Derike Williamson DEURCANT

                   In 1576 her (Mary) mother, Haesgen Sebastiaansdr, was a ward of her kinsman Coenraad Gielsz van Boshuizen. She was married by 1587 to Dirk Willemsz Duurcant who died shortly before 6 Jun. 1605, and from 1605 until 1624 her half-brother, Pontiaan Gerritsz, genaamd van Boshuizen, was co-guardian of her children.Haesgen was a daughter of Jannetje Pontiaansdr van Boshuizen (d. by 1576) by her second husband Sebastiaan Cornelisz (d. by 1576). Jannetje was a daughter [by his concubine Gerrtruid Dirksdr] of a priest named Pontiaan Willemsz van Boshuizen (d. 1545), who matriculated 23 Jun. 1495 at the University of Louvaine, and later was seated as a vicar in his native Leiden in Zuid-Holland. His ancestry stretches back through the centuries to include the counts of Holland and the kings of France and England.I am currently under the impression that Sebastiaan Cornelisz was Sebastiaan Cornelisz, genaamd van Meerten, whose estate inventory taken in 1576 at den Gulden Leeuw near his first cousin's residence, the ridderhofstad Essenstein te Everdingen, indicates that his house at Zalt-Bommel was in the hands of the invading Spanish. He, in turn, was a son of Cornelis van Meerten who was described in De Gelderschen in Utrecht (1528) as such- Cornelis van Meerten, rekel onvroet, U kinders mogen wel roepen: o wy, o wach, Ghy Bloodtet sant, doemen soude rechten aen bloet, Dat tot uwen huyse in de kelre lach; Ghy hebt u selven daer mede veracht, Om gerekent te wesen in de verraderije, 't Is wonder dat ghy enz. Cornelis was the youngest son of Ernst Taets van Meerten (d. 1508) of Wijk bij Duurstede by his second wife Berta van Ess(ch)enstein, and his ancestry includes many notables from the province Utrecht.