Willem van Brederode (1226/30 in
Santpoort – 3 June 1285 in
Velsen) was Lord of
Brederode.
Life
He was the son of
Dirk I van Brederode and Alvaradis van Heusden. William was only recognised as lord of Brederode in 1244, partially because he was a minor before that. Van Brederode accompanied
William II, Count of Holland in his campaign against rebels above the
Rhine in the
Ruhr
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in 1248/49, and again in a campaign against the
West Frisians in 1256. He was knighted in 1255, and appointed
bailiff
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of
Kennemerland in 1269. On 25 June 1282 he was awarded the rights to
Goudriaan,
Hardinxveld,
Papendrecht, Peursum and Slingeland. William died in 1285 and was buried in the Brederode-chapel of the Engelmundus-church in Velsen.
Family and Children
In 1254 William married Hildegonde van Voorne, and they had six children:
*
Dirk II van Brederode Dirk van Brederode ( 1256, Santpoort – 16 December 1318, Rheims
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, 1256–1318, William's successor
*Alverade van Brederode, 1258 – after 1323
*Rikairde van Brederode, ca. 1263 – after 1303
*Floris I (Florentius) van Schoten (Adrichem), ca. 1265 – 1327
*Aleid van Brederode, 1260–1333
*Theodoricus de Scouten, before 1297 – unknown
*William Ver Margrietsone van Brederode, unknown – after 1317
*Theodorius van Schoten, 1270 – unknown
References
*
Johannes a Leydis, Opusculum de gestis regalium abbatum monasterii sancti Athalberti ordinis sancti Benedicti in Egmonda (written between 1477 and 1484).
* Willem Procurator, (translated M. Gumbert-Hepp; J.P. Gumbert (ed.), Kroniek. Hilversum, Publisher Verloren, 2001
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1285 deaths
William I
Year of birth uncertain
People from Velsen
13th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire