the farm Abroeck as (sub) leen (Wissen then belonged as a fiefdom to Xanten) when the resident lord Hendrik van Abroeck died there and his heirs the legacy of the then not willing to accept (country) good debt. In the late 16th century the farm - again because of a heavy debt burden - had to be given back to the relationship of Wissen ("sold"). But until then the names of the descendants of Bruen also show the clue to the lineage, in the manner in which they carried the addition of Loe - "van Asbroeck". Like his half-brother Wessel (who was from Wissen), Bruen was not an unimportant man in his time. For example, we know from him that he was a judge in Weeze. In the numerous documents preserved in the Wissen archives, he is mentioned as such - especially in reconciliation procedures.

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Background

His descendants, that is to say, those who bear his name, are now (substantially) more numerous than those of his half-brother Wessel, whose tribe (Wissen) in the late 18th century consisted exclusively of the equally important and child-rich Edmond. Today they live - with the Netherlands as a center of gravity - far-branched throughout the world and bear the names of the (r) Loo, of (de) Loe. By means of regularly organized family days or the annually appearing LOO chronicle, they maintain a close family relationship, as well as a good relationship to the common origin in Wissen.

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castle Wissen

He married both daughters very favorably. Christina 1451 with Johan van Aldenbochum and Elisabeth 1454 with Dietricht van der Horst. The third daughter Margaretha became a nun and later abbess (1476-1510) in the Cistercian monastery Sterkrade, the old house convent of the family, as the successor of her aunt Hadewig van den Loe (1461-1473).

When his son Wessel, sir of Funderen, prepared to marry Lysbeth von Berenbrouck (Berenbroick) ^[17], the daughter of the in the region important mayor (van Goch) Loeff von Berenbroick, this initially struck due to the lack of (land) property in the von Loe family Duchy Kleve (and even in the Rhineland) on certain obstacles. Lysbeth brought large (goods) property with her.

Fortunately, however, Wissen was on sale during this time. The widow of Heinrich van der Straeten (who had died on the crusade to the Holy Land) had - because of her own childlessness - been already selling Wissen, but - because of the unpaid purchase price - recovered again. Now Wissen was again for sale and this time Johann von Loe was the interested party. In the marriage certificate - written by both fathers (!) Johann and Loeff in writing - it says that marriage - as the jurists would say today - would not come into force for so long until Johann would not succeed in preparing for his son Wissen. to buy.

Evidently, Johan did not have to worry about the financing of the purchase price (the 9250 gold thalers meant a huge sum of money for the time at that time). The liquidation of the first purchase price has been set for three months after the written recording of the marriage - and thus the marriage of the young couple is legally valid. Wessel thus becomes the first lord of the castle von Loe op Wissen, which until now is still in family possession. ^[18] The German Noble branch.

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Background

Kasteel Wissen (Schloss Wissen) is a moated castle to the south of the town of Weeze in the district of Kleve. The castle is located close to the current Dutch border on the river Niers, which flows into the Meuse in the Netherlands.

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1979 het Loogasthuis vlak voordat het werd afgebroken

Johan founded a home in Zevenaar in 1467 for "seven, poor and righteous homeless people from the Liemers". This Loogasthuis in the (later) St. Jansstraat has stood for about 500 years until it was razed to the ground in the seventies of the 20th century by bulldozers.

In 1468 Johan had collaborated during the occupation, in the town of Doesburg in Gelderland, located next to his district, and imprisoned people at the castle Zevenaar. When in 1470 the Didam belonging to Gelder came to the Liemers, the occupation was under the command of Johan van den Loe. In 1473 (67 years old) Johan played again an important role as advisor of the Duke Arnold of Cleve when it came to the control and political influence of the Duchy of Gelder between the Duke and his son Adolf, in which Karel de Bold of Burgundy interventions and made himself Duke of Gelder. Cleves supported the Burgundian Duke against son Adolf and the Gelderland cities.

