The Van Cuijck van Meteren [VCVM]
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(tentatively assembled from
~vm/manor, ~vm/history, and some supposition by the compiler:
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Notes
NL = nobility lists; JD = Justice in Deil (Deijl); BOM = born or lived in Bommelerwaard
"Nobility" lists also called "knighthood" or "chivalry."
In ~vm/manor, Johan van Meteren is said to be the heir of "Johan van Ciujck Meteren" [sic]—along with Otto van Haaften or Haeften, whom ~vm/history says married Walburg van Cuij[c]k van Meteren (born in 1506). No connection is provided by either source to the main VCVM tree.
We might suppose (as I do above, with red dotted lines) that Johan, Walburg, and Jasper [I] were all siblings, the children of Johan VCVM—who in turn might have been the brother of Cornelia VCVM (born circa 1478), who married Otto van Beesd.
This last couple appears on several webgens—e.g. ~athens/oracle and ~randall—transmuted into "Cornelius van Meteren and Otto van Beeste"—with Otto as the wife of Cornelis (son of Jasper [II]) and mother of Captain Johan.
It is nowhere stated that Melchior and Aert were the sons of Johan; but Johan "had a suit against the Count van Buuren, on account of a flood in the Wall"—i.e. the river Waal—documented in Nijmegen district court letters dated 1546-47; and the same lawsuit was pursued as late as 1565 by Melchior and Aert, as one might expect of sons-and-heirs. Aert was married to Margriet van Renoy and had a "natural daughter" Jenneke.
~vm/history, on the other hand, states that Melchior and Aert were the youngest sons (born 1544 and 1545 respectively) of Sir Jacobus van Meteren of Antwerp—but neither Melchior nor Aert appears on the ~vm/history's Antwerp tree, or in the mostly-parallel Dutch webgen ~jabberwocky.
For further confusion, in ~vm/manor Melchior and "Avert" are said to be "well to do at Deijl" in 1610—along with Jasper [III] (brother of Cornelis, Johan, and Willem).
Nor it it clear which Melchior is supposed to appear on the nobility lists for 1615-24. Is it Aert's brother, who was first listed back in 1570? (~vm/manor actually states "1673, 1570.") Or an interim Melchior, living "well to do at Deijl" in 1610? Or the youngest Melchior, husband of Anneke Ariens, born in 1590?
~vm/manor gives Jan, the second son of Jasper [II], a 1513 deathdate—a typo for 1613? Jan left a widow, Catelijn Fransdochter van Hullenberg; they had a son Jan "who died previous to his father, after which his father's brother Johan van Meteren made himself master of his brother's estate" (a sample of ~vm/manor's syntax). But if Jasper [II] had a living son named Jan, why would he have named another son Johan—both being diminutives of Johannus (John)? It may be that Jan did die in 1513, and belongs to an earlier generation—perhaps as another supposed sibling to Jasper [I], Walburg and Johan.
Willem is said to be "brother of Cornelia," but that must be a typo for "Cornelis" since Jasper [II] is said to have had only one daughter: Maria, who married Hendrick van Lauwenberg at Aken. (~vm/history's tree displays Cornelia—born 1577, a generation after her brothers—but not Maria.)
The lists of Cornelis's daughters differ as to whether there were two (and if so which two) or three. ("Geertruida/e," "Maria/e" = "Geertruida or Geertruide," "Maria or Marie.")
Diske or Dirsken is also called "Dirksken" (just as her husband Johan is sometimes called "Johnan"). ~bodine/n3878 indicates that they were first cousins (also that Captain Johan was born c.1555 and died c.1621, both in "Neimegen" [Nijmegen]). Some of Diske's entries in ~vm/manor make it appear than she was married to her husband's uncle Johan, the brother of Cornelis and Willem.
Money had to be collected on August 6, 1626, to get Adriaan/Adriaen out of prison.
The ~vm/manor entry for Johan the brother of Melchior, Balthasar, and Adriaan/Adriaen, appears to actually be for their father Captain Johan—including his bequeathing Meteren Manor to Balthasar, "Lord of Tuyl" (or Tuyll: is this Tiel?) in 1641.
If Melchior, supposedly Balthasar's elder brother, was alive till 1650-51, why was the Manor left to Balthasar?
Hendrik is also called Hendrix (by ~vm/history) and Henrich. In 1622 he received from "his brother Johan" all property left to him by their father "situated in the direction of Deijl." But their father (here again called "Johnan") was still alive in 1622.
All information on the final generation of Van Cuijck van Meterens comes from ~vm/manor; Hendrik/Hendrix was the last of the family that ~vm/history could find.
Melchior's daughter Anna had two sons by Willem van Haeften: Arnold and Joan/Johan van Haeften, over whom Anna's brother Gosswin (Goosen, Gooswin) was guardian circa 1667.
Balthasar's son Jo(h)an approved his father's sale or transfer of Meteren Manor to Adriaan's son—also called Jo(h)an—in 1653/55. Adriaan's son Jo(h)an was said to be a Captain and "commander of Woudrichem and Loavestein."
Balthasar's daughters: Anna Margarita was herself a squire (Jonkvrouw); Cornelia and Catherine lived in Meteren; and their eldest sister Josina Elesabeth was "Baroness of Zaessen in Poland."
Hendrik's children: Gerard was a "soldier in the company of Captain
Moisonneuve." Adriana married Hendrik van Dijck circa 1650.
Maximiliaen married Jonkvrouw Clara Ermgardt de Firi.
~vm/manor concludes with an extra-garbled account of Hendrik's
children's resigning an inheritance from their great-aunt Johanna van der
Brugg (unless it was from their great-aunt Baelken van
Orten).
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