Alert Gijsbertsz (abt. 1576 - bef. 1615)

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Biography

• Het eerst bekende optreden van Alert (Alart) Gijsbertsz dateert uit 1605: 20 september 1605 Alart Ghijsbertsen en Philips Gompertsen verkopen aan Gerit Valcken: hun aandeel van de eigendomsakte van negen morgen land in Hellouw, Damenslant genaamd .^[1]
• In dat jaar(1605) moet Alert dus reeds meerderjarig zijn, omdat alleen meerderjarigen handelingsbekwaam werden geacht. Zijn vrouw heet Metken, zoals we al eerder hebben gezien op de kerklidmatenlijst van 25 december 1612.
• De volgende akte onthult de naam van haar vader en moeder : 27 juni 1611^[2] Alart Ghijsbertsen, als echtgenoot van Metken Walravens, verkoopt aan Corsten Ariaensen: 16 hont land in Haaften, genaamd Hoornick, grenzend ten oosten, zuiden en noorden aan de straat, en, ten westen aan Joest Rutgersen. Zekerheid: het landgoed en de nalatenschap van Walraven Hermensen en zijn vrouw Lysken.(=parents Metken)

Name

• Alert Gijsberts (Rosa)

Birth

• Born about 1576 [uncertain] in Herwijnen, Gelderland, NTH
• Marriage: Date: Bef 1609

Marriage

• Husband of Metke Walravens married before 1609
• Found on the Herwijnen church membership list of 25 Dec 1612, with his wife Metken.

1. Alert Gijsbertsz, overl. voor 26-2-1615, tr. Metken Walravens.

Children

• From this marriage/Uit dit huwelijk:

1. Elisabeth Alerts Rosa, tr. Jacob Groenen, secretaris en leenschrijver van Soelen.Elisabeth [Rosa], bc 1607, d bef 10 Nov 1680, m Jacob Groenen, bc 1605 An A. Groenen was a co-signer on the marriage contract of his brother-in-law, Geurt Alertsz on 3 Jun 1638. ^[3]They had no children and devised their property to the one who lived the longest, and while Groenen died first ,his wife then devised her property to her niece Metje Geurts Rosa; they had the fame of being very rich. ^[4]
2. Cornelis Alertsz Rosa, bc 1609. jong overleden.
3. Geurt Alertsz Rosa.bc 1614 ^[5]
4. Mariken Alerts Rosa,bc 1611, overl. 23-7-1681, tr. Deil 1630 Govert Hendriks van Holten, kleermaker, schoolmeester en secretaris van Deil.

Register manslaughter

• From an extract of the register of manslaughters dated 1615 in the Benches of Tuil and Deil it is learned that Alart Gijsbertssen in Herwijnen was struck down by one called Jan Eelissen.^[6] A thorough search for any records that might shed more light on this case was preformed by Mr.Nouwt without success. During the course of that search certain records were found which shed some light on the dates between which Alert died: On 10 Aug 1613 a note mentions that there is a legal action [pending] between Dirck van Huesden and Alart Ghijsbertsen.^[7] "Alart Ghijsbertsen or his heirs, having resisted six times the legal seizure (of his property) by Dirck Roloffssen and Gheerit van Boltholen, have been fined on 9 Aug 1614 six 'double alderman's guilders', or 13 1/2 guilders."^[8]

• We hebben reeds eerder gezien dat Alert Ghijsbertsen voor1615 overleden is. Dat zijn dood gewelddadig was, blijkt uit het volgende/that his death was a violent one we can read here:^[9] Extract uit de registers van doodslag/extract from the registers of manslaughter ^[10]Alart Ghijsbertssen in Herwijnen is gedood door iemand met de naam Jan Eelissen./Alart Ghijs bertssen was killed by a man named Jan Eelisse,

