Epitaphe of Pierre and Jean Colins



Jean fut seigneur de Ter Meeren, fut recommandable par ses vertus guerrières et civiles. Il fit hommage de sa terre et mairie de Ter Meeren le 26.01.1577, servit fidèlement Philippe II pendant les troubles des Pays-Bas, et conserva la ville d'Enghien, dont il était capitaine et garde pour le roi au service de sa majesté.
Il se signala en plusieurs autres occasions, en exposant sa vie et ses biens pour le service de son prince et mourut à 75 ans.

Ledit Jean Colins fut inhumé, avec son père, dans l'église du béguinage d'Enghien.

3 comments:

Pablo Carpintero said...

There were various "Ter Meeren". I am not yet sure which was the one belonging to Colins Jean.

Pablo Carpintero said...

There are 11 generations between Jean Colins and myself - I was born 335 years after him.
Of these 11 generations 6 were in the male Colins line. The last Colins was Anna Maria de Colins, one of my paternal great-great-great-grandmothers.

From relative "riches" to relative poverty in two or three generations just before the collapse op the Ancien Régime.

Pablo Carpintero said...

Time and again it strikes me that these people (very minor gentry) probably wouldn't even have given the time of day to the large majority of my ancestors, who were simple hard working folk, often living on the brink of starvation.

The folklore in Lieferinge has not yet forgotten the almost criminal excentricities of some in the last generations of Colins. Earlier posts focus on this subject.