Teisterbant was a
pagus
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(province) of
Lotharingia
Lotharingia ( la, regnum Lotharii regnum Lothariense Lotharingia; french: Lotharingie; german: Reich des Lothar Lotharingien Mittelreich; nl, Lotharingen) was a short-lived medieval successor kingdom of the Carolingian Empire. As a more durable ...
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Middle Francia
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. It was located in the present-day
Netherlands
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, bordered by the rivers
Lek and
Waal
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.
Modern-day West-Betuwe (the southern part of the province of
Gelderland
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) shares most of the same land including towns such as
Batenburg
Batenburg is a city in the municipality of Wijchen, in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located on the Meuse, about 15 km west of Nijmegen. It is well known for the remains of a medieval fort in the center of the town. Batenburg receive ...
,
Vianen
Vianen () is a city and a former municipality in the central Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It is located south of the Lek River. Before 2002 it was part of the province of South Holland. Vianen is made up of a historic town centre tha ...
,
Tiel
Tiel () is a municipality and a town in the middle of the Netherlands. The town is enclosed by the Waal river and the Linge river to the South and the North, and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal to the East. Tiel comprises the population centres Kapel- ...
,
Culemborg
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,
Geldermalsen
Geldermalsen () is a town and former municipality in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.
Town of Geldermalsen
The town centre of Geldermalsen contains a two-aisled Gothic church dating from the 15th century, with a Romanesque towe ...
. The historic fiefdoms of
Altena
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,
Arkel
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In 2017, the village o ...
,
Buren
Buren () is a town and municipality in the Betuwe region of the Netherlands.
Buren has 27,168 inhabitants as of 1 January 2022.
Geography
Buren is located in Gelderland, a province of the Netherlands. It is part of the landscape of Betuwe, a ...
,
Heusden
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and
Vianen
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were also part of it.
History
The name Teisterbant probably comes from
Celtic, meaning 'right' (compare ''teister'' with the
Latin
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''dexter'', which means 'right'). This makes it the counterpart of Swifterbant, 'located on the left'. In the 8th century, it was a well-known area. From 843 (after the
Treaty of Verdun
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) to the death of
Lothair II in 869, Teisterbant was ruled by
Middle Francia
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. In 870, following the
Treaty of Meerssen
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, Teisterbant came to Lothair's uncle
Louis the German
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and became part of
East Francia.
After expelling the
Normans
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by the
East Frankish
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king
Arnulf of Carinthia on August 4, 889, Count
Gerolf of Holland
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was given
full ownership of a number of lands and properties. He was given several farms and houses in
Tiel
Tiel () is a municipality and a town in the middle of the Netherlands. The town is enclosed by the Waal river and the Linge river to the South and the North, and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal to the East. Tiel comprises the population centres Kapel- ...
,
Aalborg, and
Asch Asch may refer to:
People
* Asch (surname)
*''Asch.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834–1913), German botanist
Places
* Aš, Czech Republic
* Asch (Netherlands), a village
Other uses
* Asch the Bloody, a ...
, among others. He was also granted additional property in his own county, consisting of a forest and agricultural lands, situated somewhere between the mouth of the
Old Rhine and (presumably)
Bennebroek
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History
Be ...
. Gerolf had two sons, Waldger and Dirk. Dirk's descendants became the counts of Holland. Waldger was count of Teisterbant from 898-928.
He was succeeded by his son Radboud, possibly also called "Poppo".
At the end of the 10th century the area came into the possession of Count
Ansfried of
Huy
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.
Around 985 he gave up his belongings to live in a monastery. In 994 he was elected
bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...
of
Utrecht
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. On April 11, 999,
Holy Roman Emperor Otto III
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Otto III was crowned as King of Ge ...
was given the royal property that "Poppo, son of Wedigeri" in Teisterbant had borrowed from the church of Utrecht.
The title count of Teisterbant went to Ansfried's cousin Unruoch (Hunerik), possibly father of
Herman van Malsen, ancestor of the lords of
Cuijk
Cuijk (; dialect: ''Kuuk'') is a town in the northeastern part of the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. It is the successor of a Roman settlement on the west bank of the Meuse, 13 km (8 mi) south of Nijmegen. Cuijk, which had a po ...
.
In 1026
Adalbold II acquired the title of count of Teisterbant.
The
diocese
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History
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had already acquired several lands, which formed the basis for the
Episcopal principality of Utrecht
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.
Parts were issued in loan to the counties of
Cleves
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and
Guelders, as well as several honors.
Eventually, Teisterbant lost its sovereignty to the diocese, and Teisterbant disappeared from the map.
Later, the area became a zone of contention between the dukes of Brabant and Gelre, because of its strategic location.
Things named after Teisterbant
* There is a fortified house holding the name Teisterbant in the village
Kerk-Avezaath
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A small part of the village (not counted in the statistics above) is part of the municipality of Tie ...
, located in the
Betuwe. The local football association in this village is called the "v.v. Teisterbanders", and there is a Teisterbant Street (''Teisterbantstraat'').
* In the Maasdrielse Kerkdriel on the Teisterbantstraat, "House Teisterbant" (''Huis Teisterbant'') was built on the remains of the outhouse of
Count Ansfried van Teisterbant. This noble castle is a large rectangular house. In 1399 the house was mentioned in sources as the 'Huys to Driel'. Many generations of the Van Driel family of the Dukes of Gelre lived here. Only later did it get its current name.
* The
Teisterbant club
The Teisterbant club was the name of an artists' society in Haarlem that flourished between 1950 and 1973.
In 1949 the Haarlem writer Godfried Bomans sent out a pamphlet inviting "art practitioners, art-lovers and those interested in art" to join ...
, founded by
Godfried Bomans
Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans (2 March 1913 – 22 December 1971) was a Dutch author and television personality. Much of his work remains untranslated into English.
Life and career
Godfried Bomans was born in The Hague and grew up in and arou ...
, was named for the pseudonym "Count of Teisterbant" (''graaf van Teisterbant''), used by author
Willem Bilderdijk
Willem Bilderdijk () (7 September 1756 – 18 December 1831) was a Dutch poet, historian, lawyer, and linguist.
Life
Willem Bilderdijk was born on 7 September 1756 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic.Joris van Eijnatten,Bilderdijk, W., ''Bio- en ...
.
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