Van Boetzelaer

The family van (den) Boetzelaer is a Dutch noble family which originally comes from the area of ​​Kleve. It comes from the family of Galen.

History

Headquarters of the Galen family, the castle was Boetzelaer. There the family was established from the free nobility in the Middle Ages. The Knights were not the Count of Cleves committed what their claims to power was contrary. Determination was the conflict with the siege and capture of the castle 1396th

In 1256, a Wessel van den Boetzelaer along with his sons was mentioned. He and his descendants fought once for the Archbishop of Cologne, sometimes for the counts of Kleve. So the family was their allodial - the glory Boetzelaer - expand more and more. They were as Steward worked for the Count and put canons in the making and Utrecht monastery. 1359 handed Rutger van Boetzelaer William of Gennep, the Archbishop of Cologne, his possessions to Appeldorn and received it back as a fief. In 1361 he was elevated to knighthood. At the same time he continued to work for the Count and received in 1363 the Krudenburg. Meanwhile it to the Archbishop had also appointed bailiff of Aspel, a disputed area between Cologne and Cleves. In 1379 he should get the rule Boetzelaer by the Archbishop of Cologne as a fief.

From 1379 began Graf Adolf III. proceed from the mark against the Knights on the Rhine. 1392 had to leave the van Boetzelaer Krudenburg again. 1396 the castle fell Boetzelaer.

In the 15th century Rutger van den Boetzelaer married (* 1404, † 1460 ) the heiress of Langerack and Aperen, Elburg († 1489 ). With her ​​death, her son Wessel van den Boetzelaer inherited (* 1431) in the possession of the Dutch duchy of Guelders. He married Josina de Mol van Leetbergen († 1505). Your Son Rutger van den Boetzelaer († 1545 ) inherited Deurne with the little castle in 1499 by his mother. But he sold it to Henrick Taye († 1508), second husband of his mother, in whose line it inherited on. Wessels brother Sweder (* 1432, † after 1504) inherited the possessions in Cleves. So that the lines parted. The German line 1711 is extinct.

Wessel was an advocate of the Reformation and his son Rutger (* 1534, † 1604) supported William I, thus establishing the influence of the family.