Arbre généalogique Kroon en Telleman » Jan Riemens (± 1610-1678)

Données personnelles Jan Riemens 

• Il est né environ 1610 dans Axel of Belgie.
• Professions:
• à partir du 1647 soldaet onder de compagnie van d'Heer Commandeur Broucqsoult.Source 1

  is genoteerd bij het huwelijk met Magdalena Janse de Btuins

• à partir du 2 novembre 1650 sluiswachter en schutter, parochiebode.Source 2

  Wordt sluiswacher van de pas gereed gekomen Dijkage van Zaamslag en annexe polders.
  Een schutter spoorde los lopen vee op en bracht ze weer bij elkaar.
  Beide aanstellingen werden gedaan door de dijkgraaf en zijn gezworenen, hij verdiende 4 ponden groot vlaams per jaar (=24 Nederlandse guldens)
  Hij was tevens parochiebode van Zaamslag en blijkens het begraafregister heeft hij dat tot aan zijn overlijden gedaan.

• Entrée: historical context of Jan, written by Donn Meindertsma.Source 3

  Context
  
  Jan and Magdalena married in February 1647 (see record below) in the village of Axel, in the province of Zeeland, after each had lost their first spouse. Birth records have not been located. Presumably both were born in or near Axel. At that time, Axel was part of the Dutch Republic. (The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and commonly referred to as the Dutch Republic, was a federal republic that existed from 1579 to 1795 (the Batavian Revolution). It was a predecessor state of the Netherlands and the first fully independent Dutch nation state. Historically, the County of Zeeland (Dutch: Graafschap Zeeland) had been a county of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries. It covered an area in the Scheldt and Meuse delta roughly corresponding to the modern Dutch province of Zeeland. But that was long before Jan was born. See map of the Seventeen Provinces (photo)
  
  Jan's marriage to Magdalena coincided with the end, in 1648, of the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the United Provinces (as well as the conclusion of the broader European Thirty Years' War). Axel had featured early on in the Eighty Years' War because it was an important fortified city on the southwestern edge of the Scheldt estuary. The Spaniards took the city in 1583, when Alexander Farnese, the later Duke of Parma, captured it. An Anglo-Dutch force retook the city in 1586. The map (see photos) shows the boundary of the Netherlands in 1648.
  
  According to the remarks included in the record of Jan's second marriage, he was a soldier under the company of one "van der Heer, Commandeur Broucqsout," presumably a leader during the final years of the war.
  
  Religion
  
  The 17th Century was the Golden Age in the Netherlands, which became a wealthy, and officially Calvinistic, nation. The extent to which Jan and Magdalena benefitted from that wealth is unknown, but they did become members of the reformed church (Nederduits Gereformeerd).
  
  Calvinism, as a wave of the Reformation, arrived in the Netherlands in the 1540s. Part of both the elite and commoners, mostly in Flanders, adopted this influence. Then in control of the Low Countries, the Spanish government, under Philip II, started harsh persecution campaigns, supported by the Inquisition of the Catholic Church, as Protestantism was seen as threatening the royal government. In reaction to this persecution, the Calvinists rebelled. In the Beeldenstorm in 1566, they conducted iconoclasm, destroying statues, paintings, and other religious depictions and artifacts in churches. Also in 1566, William the Silent, Prince of Orange, a convert to Calvinism, started the Eighty Years' War to liberate the Calvinist Dutch from the Catholic Spaniards.
  
  The counties of Holland and Zeeland were conquered by Calvinists in 1572. Numerous residents were already Calvinist in Holland and Zeeland at that time, but the other states were still almost entirely Catholic. The estates of Holland decided to support William the Silent. All churches in the Calvinist territories became Calvinist and most of the population in these territories converted to or were forced to convert to Calvinism.
  
  Philip II of Spain was the hereditary ruler of the Netherlands. As a devout Catholic, Philip believed he was obligated to fight Protestantism, which also threatened his rule. After the Beeldenstorm, he sent troops to suppress Protestantism in the Netherlands. The Spanish conquered the southern Netherlands (Flanders and Brabant). Protestants in this area, many of them prosperous merchants, fled to Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland. An extreme example was the city of Hondschoote, where the population dropped from 18,000 to 385 inhabitants. Antwerp, formerly the most powerful city in the Low Countries, lost more than half its residents to this exodus.
  
  Civil war broke out in the 1610s between strict and liberal Calvinists. The liberal States of Holland left the Republic. The strict Calvinist side won (Prince Maurice of Orange and the other provinces). Calvinism became the de facto state religion. Only Calvinists (and, in some cases, Jews) were allowed to hold political office. Other Christian denominations were mostly tolerated, although discriminated against, and believers were not allowed to practice their religion in public. Judaism was allowed in public, and Lutheranism only in larger cities. It was permitted only on the condition of the congregations maintaining Calvinist church interior styles, without having crucifixes, as were still displayed in Scandinavian Lutheran cathedrals.
  
  Jan died in February 1678. The remarks in the death record indicate that he was a "messenger and shooter in Zaamslag." Note that descendants of Jan and Magdalena eventually used the surname Riemers instead of Riemens.

• Il est décédé le 2 février 1678 dans Zaamslag.Source 4
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 1 novembre 2022.

Famille de Jan Riemens

(1) Il est marié avec Josyne van der Sijp.

Ils se sont mariés à l'église environ 1632.Source 5

Enfant(s):

1. Josijna Jans Riemens  ????-1696

(2) Il est marié avec Magdalena Janse de Bruijne.

Ils se sont mariés à l'église le 23 février 1647 à Axel.Source 6

1647-02-23
Jan Riemens wedr. van Josyne van der Syp, soldaet onder de compagnie van d?Heer Commandeur Broucqsout met
Madalena de Bruijne wed. van Boudewijn Boutersen

Enfant(s):

1. Jan (Johannis) Janse Riemens  1648-< 1719 
2. Magdalena Janse Riemens  ± 1649-1712
3. Pieter Jansz Riemens  1650-1703
4. Maatje Jans Riemens  ± 1651-1704 

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