• Jan Eelissen will certainly have been no stranger to Alert,given the transactions between Alert and the family Elisen:
• 1.December 1, 1606^[11]Gerit Elisen sells to Aellert Ghijsbertsen :7 hont in Herwijnen ,across the Broockgraeff ,a third of incorporated 3 1/2 morning called Claes Lucas Camp,adjacent:
• upper Jan Ariensen,including:the heirs of Claes Vijgh,on the north side: Willemken Jans de Rou ,and on the south side :the Broeck Graeff .
• October 9, 1609 ^[12] Dirck Elisen promises to pay to Alart Ghijsbertsen154 guilders on 24 June 1610.
• This agreement was not held and destroyed on January 22,1639
• The Elisens are the former neighbors of Alerts father Gijsbert Goertzen , as evidenced by the following:
• November 25, 1581 ^[13]Gijsbert Goertsen sells Gerit Sandersen the right of way(use of the path across the land/ property) , that he (Gijsbert)owns in Herwijnen, inhabited by Gerit Sander sen adjacent above Mechtelt ,the widow of Aert Willemsen, and the heirs of Gerit Jansen and adjecent : below them heirs of Melis Jansen.
• For sure the yard/land/place in Herwijnen that is inhabited by him, adja cent:above inhabited by the widow of Weyntken Elis and her children and below the Inheriting Gijsbert Bruystensen.

• After the murder on Alert Gijsbertsz , Metken Walravens continues with four small children. She remarried on February 26, 1615 with Otto Harber ens .This implies the manslaughter in 1613 or 1614 must have taken place .Alerts father, as noted earlier (his bio), is guardian of the children and he concludes the following agreement with Otto Harberens:

• 27 februari 1619""So heeft den eersamen Ghijsbrecht Goevertsz als principael voogt, en momboir van de nagelaten Kijnderen zal(iger) Alaert Gijsbertsz......Oth Herberensz tot Herwijnen verhuurt...... onder Conditie toegedaen dat voorn. Pachter gehouden zal zijn: Maeijken het jongste kint van alaert zal(iger) agtergelaten, deze Pacht-jaren gedurende, in goede kost klederen etc. onderhouden zal ende vervolgens (ook) de twee kinderen of Soontgens Alaertsz voorz met namen Cornelis, en Geurt Alertsz gebroeders, ook te onderhouden,deze jaren uijt etc. was getekent (mij present Aert van Schijck, Secret.in Herwijnen) Gijsbert Goever tsz Oth van Herberensz Walraven van Hemert Anthonus Jansz HolAbraham Gijsbertsz"
• With this agreement, we get to know three of the four children of Alert and Metken. The fourth child, not mentioned here is already deceased. That Walraven van Hemert, whose wife Mary of Herwijnen is the chatelaine of Drakenburg ,on the side of Gijsbert Goertzen also signs , may indicate that the parcel belongs to the 'loan' of the Drakenburg. Abraham Gijsbertsz signs on the side of Otto Harberens , possible also on behalf of his sister in law. Anthonus Jansz Hol also sign he is the Sherrif of Herwijnen.
• Further family relationships become apparent from the signing of the marriage contract Alert's son , Geurt Alertsz and Engelken Ariens de Jongh on 3 June 1638.

Death

• Died before August 9, 1614 in Herwijnen, Gelderland, NTH
• Died before February 1615
• overl. voor 26-2-1615

Sources

• Rosa Herwijnen genealogie

Footnotes

1. ↑ (HBT no.1245, fol.111 vso)
2. ↑ (HBT no.1246, fol. 1246, fol.40 vso)
3. ↑ Van Rijckhuijsen MSS, Archive of Leijden, transcribed by Engel Roza)
4. ↑ Treffers, E.W., "Geslacht Boom der familie Roosa", Gens Nostra, 1982.
5. ↑ see: http://www.angelfire.com/mt/hist/
6. ↑ (Archive Provincial Court of Gelderland, no. 4830. Transcribed and translated by Peter Nouwt.)
7. ↑ (Judicial Archive of Tuil, no. 7, fol. 77vso.)
8. ↑ (Archive Provincial Audi-office of Gelderland, no. 5522, fol. 8.)
9. ↑ Archief Provinciaal Hof van Gelre, no.4830
10. ↑ van de Bank van Tuil en de Bank van Deil, samengesteld door Udo Verstege, rechter in de Tielerwaard (1615) (by a judge from Tielerwaard named Udo Verstege
11. ↑ (HBT 1245, fol.133 ) 13
12. ↑ (HBT 1245, fol. 184) 13
13. ↑ (HBT 1243 , fol. 61) 13

Acknowledgments

• This person was created on 14 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.