Walter of Ghent (de Gand dit Villain) (died before 1260) was the second son of Hugues I and Odette de Champagne, daughter of Odo II of Champlitte. Hugues married Lady Avezoete, daughter of Abraham and perhaps of the house of Maelstede.[1] Although his brother inherited the lordship of Heusden and Bornhem, he received the lordship of Sint Jansteen.[2] He took the name Villain, a name synonymous with peasant or farm boy.[3]
Avezoete and Walter had a very large family. Their children included:
- Johannes (died before August 1262)
- Alexander, married Ysabeau d' Axelle
- Walter
- Sohier
- Isabelle, married Jean Robert Van Den Kerchove Van Ter-Varent
- Phillippe
- Williames
- Odine, married Henri de Westhuse
- Katerine
Notes
edit- ^ Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 9, Part 1, Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, M. Hayez, 1842
- ^ Auguste Havenith, Recherches historiques sur le château et la seigneurie de Heusden, autrement dite vicomté de Gand (De Backer, 1900), p. 148-149
- ^ Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 9, Part 1, Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, M. Hayez, 1842
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