| Commentary | On 23 August 1597, Jan Reyers Loots, 22, living on the O.Z. Kolck, assisted by Claes Martsz., was betrothed to Aef Jacobs van Campen, 26, living on the N.D., assisted by Geerte Pieters, her mother (Oud Holland 3(1885), pp. 169-170). Aef Jacobs van Campen was the sister of Cornelis Jacobsz. van Campen (1564-1636) (of R 31987) and of Pieter van Campem (1568-1635), the father of the painter/architect Jacob Pietersz. van Campen (1596-1657). Aef Jacobs died in 1619. Jan Reyers then remarried with Jannetge Baltens (see the act of the Orphan Chamber, dated 24 October 1636 (5073/789). Out of the first marriage sprang Mr. Reyer Loots, advocate in Utrecht. Reyer Loots (1595/9-1649) was said to be 21 years old on 4 May 1620 when he made a deposition about the poet Jan Jansz. Starter (Oud Holland 22(1904), p.42). He was an art lover who may have given Jacob van Campen entree into the artistic milieu of Utrecht. He married Maria van Ruempst. Maria Loots, born about 1605, was a daughter of Jan Reyers's second marriage with Jannetge Baltens. She married Dirck Dircksz. Boortens II, advocate in The Hague. She died before 16 Juy 1634 when her estate, as reported to the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam, was said to amount to 12,800 f. (WK 5073/791, fol.171-171vo,) Dirck Boortens II, the son of the bleacher and cloth merchant Dirck Boortens I, was widower of Maria Loots when he was betrothed to Josina Bols on 11 February 1635. She was the daughter of Cornelis Bol, who was very active in the tulip trade in Haarlem. Dirck Boortens II was also active in the trade as Anne Goldgar has documented (Tulipmania, typescript, pp.180-4. Anne Goldgar kindly allowed me to read this draft of her forthcoming book). Margrieta Loots, also from the second marriage of Jan Reyersz., born about 1610, married Hugo du Bois (M.J. Bok in Jacob van Campen, Exh. Cat., 1995, p.25 and p.36). Geerte Pieters Visscher, the wife of Jacob van Campen I and the grandmother of the painter and architect Jacob van Campen II, was the sister of Roemer Visscher, poet and author of Sinne-poppen. Jan Reyersz. Loots bought lots for 7 f. 4 st. in the Haarlem lottery of 1606 (GAA 56/28 F 44). On 17 March 1619, he was a witness to the baptism of Gerrit, son of Nicolaes van Campen (1586-1638), member of the Raad of Amsterdam and Regent of the Burgerweeshuis, and of Annetje Cornelis (Ruyl), Nicolaes van Willemsz. van Campen was the son of Willem van Campen, the brother of Jacob van Campen I. The other witness was Catharina Quekels, the wife of Cornelis Jacobsz. van Campen. Another son of Nicolaes van Campen was Willem van Campen (of INVNO 1153), born in 1611. Jan Reyer Loots was a herring merchant and warehouse man. According to a document cited by Marten Jan Bok (op.cit.), he was still alive in 1638. On or about 1 October 1624, Dirck Boortens, attorney, married to Maria Loots, the daughter of Jan Reyersz. Loots and Jannetge Baltens (his second wife) made a declaration concerning the inheritance from Aefgen van Campen (his wife's stepmother) (NA 21S, fol.12, Notary Salomon Henricx). The children of Jan Reyersz. Loots and Aefgen van Campen were cited in the testament of Cornelis van Campen on 5 February 1636. On 31 January 1634, the honorable Nicolaes van Campen, counsellor of this city, and Mr. Reynier Loots, attorney before the Court of Utrecht, declared that they knew well that Aefgen Boortens, Maria Boortens, Margriete Boortens, Catrina Kievits, and Jannetge Looten were still alive. This was perhaps for a Tontine (NA 771, Not. Verhey). Catrina Kievits was the daughter of Diewertgen Pauw (ibid., 20 October 1634, declaration of Jacob Pauw (of R 35405?)). On 9 May 1634, Nicolaes van Campen asserted that Eva Boortens (born about 1626), Margarita Boortens (born about 1630), and Geertruyd Boortens (born about 1625) were still alive (ibid.) On 24 October 1634, Van Campen asserted that, in addition to the Boortens daughters, Maria Loots, Immmetgen Loots, Femmetgen Loots, Geertruy Loots, and Trijntgen Loots, whose mother was Jannetgen Baltens, were still alive (ibid.) |
