Many romantic stories begin
in the shadow of a castle and the history of the
Eggink name and family obviously begins at such
a place. For those of us who like to travel back and forth in time
this is important as a point of reference so we can know where we came
from, where we are, and where we are going. Should you be interested in
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In studing the Eggink heritage
we will discover many little known facts about the development of democracy
as the Bible was translated from Hebrew Greek and Latin into the languages
of the common people. The Eggink ancestors were very
much a part of that process.
Augustus reforms the
Roman monetary and taxation systems issuing new, almost pure gold and silver
coins, and new brass and copper ones, and also introduces three new
taxes:a general sales tax, a land tax, and a
flat-rate
poll tax.
The officer formerly known by the name of elder, bishop,
or presbyter (terms exactly synonymous in the New Testament) became now
distinguished by the
elevation of the bishop above his brethren, and each of the above
terms was carried out into a distinction of places in the Christian church.
[See Lord Barrington’s Essay on the distinction between the apostles, elders,
&c. vol. i. pp. 61 and 252; and vol. ii. p. 4.]
Arius was a parish priest, the pastor of Baucalis Church
in Alexandria. He was known locally for making Christianity understandable,
especially by witty rhymes set to catchy tunes. Even the dockhands on the
wharves in Alexandria could hum these ditties while unloading fish.
Arius is ordained a presbyter by bishop Achillas of Alexandria,
successor to Peter, who was martyred in 311.
Sometime between 311 and 318,
Eusebius of Caesarea becomes bishop of Caesarea.
Old corrupt interests were incorporated by an act of the
emperor’s. Constantine convenes the Council of Nicaea
in order to
develop a statement of faith that can unify the Church. The Nicene Creed
is written, declaring that the Father and the Son are of the same substance
(homoousios), thereby taking a decidedly anti-Arian stand. Arius is exiled
to Illyria.
336
Arius dies suddenly in Constantinople on the
evening before a formal ceremony was to restore him to his presbyterial
rank.
First record of the baptism of a child , when Galetes, the
dying son of the emperor Valens was baptized, by order of a monarch
who swore he would not be contradicted.
[Robin. Resear. p. 55]
A law, probably framed under Auxentius'
influence, was promulgated (CTh. 16.1.4) which declared freedom of worship
for Arians
412
Cyril
was ordained bishop of the catholic church in Alexandra. One of his first
acts, was to shut up the churches of the Novatianists, to strip
them of all their sacred vessels and ornaments. They experienced very similar
treatment at Rome, from Innocent, who was one of the first bishops
to persecute the Dissenters and rob them of their churches
432
Celestines,
one of Innocent’s successors, A.D., . He took possession of all the Novatianists
churches in the city of Rome, and compelled them to worship in private
houses, in the most obscure places.
On the 23rd of August, an end was put to all persecutionof
the Novatians in Italy, by the subjection of that kingdom to the
Goths, whose laws breathed the purest spirit
of equal and universal liberty
600
Paterines
The Paterines preserved the truth in the dioceses
of Milan and Turin."The public religion of the Paterines consisted of nothing
but social prayer, reading and expounding the gospels, baptism once, and
the Lord’s supper as often as convenient. Italy was full of such Christians,
which bore various names, from various causes. They said a Christian
church ought to consist of only good people: a church had no power to frame
any constitutions, i.e., make laws; it was not right to take oaths; it
was not lawful to kill mankind, nor should he be delivered up to the officers
of justice to be converted; faith alone could save a man; the benefit of
society belonged to all its members; the church ought not to persecute;
the law of Moses was no rule for Christians." The Catholics of
those times baptized by immersion; the Paterines, therefore, in all their
branches, made no complaint of the action of baptism; but when they were
examined, they objected vehemently against the baptism
of infants, and condemned it as an error. [Rob. Bap. p. 211, where authorities
are quoted largely]
754
754, Stephen, bishop of Rome,
was requested, by some monks who privately consulted him, to say, whether
in case of illness baptism by pouring could be lawful. He was the first
who gave the opinion of its validity, which consequently became authentic
law for administering the baptism by pouring. Rob. Bap. pp. 128-9.]