Johan van den Loe acted as a mediator, to bring numerous enclaves in Gelderland to the right of the Rhine, near Zevenaar, the Liemers, and Emmerich, to a successful conclusion. In a letter dated July 29, 1473, Johan wrote to the Duke of Cleves: Smedet that yseren, that wile that id is heit. He then learned that no one was present at the Didam castle, except for the lady Van Den Bergh and Claes van Camphuysen and that the castle at Angerlo was evacuated by Johan van Kell, who left only four soldiers there. Johan advises his lord to strike now and take these castles. Charles the Bold (Dutch: Karel de Stoute) (1433 – 1477) ^[19] has just taken Nijmegen and is about to invade the county. He would be the last Duke of Burgundy from the House of Valois. The Duke of Cleves should use this threat to limit the damage to Kleve and to take over the entire Liemers. The Duke of Cleves wisely does not respond to this advice, because Count Van Den Bergh has turned to Burgundy and with that, he is a hit for Kleve. Only Angerlo is annexed by Kleef.

That Johan van den Loe wanted to expand his own goods and possessions has been proven. Numerous documents and certificates can prove this.

Death

On February 14, 1470, Stina van Eyll died. She was buried at the Carthusians on the Graveneiland near Wesel, as she had stated in her will.

After the death of his good friend Thies van Eyll (1468 ) and his wife Stina van Eyll, Johan lived another five years. Johan passed away 71 years old, between three and four o’clock in the morning on August 23, 1476. Anno 76 op sint Bartolomesavent , ind dat was doe….op enen vridagh des morgens in der dagziet tusschen drie ende vyr uren. , as his son Wessel later had written down with his own hand. ^[20] He was buried next to his wife in the Carthusian monastery on the Graveneiland. ^[21]

Timeline

1405 Johan is born on the castle Vondern, near Oberhausen
1429 Johan married Stina (Christina) van Eyll
1436 Johann was assigned the management of the Kleefse areas in the Liemer
1445 Around this year Bruen van den Loe (bastard) is born
1450 pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Duke of Cleves
1450 knighted in Jerusalem
1450 mother Elsken von Overhaus passed away
1453 lent large sums of money to the Duke of Cleves
1457 lent large sums of money to the Duke of Cleves
1451 daughter Christina married with Johan van Aldenbochum
1454 daughter Elisabeth married with Dietricht van der Horst
1456 father knight Wessel von Loe tot Holte passed away
1461 Johan bought for 9450 gulden a castle Wissen for his son
1461 son Wessel married with Liesbeth van Beerenbroek
1467 founded a home for homeless people from the Liemers
1470 wife Stina van Eyll passed away
1476 knight Johan von Loe passed away in Holten

Ancestors

1. Johan van den Loe was born in (c1405-1449)

Parents
2. Wessel von Loe tot Holte (-1456)
3. Elsken von Overhaus (-1450)

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Questions

• Our Family Tree has the missing information to make the connection between my 14th generation grandfather Jan van de Loe van Abroeck and Agnes (Altena) von Altena. I want to contribute to WikiTree by adding these missing generations. However, my requests to some projects/ managers do not seem to come to that. I am obviously doing something wrong. Can someone help me by putting me in touch with the right project manager or asking him to contact me?

Sources

1. ↑ Bron: Nederlands adelboek 1915
2. ↑ Bron: Neues allgemeines deutsches Adels-Lexicon Band 5, Seite 598–599
3. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia Philip the Bold
4. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia John the Fearless
5. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia Philip the Good
6. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia Burgundian Netherlands
7. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia Hertogdom Gelre
8. ↑ Bron: Liemers historie
9. ↑ Bron: Die lateinischen Namensformen variieren, siehe etwa Klaus Herbers, Helmut Neuhaus: Das Heilige Römische Reich. 2. Aufl. Köln u. a. 2006, S. 2.
10. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia Heiliges Römisches Reich
11. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia Duke Adolf I von Kleve und Mark
12. ↑ Bron: Biographie Adolf I
13. ↑ Bron: Robert Scholten; in: Zur Geschichte der Stadt Kleve, 1905 Cleve, S. [534/535]508/509. Onlinefassung
14. ↑ Bron: Nederlands adelboek 1915
15. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia Landdrost
16. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia Soester Fehde
17. ↑ Bron: Nederlands adelboek 1915
18. ↑ Bron: Schloss Wissen
19. ↑ Bron: Wikipedia Charles the Bold]
20. ↑ Bron: Archief Slot Wissen Familiekroniek
21. ↑ Bron: Archief Slot Wissen Urk

See also:

• Relationship report with Charlemagne Space:Link van Richard Goossens met Karel de Grote