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notes to pages 83–84 199
cation d’Hoboque” is listed in the estate inventory of Filips Willem van
Oranje (Brussels, 1618), William of Orange’s eldest son, who had been
taken hostage by Philip II of Spain; see Monballieu 1974, pp. 140–141.
38. Van Haecht 1929–33, 1:11.
39. This is the only property mentioned by Guicciardini 1567, p. 151: “Balthasar,
Seigneur de Hoboke[n].” For Sauvius’s portrait, see Gibson 2000,
p. 19, fig. 30.
40. See Dierickx 1954, p. 34, for an account of Balthazar’s acquisitions of land,
as well as his purchase of the rights to collect for himself the various taxes
in Hoboken formerly collected by various individuals and religious institutions.
41. For the administrative organization of Hoboken, see Dierickx 1954,
pp. 119–132.
42. Monballieu 1974, p. 142.
43. For these activities of the Schetz brothers in Hoboken, see ibid.
44. Katharine Fedden, Manor Life in Old France from the Journal of the Sire de Gouberville
for the Years 1549–1562 (New York: AMS Press, 1967), pp. 122–125;
and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Territory of the Historian, trans. Ben
Reynolds and Siân Reynolds (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1979), pp. 156–160. On the close and often friendly relations that could
exist between a landholder and his tenants, see also Pierre de Vaissière,
Gentilshommes campagnards de l’ancienne France: Étude sur la condition, l’état social et
les moeurs de la noblesse de province du XVIe et XVIIe siècle (Paris, 1903; Geneva:
Slatkine Reprints, 1975), pp. 104–118.
45. H. A. Enno van Gelder, Nederlandse dorpen in de 16e eeuw, Verhandelingen
der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, afd. Letterkunde,
N.S. 59, no. 2 (Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij,
1953), pp. 39–67, esp. 39–40.
46. Wilfrid Brulez, De firma della Faille en de internationale handel van Vlaamse firma’s
in de 16de eeuw, Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Vlaamse Akademie van
Wetenschappen, Letteren, en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren,
Verhandelingen, No. 35 (Brussels: Paleis der Academiën, 1959),
p. 227. For other manors owned by the brothers Jacques and Jean della
Faille, see Biog. Nat. 1866–1932, 32: cols. 192–196.
47. For Gillis Mostaert’s collaboration with other painters, see Vermeylen
2003, p. 126, with further references.