| Commentary | Pieter Barentsz. was the son of Barent Adriaensz. van Hartoghvelt of R 30608 of Montias2, bookseller in the Warmoesstraat (died on 15 October 1652) who is known to have been Roman Catholic (Elias, Vroedschap van Amsterdam, vol. 1, p.511). The crucifix in the inventory tends to confirm that he, too, was R.C. On 24 December 1646, Pieter Barentsz. Hartochvelt had his son Anthony, through the intercession of Jacob Temminck, merchant in Amsterdam, apprenticed to Jean van Peulen, merchant in Bordeaux, for two years. Jacob Temminck, born in Kleef, in December 1614, lived for some time in Amsterdam (in 1641 and at the date of the present inventory), but finally settled in his native city (Elias, Vroedschap van Amsterdam, p. 785-7). Pieter Barentsz. undertook to pay Van Peulen 600 f. in French money for his son's room and board in three installments (Van Dillen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van het bedrijfsleven R.G.P. 144(1974), p. 478). The brothers of Barent Adriaensz., named Egbert and Christoffel, were respectively bookseller and mapmaker. Egbert. unlike Barent, was probably Reformed (Jaarboek Amstelodamum 10(1912), pp.146-7). Pieter Barentsz. was married to Antoinette, alias Tuentie, Lamberts, who was buried on 27 June 1662 (DTB 1047/96). He was buried in the O.K. on 22 August 1662 (DTB 1047/97). His brother Hendrick van Hartoghvelt, who was also bookseller, cited in the NOTES to R 30608 of Montias2, married the great grand daughter of Joost Buyck, bourgomaster before the Reformation (Jaarboek Amstelodamum 10(1912), p. 146.) Another brother, Anthony Hartoghsvelt (I) (1626-1662), soapboiler, married Elisabeth Corver, daughter of Pieter Pietersen Corver, the brother of Hendrick Pietersz. Corver (of R 21960 of Montias2). On 22 September 1645, Maria Loen, widow of Nicolaes Fontein (INVNO 523), had an inventory made of the goods she had left in the house and care of Pieter Barent Hartochvelt (R 429 of Montias1). Bernardus or Barnart van Hartochvelt, the son of Pieter Barentsz. Hartogvelt, was co-heir of the estate of his father (see the INTRO). He was said to be advocate in the Rockinstraet on 7 May 1667 (NA 2262, Not. Steeman). He was buried on 27 October 1689 (DTB 1048/6). It is not certain whether this was the same Bernardus van Hartochvelt, a militant Roman Catholic, who was forced to leave Amsterdam in 1663 for The Hague. This Bernardus van Hartochvelt was the brother of Ignatius van Hartochvelt, a Jesuit priest who died in the East Indies in 1652, and of the klopjes (lay sisters) Alida and Maria van Hartochvelt, who, on 4 March 1669, drew up a procuration to give Sr. Johannes Vermeer, living in Delft, power of attorney to help settle an outstanding dispute in Delft on their behalf (NA 3584, fols. 302-3, kindly communicated by Jaap van der Veen). On 1 September 1674, the honorable Theodorus de Jager, bachelor of major age, acknowledged having received from Bernardus Hartochvelt, pursuant to the testament of the late Hendrick de Jager and of Fina(?) de Jager, his late parents, also from Pieter Barents van Hartochvelt and Anthonetta Lamberts, his grandfather and grandmother, as well as from Sara Caspers, his allotted portion. Bernardus de Jager was said to be his brother (NA 2472, fol. 166, Notary R. Duee) |
