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notes to pages 79–80 195
Schoonbeke, Historische Uitgeven Pro Civitate, Reeks in 8 o , 47 (Brussels:
Gemeentekrediet van België, 1977), pp. 186–191.
12. For Jonghelinck’s villa, see Van de Velde 1965, p. 117, and doc. I, pp. 122–
123; and Smolderen 1996, p. 9.
13. Granvelle’s La Fontaine, also known as De Borre (borre or bron, i.e., “well”
or “spring”), is discussed in Van Durme 1953, p. 216 and n. 36, pp. 340–341.
For his residence at Cantecroix, see Piquard 1947–48, p. 137.
14. Baetens 1985, p. 180; the number of villas near Antwerp is increased to
370 by Roland Baetens and Bruno Blondé, “Habiter la ville: la culture
de l’habitat urbain,” in La ville en Flandre: culture et société, 1477–1787, ed. Jan
Van der Stock (Brussels: Crédit Communal, 1991), pp. 59–70, esp. 69.
15. For Niclaes Jonghelinck’s connections with the mint, see Smolderen 1996,
p. 9; and Goldstein 2003, pp. 236–237. Noirot apparently owned no property
other than a small house near Bruges, where his brother lived; even
his city house was owned by the Antwerp mint (Goldstein 2003, p. 228).
For Veselaer’s country place, Het Lanteernhof, in Deurne just outside
Antwerp, see ibid., pp. 254–256.
16. See Lambrecht 1945, p. 109, s.v.,”Hof oft lochtingh: Iardin [ jardin].” Speelhuys
and hof (and the latter’s variants) recur in the inventories listed in
Stappaerts 1987–88; see, for example, p. 68, no. 29 (speelhuys), and p. 45,
no. 106 (hoª van plaisantien). Other documents refer to speelhoven and huysen
van plaisanchien; see Dierickx 1954, p. 333.
17. For country estates as items of prestige, see Baetens 1985.
18. For some of the purchasers of these seigneuries, see ibid. A similar phenomenon
in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century is discussed
in Gibson 2000, pp. 113–114.
19. For Van Straelen’s life, see Biog. Nat. 1866–1944, 24: cols. 131–143; the villages
are mentioned in Guicciardini 1567, p. 150. Van Straelen’s connections
with the rederijkers are discussed in F. Mertens and K. L. Torfs, Geschiedenis
van Antwerpen sedert de stichting der stad tot onse tijden, vol. 4 (Antwerp, 1848),
pp. 275–277. For the medal, see Kavaler 1999, pp. 34–35 and fig. 13.
20. De Landwinninge ende Hoeve van M. Kaerle Stevens [Charles Estienne], Doctoor
in de Medecijne (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1556 ), pp. 3–4. For this
manual, see Gibson 1991, p. 21, with further references.
21. For Hendrik’s acquisition and development of Berchem, see Prims 1949,
pp. 124–129, 141–144; and Baetens 1985, p. 179. But even before Hen