946
Atto, bishop of Vercilli, complained of the Patrines . There was no legal power in Italy, in those times,
to put dissenters to death.Claude,
bishop of Turin, was a Spaniard, Arian, and Catholic, yet he loudly
proclaimed his view of truth, in opposition to the errors of the times.
All these were incorporated into the churches of Italy, and were now known
by the term Paterines;
"upheld the symbolic character of the
Eucharist and the superiority of the Bible over tradition"
1075
King Geysa I of Hungary in 1075
endowed the Benedictine cloister in Gran which he founded with the
reference to "ultra silvam" the salina (salt mine) near Thorenburg
and with half of the royal income "in loco, qui dicitur hungarice Aranas,
latine autem Aureus"
1045 The Paterines in Milan
raised a protest against simony and other abuses of the clergy,
and Pope Gregory VII did not hesitate to enlist their Puritanism
on the side of the papacy and make them his allies in imposing clerical
celibacy.
GUNDULPHUS appears to have had many admirers Having given some
persons in his connection a portion of spiritual instruction, he sent them
forth as itinerants to preach the gospel. Some of his followers were arrested
in Flanders; and on their examination, they acknowledged they were
followers of Gundulphus."They are charged,. with abhorring baptism:
i.e., the Catholic baptism." These disciples said in reply, "The law and
discipline we have received of our master will not appear contrary either
to the gospel decrees or apostolical institutions, if carefully looked
into. This discipline consists in leaving the world, in bridling carnal
concupiscence, in providing a livelihood by the labor of our hands, in
hurting nobody, and affording charity to all, &c. This is the sum
of our justification to which the use of baptism can superadd nothing.
But if any say that some sacrament lies hid in baptism, the force of it
is taken off by three causes. Ist. Because the reprobate life of
ministers can afford no saving remedy to the persons baptized. 2ndly.
Because whatever sins are renounced at the font, are afterwards taken up
again in life and practice. 3rdly. Because a strange will, a strange
faith, and strange confession, do not seem to belong to a little child,
who neither wills nor runs, who knoweth nothing of faith, and is altogether
ignorant of his own good and salvation, in whom there can be no desire
of regeneration, and from whom no confession of faith can be expected."
[Pied. Ch., oh. 11, pp. 94-5] That these people held views on the ordinances
similar to the Baptists of modern times, is allowed by all respectable
writers. "They were wellmeaning and honest, though ignorant and illiterate
men," says Dr. Jortin. [Rem. on Ecc. Hist., vol. v., p. 27, and Milner’s
Ch. Hist., c. 11, ch. 2]
1082
Godefroi de Bouillon, son ofEustace
de Boulogne and UIda of Ardenne, and nephew of Godefroi
the Hunchback, inherited the duchy of Lower Lorraine
.Tanner, Heather J. "Between Scylla and Charybdis: The
Political Roleof the Comital Family of Boulogne in Northern France and
England (879-1159)." Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa
Barbara, 1993.
The
bishops of France wrote to the Pope that, Everywhere in our cities and
villages, not only in our schools but at the street corners, learned and
ignorant, great and small, are discussing the gravest mysteries.
The First Chapter of the
Eggink history begins in Warnsveld, seat of the Counts of Zutphen, between
the Ijssel and Berkel rivers in the well watered, wooded portion
of the eastern Netherlands called "De Achterhoek".
1184
GERMANY:
Diet of Mainz, zenith of Frederick Barbarossa's power as Holy Roman Emperor
ROME:
Pope declares dissenting Christian groups heretical (Cathari, Albigensians,
Waldensians)
de "Hof Enekinc" (Eggink) Center for tax collection.
De hof is dan bezit van
het apostelenstift te Keulen die het aan het klooster Betlehem
in Gaanderen verkoopt. 1188 aartsbisschop Philips
van
Heinsberg van het bisdom Keulen
de
'curtis ende castrum Selvelden' (hof en kasteel Selvelden)
krijgt geschonken.
