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drik’s purchase of Berchem, it apparently contained other summerhouses;
see Prims 1949, pp. 293–315. For Cornelis van Dalem, see Kavaler
1999, p. 49.
22. Kavaler 1999, p. 165. In addition to his country residences noted above,
Granvelle also owned the seigneuries of Bosbeeck, Bouchout, and Sint-
Laurent-ten-Hove, in the vicinity of Antwerp, all three named in a warrent
issued by Granvelle on 15 July 1563 to one Odet Viron to govern these
properties. For the original document, see Antiquariaat Forum (Utrecht),
Short Title List with Recent Acquisitions and a Selection from Our Stock, 22nd European
Antiquarian Book and Print Fair at Amsterdam, n.d.
23. In “A Dialogue between a Noble, a Franciscan Monk, and a Lutheran”;
see Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, Weet of rust: Proza van Coornhert, ed. Henk
Bonger and Arie-Jan Gelderblom (Amsterdam: Em. Querido’s Uitgeverij,
1993), pp. 45–46. As it happens, Baetens 1985, pp. 172–173, does
not include these titles among the reasons why the wealthy classes so eagerly
acquired feudal manors.
24. Guicciardini 1567, p. 151, describes Caspar as “Baron de Wesemale, Seigneur
de Grobbendonck, de Heist, & autres Seigneuries d’importance.”
25. Ibid., p. 150; see also Biog. Nat. 1866–1944, 8: cols. 314–324, s.v., “Grobbendonck,”
esp. cols. 315–317, 320. Few, if any, of the manor houses and other
country residences discussed in these pages have survived war and expanding
urbanization; the Jonghelinckshof, for example, was destroyed
in 1584 on the eve of the siege of Antwerp by Spanish troops under
Alexander Farnese (Smolderen 1996, p. 11). In his two series of the Small
Landscapes of 1559 and 1561, Hieronymus Cock includes only three substantial
structures, two moated castles and a large residence, that might
qualify as country estates (Van Bastelaer-Gilchrist 1992, cat. nos. 26, 38,
39). However, some idea of the various forms they took can perhaps be
gained from Antonius Sanderus’s Flandria illustrata. Published some eighty
years later, it contains many views of castles and country houses that could
be seen in the county of Flanders in his time. See Antonius Sanderus,
Flandria illustrata sive Descriptio comitatus per totum terraru[m] orbem celeberrium
III tomis absoluta, 2 vols. (Cologne: Sumptibus Cornelii ab Egmondt et
Sociorum, 1641), a copy in the Chapin Rare Book Library, Williams
College.
26. The complete inscription is “Die boeren verblyen hun in sulken feesten, /
Te dansen springhen en dronkendrincknen als beesten / Sye moeten die