John I, Lord of Polanen ( – 26 September 1342) was Lord of Polanen, and Lord of
De Lek.
Life
John was a son of Philips III van Duivenvoorde (?-c. 1308) and Elisabeth van Vianen. Philips got the fief Polanen in
Monster, South Holland
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The village of Monster has a populat ...
in 1295. This was made inheritable by sons and daughters. John had a sister Kerstine and a bastard brother
Willem van Duvenvoorde.
Lord of Polanen
Upon the death of his father, John I became Lord of
Polanen Castle. In his early years, John got help from his uncle Diederik van der Wale. In 1311 John got possession of a windmill in Monster. In the early 1320s he got possession of
tithe
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s in Monster,
Delft
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,
Maasland, and
Schipluiden. The help of his half-brother helped John a lot. In 1326, he got the lordships of Krimpen aan de Merwede,
Krimpen aan den IJssel,
Ouderkerk, and
Zuidbroek in pawn.
Lord of Heemskerk
In 1327 John bought
Oud Haerlem Castle
Oud Haerlem Castle was a very strong castle in Holland. In 1351 it was demolished after a long siege.
Location
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and the lordships () of Heemskerk and Castricum. The price was only 100 pounds.
In 1328 John took part in the
Battle of Cassel. He was probably knighted on that occasion. In 1329 he was mentioned as such, when he got a castle in
De Lier and the promise that he could succeed to the lordship of Geertruidenberg and the office of castellan of
Geertruidenberg Castle if his half brother would die without legal issue.
John was
bailiff
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Another official sometimes referred to as a '' ...
of some areas for considerable time. In 1331 he was bailiff of
Woerden, in 1331 and 1336 of
Rijnland, and in 1339 he became bailiff of
Kennemerland and
West Friesland.
John and his wife had a tombstone in the choir of the church of Monster. The text on this stone was mentioned in a book. In print, the year MCCCXLII was rendered as MCCCXVII.
Marriage and issue
In 1322 John married Catharina van
Van Brederode (died 1372). They had:
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John II, Lord of Polanen.
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Philips I, Lord of Polanen.
* Dirk van Polanen
* Gerard van Polanen
* Heilwich van Polanen married Aernt van Arkel lord of Noordeloos
* Maria van Polanen married 1) Viscount Jan of Montfoort (-1345) 2) Gerrit van Heemstede
While John II succeeded his father as lord of Polanen, he gave the lordship of Polanen in arrear-fief to his younger brother Philips on 17 November 1345.
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Notes
External links
Entry at genealogieonline.nl
13th-century births
Year of birth unknown
1342 deaths
House of Polanen
Lords of Breda
14th-century nobility from the Holy Roman Empire
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