1220
Honorius III procured
an edict of Frederick II a cruel decree denouncing all Puritans.
Paterines, Arnoldists, &c., &c ., expressed in these terms, "We
shall not suffer these wretches to live."
In lokale media is tussen de dominee
en de gemeente-archivaris hevig getwist over de precieze
ligging van kasteel Silvolde. Mogelijke
plekken zijn Schuylenburg, de Lichtenberg, huis Ulft of
boerderij Have (Egginkstraat
10). Deze laatste boerderij wordt met name genoemd in de oorkonde van
1229.
Dus waar de hof staat lijkt duidelijk. Men vermoedt dat de "Hof Enekinc"
(Eggink) hiervan is afgesplitst, zoals dat
in de Achterhoek wel meer gebeurt met boerderijen. Boerderijen met
de voorvoegsels "Groot" of "Klein"
komen veelvuldig voor. Deze hof Enekinc, gelegen in de parochie Silvolde,
wordt in 1246 door Sweder van Ringelberg aan het klooster
Gaanderen verkocht. In een lijst van goederen van dit klooster uit
1421 vinden we dit goed terug met de spelling "Egkynck". Het
zou hierbij gaan om hoeve Eggink (Egginkstraat 1).
Daar het om defensieve redenen logisch
is dat kasteel en hof vlak bij elkaar liggen is er wat voor te zeggen om
het kasteel in de buurt van de Egginkstraat te zoeken. Het is waarschijnlijk
dat het "kasteel" al heel vroeg is verworden tot een boerderij, zoals in
later tijden ook Dedingsweerde bij Lochem
of kasteel Sinderen is overkomen. Zo lang er geen nieuwe vernoemingen
in oorkonden of bodemsporen worden gevonden kan men nog eeuwen twisten.
Schepenakte van Groenlo, houdend een verklaring
vanEngelbertus Echikinc,
dat het in bedrijf houden van zijn molen afhankelijk is van de toestemming
van de heer van Borculo, 1310. 1 charter. (Zie reg. no. 10).
http://home.wxs.nl/~vaarwerk/AHB.htm
National reform movement founded by Jan Milic of Kromeriz
(d. 1374).
1384
het
goed Egginck, gelegen in het kerspel Warnsveld, afkomstig van Deric
van Heykelim, 1384 - 1622 7 charters (reg.no. 65, 79, 80, 108, 215 en 220) 1410
The Bethlehem Chapel This period is marked by the Hussite religious
reformation carried out by the Bohemian
preacher John
Huss (Jan Hus)
and his followers. Huss, an ardent nationalist who
wrote
popular theological works in Czech, demonstrated
his concern for the language by
writing such studies as his 'De Orthographia
Bohemica' (Czech Orthography, circa
1412
Jan Blahoslav, bishop of the Brethren,
a poet and writer on musical and poetic theory,
was the author of a scholarly Czech Grammar.
Along with others, he took part in the
compilation of the Czech Protestant Kralice
Bible, which served as a literary model of
classical Czech.
1468
Printing was introduced into Bohemia in, and during
the next 150 years humanism
and Renaissance culture spread throughout
the Czech lands.
1506 William I the rich (1489-1555), count ofNassau,Viandenand
Dietz, married 1st 1506 Walburgis of Egmond (1489-1529),Children:
A.Elisabeth (1515-1523) B.Magdalena (1522-1567) married 1538
Herman of Nieuwenaar and Meurs (1514-1578)
1536 Menno Simons' conversion and baptism took place in January,
1536, near
Leeuwarden, Holland.
