[MANUSCRIPT - SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE]. ANDRIESSEN, Adriaen...

Uytsprake van Soeninge 1491 [and in a later hand:] Originele Zoenbrief gesloten en uitgesproken den 20 July des jaars 1491 in tegenwoordigheid van schepenen der staad Vere en wederzijdsche arbiters tusschen de vrienden van Kornelie Jansdogter en die van Adriaan Andriessen door gemelde Kornelie Jansdogter van 't leven ter dood gebragt. Opgestelt door den Notaris Willem Amoury.Veere (Zeeland), 20 July 1491. Folio (29 x 21.5 cm).WITH: [MANUSCRIPTS - GENEALOGY]. ANDRIESSEN, Jacobus, Jaques der KINDEREN and others.[Ten documents concerning the Andriessen, Der Kinderen, Saelder, Van Audenaarde an...

      (12) pp. with the main text on pp. 3-11; and 10 separate documents of varying extent. For several members of this Andriessen family, see: NNBW I, cols. 137-139, 141-142, etc.A collection of genealogical and other documents from the Andriessen family in Zeeland, beginning with a 1491 notarial document from Veere (near Middelburg), settling the dispute between two families over an accidental killing. Shortly before the document was drawn up, Cornelie Jansdochter had caused the death (clearly accidentally, though that is not explicitly stated) of Adriaen Andriessen, leading to a conflict between the two families. At the request of Cornelie and her family, the families met before arbiters to settle the matter. The arbiters required Cornelie to honour God and cleanse Andriessen's soul by making a pilgrimage to Rome (quite a dangerous undertaking in those days), where she was to visit the pontificate of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, remain in Rome seven days, visiting each of the Seven Churches of Rome, one on each day, have a mass said at each and listen to it on her knees. She was also to bring back proof that she had done so. She was to have masses read for a year at Andriessen's grave and have masses said for him in Veere (where a collection was to be taken). She also had to pay for a cross for his grave, pay sums of money to his heirs and to others chosen at the discretion of the arbiters. The sums are specified in guilders and Flemish pounds totalling about 188 guilders, perhaps three years' wages for an unskilled worker or the value of 300 grams of gold. Finally Cornelie was no longer allowed to live in Veere or nearby Zanddijk, though she was allowed to pass through.The document survives with later documents on the genealogy of the Zeeland family Andriessen (who must have been related to the Andriessen of 1491, or at least thought they were), including well-known Dutch Reformed ministers, who compiled some of the documents. It also covers several families related to the Andriessens by marriage. The documents record births, baptisms (often including the names of the godparents and clergy), marriages, deaths, etc., mostly from the period 1630 to 1710, but including records from at least 1584 to 1753. Some of these documents were drawn up by the Middelburg-born Dutch Reformed minister Jacobus Andriessen (1673-1739) and record his own family (descendents of Andries Andriessen on the paternal and Jaeques or Jacobus der Kinderen on maternal side of his father's family) and the family of his wife, Adriana Saelder (descendents of Kornelis Saelder on the paternal side of her father's family). Others were drawn up by Jaeques der Kinderen (married 1625) and his son of the same name (born 1649), the earliest probably around 1657, but with events added to 1670. The latest document in the collection, from around 1730, is by Jacobus Andriessen's son and fellow minister Andries Andriessen (1699-1768), the best known member of the family, giving data on the descendents of Ritser Feres (died 1664), great-grandfather of his wife, Catharina Johanna van Royen.The watermark in all three sheets of the 1491 document (a gothic P) closely resembles Picard IV, group VIII, nos. 428-431, recorded in the Rhine valley in the years 1489 to 1492. The documents have been folded vertically and loosely inserted in nineteenth-century boards with a heart-shaped paper label on the front. They are in very good condition. A nice record of how fifteenth-century Zeelanders dealt with an accidental killing, with useful genealogical documents from seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Zeeland.