Walter of Ghent (de Gand dit Villain) (died before 1260) was the second son of
Hugues I and Odette de Champagne, daughter of
Odo II of Champlitte Odo II of Champlitte, (died May 1204 at the Siege of Constantinople) was the first son of Odo or Eudes I of Champlitte and a grandson of Hugh, Count of Champagne, although Hugh disowned Odo I.
At an assembly at Citeaux, Odo, and his brother Willia ...
. Hugues married Lady Avezoete, daughter of Abraham and perhaps of the house of Maelstede. Although his brother inherited the lordship of Heusden and Bornhem, he received the lordship of
Sint Jansteen
Sint Jansteen is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Hulst, and lies about 31 km southwest of Bergen op Zoom.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1248 as Sancti Ioannis ad Lapidem, and m ...
. He took the name Villain, a name synonymous with peasant or farm boy.
[Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 9, Part 1, Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, M. Hayez, 1842]
Avezoete and Walter had a very large family. Their children included:
* Johannes (died before August 1262)
* Alexander, married Ysabeau d' Axelle
* Walter
* Sohier
* Isabelle, married Jean Robert Van Den Kerchove Van Ter-Varent
* Phillippe
* Williames
* Odine, married Henri de Westhuse
* Katerine
Notes
13th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
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