The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Milde, Dirck de		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	198
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	1755 fol 620 and foll.
Date	1654/09/29
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Purpose	sale to settle debt for 2000 gulden
Family Name	Milde
Owner Name	Milde, Dirck de
Owner Notes	Goods sold to Reyer Molensteen to settle a debt.
Occupation	Merchant (largescale) |a Wine
Residence	Amsterdam
Introduction	Compareerde voor mij Jan Quirynsz. Spitzhoof notaris ... d'erb. Dirck de Milde wijncoper binnen deser stede de welcke verclarde also hy comparant aen Reyer Molensteen alhier ... deuchdelick schuldigh is de somme van twee duysent Car. guldens spruijtende van hem op verscheijde tyden ... heeft ontfangen welcke voors. somme van pen. hem comparant ongelegen comt omme de selve penn. op te brengen ofte te voldoen soo heeft hy comparant aen de voors. Molensteen in mindering van syn achterwesen vercoopt ende opgedragen gecedeert ende getransporteert als hy doet by desen alle de nedergespecificeert goederen. Postscript: Den 29 September 1654 in presentie van Sr. Jasper van Luijck ende Cornelis van Poelenburg ende Jacobus van Nieulandt ....
Commentary	Dirck de Milde was a wine dealer. He was married to Maria Cornelis Kan, who was apparently the sister of Trijntje Cornelis Kan, the mother of Reyer Claesz. Molensteen. Thus Dirck de Milde was the uncle by marriage of Reyer Molensteen. Cornelis van Poelenburg, the witness to this transaction, may be the famous painter of that name. Dirck de Milde was betrothed to Maria Cornelis Kan, widow of Otto Phoormont (Schoormont ?), on 14 December 1644. He was said to be from The Hague, widower of Neltie Adriaens, and Warandemeester of His Highness the Prince of Orange, living in Honselreedijck. She was living in the Pylsteech and was assisted by her mother Cornelia Pieters Clapmus (DTB 678/22). On 8 May 1641, Reyer Claesz. Meulensteen, living on the Rockin, hoedecramer (retail hat merchant), from Amsterdam, assisted by Trijntje Cornelis Kan, his mother, was betrothed to Cornelia Pieters Clapmuts, from Amsterdam, living on the Groenmarckt, assisted by Rycklant Jacobs, her mother (DTB 676/51). The father of Reyer Claesz. was almost certainly Claes Reyersz. Molesteen I who, on 4 September 1631, acted as the guardian of his aunt the honorable Elbrich Jans, living in the Bagijnhof, when she declared having been repaid in full of a loan she had made to Jan Gerritsz, mason (NA 991, fol. 36, Not. Jan Bosch). His mother Trijntje Cornelis Kan was presumably the sister of Maria Cornelis Kan, the wife of Dirck de Milde. Cornelia Pieters Clapmuts was the sister of Catharina Pieters Clapmuts who was betrothed to Notary Cornelis Touw of INVNO 394 on 2 April 1642. On 27 December 1646, Reyer Molesteen and Cornelia Clapmuts had their son baptized in a R.C. church in the presence of Petrus Molesteen (DTB 316/33). Petrus Molesteen may have been a R.C. priest or a student in theology. On 10 July 1659, Reijer Molesteen and Cornelia Pieters Clapmuts had their daughter Petronile baptized in the Roman Catholic church Boom in the presence of Jan van der Mij (of R 32487 ?) and of Gertruij Molesteen (DTB 316/66). It is curious that the Molensteen family reverted to Roman Catholicism even though their ancestor Claes Reyersz. (living in the house in den Molensteen), was a prominent member of the Reformed community (Elias, Vroedschap, p. 47). The son of Reyer Claesz. Meulensteen, named Claes Reyersz. Molensteen (II), became city surgeon in 1683 (ibid.) On the Clapmuts family, see the TEXT of R 1050 and of R 23 of Montias1.
Notary	J. Spitzhoff
Total Value	1876 |d
Art Value	360 |d 10 stuyvers
# of Items	40
Montias1 #	116