Petrus or Pieter van der Aa, (1530 – 1594) also called Vanderanus was a Brabantine jurist.

Biography

Petrus van der Aa was born in

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. His father, Johan van der Aa, was a descendant of a well-known Brabantine family of

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, which had settled in Leuven,

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and

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. While his biographers disagree on some events in his life, it is considered that Petrus studied in

and achieved his ''Doctor iuris utriusque'' in 1559. Three years later he was given a professorship in the same town, when his predecessor, Johannes Tack, moved to

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. In 1565 or 1569 he became a member of the Sovereign Council of

Duchy of Brabant The Duchy of Brabant was a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries, part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Neth ...

. In 1574, he became president of the Higher Regional Court of

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and

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. He continued in this office until his death in 1594. Petrus van der Aa acquired the title ''

eques auratus Eques auratus (Latin for "gilded knight"; abbreviated eq. aur.) may refer to: * Knight Bachelor in the English/British honours system * Knight of the Golden Spur (Holy Roman Empire) The Knights of the Golden Spur (Latin ''equites aurati Sancti ...

(Knight of the Golden Spur)'' on 30 October 1583.

Publications

* ''Prochiron sive Enchiridon Judiciarum'', 1558, includes a preface ''De ordine judiciario apud veteres usitato''. * ''De privilegiis creditorum commentarius, ad Joachimum Hopperum'', 1560, reprinted in ''Tractatus Tractatuum, Vol. XVIII'' and ''Nov. Thesaurus II''.

Sources

* Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie - online version at

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Winkler Prins' Geïllustreerde encyclopaedie, 1905, page 2
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