Reinoud I van Brederode (English: Raynald) (
Santpoort, 1336–1390) was the 6th lord of
Brederode.
Life
He was a son of
Dirk III van Brederode
Dirk III van Brederode (ca. 1308 – Haarlem, 11 November 1377) was lord of Brederode.
Life
Family
Dirk III's grandfather Dirk II van Brederode (1256-1318) had two sons: Willem and Hendrik. Willem was the oldest, and married Elisabeth ...
and Beatrix van Heinsberg van Valkenberg. In 1358 Reinoud was appointed
bailiff
A bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French ''baillis'', ''bail'' "custody") is a manager, overseer or custodian – a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their offi ...
of
Kennemerland by
Albert I, count of Holland. In the same year an assassination attempt was made on him at Castricumerzand. On 11 November 1377 he succeeded his father as lord of Brederode. Reinoud supported Machteld of Guelders in her struggle for the
county of Guelders from 1371 to 1379.
Family
Reinoud married in 1366 with Jolanda van Gennep van der Eem, a daughter of Jan II van Gennep. They had at least four children:
*Dirk or Diederik (1370–1415), who decided to enter a monastic life in 1390, upon which his titles went to his brothers. He spent his life in a Carthusian monastery near
Arnhem.
*
Jan I van Brederode (1370/72–1415), 7th lord of Brederode, married Johanna van Abcoude. They both entered a monastic life in 1402, causing his younger brother to inherit the title of van Brederode.
*
Walraven I van Brederode Walraven I van Brederode (Santpoort, ca.1370/73 – Gorinchem, 1 December 1417) was Burgrave of Stavoren from 1400 to 1401, lord of van Brederode, Brederode from 1402 to 1417, and Stadtholder of County of Holland, Holland from 1416 to 1417.
Li ...
(1370/73–1417), 8th lord of Brederode, succeeded his older brother when he entered a monastic life.
*
William van Brederode, an admiral who offered his services mostly to the
Hook faction.
References
* Genealogie der Heren van Brederode, Yearbook CBG, part XII 1959, blz. 105
*
Johannes a Leydis Johannes a Leydis or Jan Gerbrandszoon van Leiden was a Dutch chronicler from the 15th century. A Leydis died in 1504.
Life
Not much is known with certainty about Johannes a Leydis' life. In all likelihood he came from a family of poorters (a speci ...
, Opusculum de gestis regalium abbatum monasterii sancti Athalberti ordinis sancti Benedicti in Egmonda (written between 1477 and 1484).
* Willem Procurator, (translated by M. Gumbert-Hepp; J.P. Gumbert (ed.), Kroniek. Hilversum, Publisher Verloren, 2001
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1336 births
1390 deaths
Reinoud 01
People from Velsen
14th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire