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Peter von Graben (Pieter Graeff) b. about 1460
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| Lineage | Graeff |
| Sex | Male |
| Full name (at birth) | Peter von Graben |
| Other last names | Pieter Graeff |
| Parents
♂ Wolfgang von Graben [Graben (von)] d. 11 December 1521 | |
Events
about 1460 birth:
marriage: ♀ Griet Pietersdr Berents [Berents]
before 1500 child birth: Amsterdam, ♂ Jan Pietersz Graeff [Graeff] b. before 1500 d. 1553
Notes
Biography by Matthias Laurenz Gräff
Peter von Graben (* 1450/60 in Styria, Holy Roman Empire) was an Austrian noble who moved to Holland for an indefinite period at a young age.
He is considered the ancestor of the originally Dutch patrician family Graeff / De Graeff,[1] as well as the De Graaff line, which was also based in Prussia. He is also said to be the brother of Abraham op den Graeff, the progenitor of the originally Dutch-clevian, later American family Op den Graeff. The ancestry of these families is represented in the globally active Family Association Gräff-Graeff e. V..
Biography
Peter von Graben was born around 1450/1460 in Austria as member of the Herren von Graben and son of lord Wolfgang von Graben.[2][3] In 1476 [reported also in 1483], Wolfgang and Peter went to Holland in the entourage of Archduke Maximilian of Austria [the later Emperor]. The latter had just acquired Holland by marrying Mary of Burgundy. Margarethe von Croppenstein is reported as Peter's mother, but this cannot be correct, since she is mentioned as the wife of a Wolfgang von Graben, but only in the 16th century, which therefore applies to a later Wolfgang von Graben. Wolfgang entered the military service and was assigned to the archduke. Peter took the name Pieter (de) Graeff (or De Graaff).[4] De Graeff was the Dutch spelling of Von Graben during the 14th and 15th century.[5] In the Diploma of Nobility from 19 July 1677 loaned to Andries de Graeff,[6] it was affirmed that the family de Graeff was formerly called von Graben, which is the same as de Graeff. This family today shows the same coat of arms as the De Graeff family. A family tradition that cannot be verified by external sources attributes Wolfgang von Graben with a second son, Abraham op den Graeff.[7] The ancestry of the Op den Graeff is not supported by any historical sources and is therefore questioned.
It cannot be determined whether Pieter was live in Amsterdam. Biographical cornerstones of his life cannot be determined, but it is reported that he married Griet Pieters(dr) Berents[8][9][10] a woman whose family came from the patriciate of Amsterdam and the low nobility of the area. She may was a daughter of Berend Berends, in 1509 advisor of Amsterdam,[11] himself a son or second line descendant (grandson, nephew) of Jan Berents, Lord of Randenbroek (Amersfoort), the son of Wouter Berensz and his wife Dieuwer Willemsdr de Grebber (born around 1385 or later), called Berents, of the De Grebber family, baljuws of the Waterland.[12][13] The Berents family inherited the fief Randenbroek from the De Grebber.[14]
Griet Pietersdr Berents came from the female line of this family, and through the marriage of her ancestor Willem Grebber Jonge Willem Grebberszoon (born around 1362–1434; father of Dieuwer Willemsdr de Grebber[15]) to Lijsbeth Willemsdr Eggert (born around 1390 or later; also named Imme Eggert), she was also a descendant of Lijsbeths father Willem Eggert (1360-1417), stadholder of Holland.[16][17] Pieter and Griet had one son, Jan Pietersz Graeff, who continued the family line in Amsterdam.[18] His coat of arms from 1542 or 1543 shows the shovel of the Von Graben and the swan of the De Grebber family.[19]
About the family crest of Pieter's wife Griet: Jan Berents, Lord of Randenbroek, the ancestor of Griet Pietersdr Berents, had a coat of arms which hangs in a chapel in the Nieuwe Kerk of Amsterdam. It shows a quartered shield with the arms of the Berents, De Grebber, Eggert and Boel (Boelens Loen).[20] During the 15th and 16th centuries, these families were at the head of the Amsterdam patriciate and, with the exception of the Boelens, belonged to the knightly nobility.
Notes
Sources
- ↑ Nederland’s adelsboek 1914 (14 - De Graeff)
- ↑ Family De Graeff at DBNL
- ↑ Der deutsche Herold: Zeitschrift für Wappen-, Siegel- u. Familienkunde, Band 3, p 91/92, von Verein Herold
- ↑ Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Ritter- u. Adels-Geschlechter, Band 3, p 229 (1870)
- ↑ Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache in Beziehung auf Abstammung und Begriffsbildung, p 254, by Conrad Schwenck (1834)
- ↑ Pieter C. Vies: Andries de Graeff (1611–1678) `t Gezagh is heerelyk: doch vol bekommeringen. p 5
- ↑ Ancrestors Op den Graeff
- ↑ Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde, Bände 1895-1900, p 130
- ↑ Family De Graeff at DBNL
- ↑ De werken van J. van den Vondel, Bände 29-30, p 378, von Joost van den Vondel
- ↑ De werken van J. van den Vondel, Bände 29-30, p 378, von Joost van den Vondel
- ↑ De vroedschap van Amsterdam 1578-1795, Teil 1, p 85, von Johan Engelbert Elias (1963)
- ↑ Genealogie Pauw, Persijn, de Jong, en Verhee. Von Thijs Postma
- ↑ Jaarboek van het Genootschap Amstelodamum, p 46, 47 (1959)
- ↑ Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Jaarboek, deel 16, 1962, blz 55 e.v., 'De Grebber', door Ir. J. G. Kam.
- ↑ Genealogie Pauw, Persijn, de Jong, en Verhee. Von Thijs Postma
- ↑ De werken van Vondel. Deel 10. 1663-1674 (1937), Aen den hooghedelen heer Pieter de Graef, vryheer van Zuitpolsbroek, op den oorsprongk van het geslagt der graven
- ↑ Family De Graeff at DBNL
- ↑ De wapens van de magistraten der stad Amsterdam sedert 1306 tot 1672, Band 1, von Pieter Anthony und Johan van den Brandeler (1890)
- ↑ Veilingcatalogus, boeken van Slagregen, 20 oktober 1891, Amsterdamsche gebeurtnissen, p 2
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