| Introduction | Op huyden den 28e april 1650 compareerde voor my Joost van Ven notaris ende de naergenoemde getuijgen Jouffr. Aachie Bremans, weduwe van Jan Tronquoij saliger, ende verclarde hoe dat haer man by testament haer gelaten hadde boedelhouster, doch doen sy schuldich was haer konten te bewijsen ende te voldoen ende ten minste ter hinl. recht van legitime portie twelck bedragen sal ten minst vier duysent car. gulden, synde voor beyde haere ongetrouwt dochteren acht duysent gulden, en dat sy comparant geleden heeft soo voor de schade soo door borchtochte voor haer overleden soon beschadigt als onder groote oppressie schaden ende verliesen so wel door haer dochters [etc..] |
| Commentary | On 3 August 1591, Jean de Tronquoy, from Namen (Namur), 35 years old, living with Doctor Silla, was betrothed to Margaret de Bruijn, from Brussels, assisted by her father Denijs de Bruijne and her mother Maycken Etterbeeck (DTB 406/59). He remarried with Aachie Bremans on 25 November 1616. In 1631, Jan Torcquoij, living int Princehoff near the N.Z. Westerburchwal, paid a tax of 5 f. (Kohier, fol. 243vo, p. 56). In September (?) 1633 (exact date illegible), Jan Tronquoy, deurwaerder of the Admiralty, named Jasper Brant to represent him before the Commissary for Small Affairs (NA 372, fol. 139, Not. W. Cluyt). It is not clear whether Jean Tronquoi, the husband of Aachie Bremans, is identical with Jan Denijs Tronqois, the son of Maria Deymans de Jonge, who had his portrait painted by Jan Lievens, according to a deposition dated 30 April 1682.The portrait would have been painted some time between 1652 and 1666 when Lievens was in Amsterdam (Bredius, Künstler-inventare, p. 201-202). |
