Heijman (Arkel) van Arkel
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Heijman (Arkel) van Arkel (abt. 840 - abt. 915)

Heijman van Arkel formerly Arkel
Born about [location unknown]
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 75 in Manderscheid, Bitburg-Prüm, Rheinland-Pfalzmap
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Biography

Nederlanders
Heijman (Arkel) van Arkel is gerelateerd aan Nederland.
Heijman was a Mythical Person
Some confusion that needs to be sorted out, I know. That'll come later. Maybe.[1]
Heijman (of Arkel), knight, courtier ('hoveling') of emperor Louis, then chamberlain of the duke of Lorraine, died 915, buried Munderscheid Helena of France (des Heerendochter uit Frankrijk) [2]
Heijman van Arkel Hij is geboren in het jaar 915 in Munderscheid, Duitsland. Hij is overleden in het jaar 1008, hij was toen 93 jaar oud. [3]

Research Notes

The closest source given for this person is Batavia Illustrata, which was written in 1685, which is more than 700 years after these facts. This writing claims that Heijman van Arkel (940 AD) was the first lord of Arkel according to genealogist Pontus Heuterus.

Batavia Illustra also writes about A.Kemp's writing in "Beschryvinge van Gorinchem en den lande Arkel" claiming earlier van-Arkels and ancestors of Heijman van Arkel. This writing from A.Kemp states things like "The name Arkel was derived from a roman Hercules temple in Utrecht, of which the H was dropped and the name morphed into Erkel into Arkel." It describes ancestors like Jan van Arkel 641 and others. As these are not from original sources, but from A.Kemp's writing, they need to be classified as legendary until verified with better sources.

Illustra Batavia 1685 writing about van Arkel

Sources

  1. Entered by Sarah Key.
  2. Source: for leads ancestry of Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs generation 14 (35) last updated October 2010
  3. Source: for leads Stamboom van 't Veld

Acknowledgments

  • Thanks to Sarah Key for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Sarah and others.




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Helena van Arkel md Heijman Van Arkel

she was born van Frankrijk circa 850, ( d. 915) to Lodewijk III "de Blinde" van Provence and Anna van Provence (born van Byzantium) . Lodewijk was born on 881, in Vienne Isere France. Anna was born on 886. Helena had 2 brothers: Reinier III "Langhals" van Henegouwen and one other sibling .

Heijman was born on 850, in Hungary First courtier of Emperor Louis, then chamberlain of the Duke of Loreijnen (Lorraine, France)

They had one son: Fop van Arkel

descendant

Margaret do you have a source for this info?
posted by Hans Baijense
Hans,

Thank you for stepping into this. Much appreciated.

Margreet Beers on behalf of the Dutch Roots Project

posted by Margreet Beers
From kinsman Walter Westfall's genealogy site: According to legend the Van Arkels were descendants of the ancient Trojans. The ancient Trojans or Troad (Greek Troias; "Land of Troy") was a district formed by the northwestern projection of Asia Minor into the Aegean Sea which is now located in modern Turkey. The major city of the Trojans was the legendary ancient city of Troy the site of the epic Trojan War between the Greeks and Trojans about 1200 BC, and Helen of Troy, and the famed Trojan Wooden Horse. Recent excavations have discovered that the city of Troy existed as far back as 2600 BC. If the legend of the Van Arkels being descendants of the Trojans is true then our ancestral lineage dates back as far as 2600 BC.)

Descendant

Visit Walter' Westfall's own site at the web address below

http://http://westfall55.com

Walter died April 2021. He had a generous spirit in sharing his research. I will miss my research buddy of many years.

posted by Margaret (Drody) Thompson
edited by Margaret (Drody) Thompson
Sorry to hear that your genealogy buddy passed away. I browsed through his website. Pretty cool. Can you point me to the page where it points to the van Arkels? I havent been able to locate

There is a lot of info on this site.

posted by Hans Baijense

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