Josse de Peyster

1515 - 1587  (72 years)

• Name	Josse de Peyster  [1]
  Born	1515	Ghent, Belgium   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Biography	From Henry de Peyster: "It was during their life time that the de Peysters and their relatives joined the Protestant cause. Vaernewyck, the celebrated historian, mentions Reynier de Peyster, secretary to the schepens, as being a Protestant in 1566. Several members of the de Peyster family took refuge in England and Holland where we find their names in the registers of the Walloon or Flemish Protestant churches since the year 1570. After 1579, however, most of these refugees returned to Ghent at the time of Jean de Hembyze's dictatorship. They had to pay fines for having left the city without having been granted leave by the magistrates. On the roll of fines we meet many names, mentioned in these pages, of families related to the de Peysters. ...." "The youngest branch, from which the American family descends, had therefore all become Protestants in or about 1566. The first direct ancestor of the American family to do so was Josse de Peyster who had married Elisabeth Danckaert." Schepens are aldermen.
  Died	1587	Ghent, Belgium   [1]
  Person ID	I3751	Our Family
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2016

  
  

  Father	Josse de Peyster,   b. 1475, Ghent, Belgium
  Mother	Catherine Sanguewyn
  Married	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F1334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Danckaert,   d. 1557
  Married	Y  [1]
  Children	1. Elizabeth de Peyster,   b. 1545   2. Josyne de Peyster,   b. 1550   3. Josse de Peyster,   b. 1554, Ghent, Belgium
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2016
  Family ID	F1330	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Marguerite van Roome
  Married	Y  [1]
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2016
  Family ID	F1331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1515 - Ghent, Belgium Died - 1587 - Ghent, Belgium  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S463] De Peyster Gen: NY Gen Record.