1567 Council
Of Blood 1583-88 "War of Cologne"
The archbishop of Cologne declared
himself a Protestant but refused to resign: in the end a coalition of Catholic
princes, led by the duke of Bavaria, forced him out .After the successful
struggle to retain Cologne, however,Catholic princes began to enforce
the cuius regio principle with rigour. In Bavaria, as well as in
Würzburg, Bamberg, and other ecclesiastical states, Protestants
were given the choice of either conversion or exile. Most of those
affected were adherents of the Lutheran church, already weakened
by defections to Calvinism, a new creed that had scarcely
a German adherent at the time of the 1555 Religious Peace of Augsburg.
The
rulers of the Palatinate (1560), Nassau (1578), Hesse-Kassel (1603),
and Brandenburg (1613) all abandoned Lutheranism for the new confession,
as did many lesser rulers and several towns. The Lutherans came
to detest the Calvinists even more than they loathed the Catholics.
ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA
Symbol of theGeuzen,
engraving, 1566
By courtesy of the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam
The largely Calvinist Dutch guerrilla
and privateering forces
whose military actions initiated the Netherlands'
revolt against Spanish rule (1568-1609). The term was first applied
derisively to the lesser nobility
who, together with some of the
great Netherlands magnates, in 1566 petitioned Margaret of Austria, duchess
of Parma, governor-general of the Netherlands, to relax the religious persecution
against Protestants. Receiving partial satisfaction of their grievances,
the nobles, led by Hendrik, count of Brederode,
gladly accepted the title ofGeuzen
("Beggars").
Hendrik, count of
Brederode held
the lordship of Vianen
south of Utrecht,
Brederode became known as a spirited soldier and succeeded to the family
titles in 1556.
Jan op
Kleijnderkamp/Eggink, otr./tr. Gorssel 6.10/9.11.1695
Fenneken
Janss op Egginck, ged. Gorssel 5.3.1665, otr. (2) Warnsveld 17.4.1703
Harmen Derksen. Hij trouwde in op het Eggink in de Rijssenhoek
(Eefde onder Warnsveld). Gerrit Eggink,
ged. Warnsveld 15.11.1695, overl. Colmschate 21.9.1746,
otr./tr. Colmschate 12.8/10.9.1730
So here is where the plot
thickens. Het
Slot Zeist gezien door de ogen van Hernhutter tekenaar Johannes
de Bosch (1713-1785).
Some time in the late
1700s Jan Welmers Eggink
of Zeist in the
Netherland Provance of Utrecht marries Elligje Nans
and has a son Gerrit Eggink Geboortedatum:
01-01-1793
There was a Jan Eggink son
of Lammert Eggink who was married in Laren, Gelderland in 1790
The Dutch archives indicate
that "Welmers" is the patronymic or name of the father
of Jan Welmers Eggink. This would indicate that his mother was the
heir of
Eggink farm Land and
Jan as blood heir of that land acquired his mothers Eggink name. But then
again it might be that his wife Elligje Nans was an Eggink heir.
That gets me thinking about grandmothers.
In the southern Netherlands
is also the Town of Zevenbergen founded in 1300s
King Geysa I in 1075 endowed
the Benedictine cloister in Gran which he founded with the reference
to "ultra silvam" the salina(salt mine) near Thorenburg and
with half of the royal income "in loco, qui dicitur hungarice Aranas,
latine autem Aureus" King Geysa II (1141-1162)
was successful in attracting German and Flemish farmers, trades
people and lower nobility. They settled in Zips, today’s
Slovakia, and in Transylvania. .http://www.sibiweb.de/orte/trappold/index.html
The "ecclesia Theutonicorum Ultrasilvanorum"
was spoken of in
1191, and the "priores Flandrenses" during 1192-1196.
The name "Saxones" surfaced in 1206. After this time it was commonly
used in the documents of the chancellery and defines the Germanic Transylvanians
(Siebenbürger)
to this day. Netherlands " Zevenburgen"
"During
the 12th century the Kings of Hungary Géza II, Béla III,
Andreas II (father of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia) called on the "Saxons"
to colonize Transylvania. Their role was the military defense of that
border area and exploitation of the mining resources in the area of
the Bihar mountains. The colonists' gold,
silver and copper mining made 14th and 15th century Hungary one of the
richest European countries. The mediaeval fortress-churches of this
area bear witness to the military vocation of this colonization, their
purpose was to offer shelter to the colonists in case of war. Although
the settlers were known as Saxons, they were in fact Frankish populations
from the Moselle and Rhine area, from Aachen and,
in a lesser measure, Saxons, but the latter gave the name to this population.
