Erasmus II Schetz sometimes Scets died 1550 was a Flemish nobleman.

Lord of Grobbendonk

He was born as son of Conrad I Schetz who married in 1485 to Maria Crans di Roscara, daughter of Mathieu Roscara. He lived in Maastricht, and came to Antwerp for financial reasons. He acquired the Heerlijkheid of Grobbendonk on the 3 Juny 1545, he paid it from Philippe, Lord of Jauche. His descendants are known as Schetz de Grobbendonk, when it became a barony in 1602. He married Ida of Rechtergem, daughter of a wealthy

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trader in Aachen. They had 4 sons, three of them named after the

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. His fortune was immense, he had a residence called ''Huis van Aken'', heritage (1534) of his father in law. He had the house extended into a small palace where

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visited in 1545. After the death of Erasmus, the house was sold in 1575. The heirs decided to lower the price : Gaspard gifted 500 Ducats reduction to the Jesuits. The final amount paid was 17.000 ducats to the heirs of Erasmus. Next to this house the Jesuits built later the

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. Around 1540, he acquired Engenho dos Erasmos, a sugar cane facility at São Vicente Island in present day

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. Erasmus educated his sons in the style of humanism. His son Gaspard attended the

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, and studied with Eobanus Hessus.

Descendants

His three sons were together one of the most important factors of Antwerp, their wealth was so vast the future generations could benefit from this. #

Gaspard II Schetz Gaspar Schetz (1513–1580), Lord of Grobbendonk, Hereditary Marshal of Brabant was a financier and statesman in the Habsburg Netherlands. For reasons that are unknown he was nicknamed "Corvinus". Life Gaspar Schetz was born in Antwerp on 20 July ...

(1513-1580) : died 1580: Lord of Hoboken since 1559, Grobbendonk and Hinghene. #

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, (1520-1586): Lord of Hoboken in 1545. Marr. to Margherete van Straelen. # Conrard Schetz (1527-1577), Marr. to Maria of Brimeu, mentioned in ''plantarum seu stirpium historia'' daughter of Jacques, Lord of Poederlee in 1536.http://www.floraiberica.es/floraiberica/texto/pdfs/20_183_22_Brimeura.pdf Had two daughters. ## Julianne Schetz, married to Robrecht Tucher, knight and Lord mayor of Antwerp. # Maria Schetz # Isabeau Schetz # Joanne Schetz, Lady

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References

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