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- Jan III Persijn Lord of Velsen and Waterland (<1298-1353)
He was born before 1298
He married on March 2, 1314 (when he was at least 16 years old) withJutte van Brederode (1291-1346).
He fought with the Cods against the Hooks in some battles in 1351.
Jan and Jutte lived in the Velsen estate.
In 1255 Jan's grandfather (Jan II Persijn 1230-1292) had bought the small, but very defensible estate from the Velsen family. It was surrounded by two moats and was situated on a beach wall at the North Sea.
After that, he and his children called themselves, Persijn van Velsen. Descendants lived in the mansion until 1355.
In 1391 Floris van Haemstede sold the mansion to his cousin Gijsbrecht II van Nijenrode, who gave it as a wedding present to his son Jan van Nijenrode for his marriage (on August 16, 1392) to Margaretha van Mijnden.
In c. 1450, during the Hook and Cod wars, when the estate was still in the possession of the Nijenrode family, it was nearly destroyed. Some time later it was totally rebuilt and restored.
Jan died on December 20, 1353 and was buried at the Abbey of the Leeuwenhorst castle .
Read below what the poet Vondel (the Dutch Shakespeare) said about him in the famous history play Gijsbrecht van Aemstel.
The play was written to inaugurate Amsterdam's first city theatre in1637, but the story is set in the early 1300s.
Wat riemen voert of zeil heeft d'amirael Persijn
Beslaegen in zijn' dienst by Vries en Waterlanderen.
Al 't omgelegen volck ruckt haestigh by malkanderen,
En treckt vast op den brand van kerck en toorens aen.
Helaes, wat ga ick aen? wat koomt my weder over?
Waer zendghe my? mijn lief, Persijn, den grooten roover
Uw' vyand in den mond, die op ons vlamt en loert
Uit Zwaenenburgh, daer hy des graeven vlagge voert?
't Verdriet hem zulck een slot en vasten burgh te derven,
Die ongerechte gift. Uw zaed, uw wettige erven.
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Bef 1298 - 1353 (55 years)
Maria Persijn van Velsen, b. 1320 d. Yes, date unknown