The great majority of these settlers comes from the Luxembourg area."
all individuals possessing
privileges
that were negotiated by Saxon miners were called Saxons during Medieval
Hungary, regardless in which region they lived: Bosnia, Zips (Slovakia)
or Transylvania. These tradesmen were in short supply and were desperately
needed to mine the natural resources. The
Miners Rights, guaranteed to attract these workers and as an enticement
to remain, contain an entire catalog of privileges which all colonists
of Medieval Hungary could demand:
personal
freedom, entitlement to inherit land, self administration and judiciary,
religious autonomy with free selection of priests, controlled
and, therefore, predictable taxes, and other obligations. "Saxon"
was, therefore, a synonym for a
legal status, a statuswith
privileges, and not, if at all, a name of origin.
Johannes Latinus of Oplid (Apold) Den Wallon
was the most importent Knight and merchant.
Walloons are chiefly descended
from the Romanized Celts of a French dialect of the Walloons. (Letzelburger
Platt" a Mosel-Franconian dialect):
Within the group the belief of a society developed "where nobody
is master and nobody is servant", of a centuries old democracy
based on the election of political and clerical representatives. Their
historians had an influential part in this development. This component
of the Transylvanian Saxon selfhood ignored not only the social structures
but also the fact that only landlords, people owning property, could be
elected. http://www.sibiweb.de/geschi/7b-history.htm
We might consider a certain
Jan
(Johannes) Welmer married, took the name of his wifes farm "EGGINK"
and had a son Jan Welmers Eggink.
There is a village in
Rumania north of Fagaras, southwest of Rupea called in
German:Felmern
and in Hungarian: Felmir. Postal-Code: 2328
Spelling and/or dialect
variants: Falmern,Welmer Documented: 6 Sept 1206
as villa Welmerafter its founder
Johannes Latinus von
Oplid (Apold) (Den Wallon)
Kirchenburg/church fortress;
HOG Ortsgeschichte Name changes: Welmer
(1206) (1488) Population:
34 heads of households, a teacher, a mill, 2 indigents
1841
Gerrit Jan Eggink of Zeist
= Hendrika Johanna De Blaauw of
Vianen
1870
Mina Arends was a flower
seller with a stand in the Utrecht
Central Railway Station, when she met Garrit Jan Eggink the young
arborist (tree specialist) from Laren
in Gelderland. They were a strict
Dutch Reformed Church couple whose flower stall in the
Utrecht Central Railroad station lasted over 80 years with the help
of their children. 1870-1950.
Mina Arens
Garrit Jan Eggink
They had 3 sons Benardus, Garrit
Jan, and Johannus , plus daughters
1898
Utrecht
Bernardus (Ben) Eggink
Silence and Secrecy He was strong willed and rejected the
Dutch Reformed Church
and military education his brothers were
receiving,
prefering the company of his Masonic Lodge
Brothers.
Johannes Eggink
Garrit Jan Eggink
1902
Alaska
Bernardus (Ben) Eggink
1930
Bernardus (Ben) Eggink
1938
Bernard Francis Eggink (son
of Ben Eggink), holding Daniel Francis Eggink,
Augusta ( Sperber) Eggink
(wife of Ben Eggink), holding Michael Carraher
son of Loree Eggink, (Ben
Eggink's daughter)
1953
Bernardus (Ben) Eggink
on way to Family reunion
in Utrecht in the Netherlands
Bernardus (Ben) Eggink
Eggink Family of Utrecht
1953
after 100 years of operating
a flower stand in the Utrecht Train Station
Great uncle Garrit Jan Eggink
