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Generation: 1
1. | Baudouin de Gruutere Notes:
Biography:
From Henry de Peyster Baudouin:
"belonging to the family of the lords of Exaerde, Loovelde, Mariakerke, Vaernewyck and of the Gruut of Ghent. The family derived its name from de Gruut, the special privilege of making and selling malt. It also entitled the family to the hereditary position of masters of the influential Brewers' Guild. L'Espinoy in his publication relative to the nobility of Flanders (1631) remarked that the de Gruutere family was one of the richest and noblest of Ghent."
Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 2
Generation: 3
5. | Oste de Peyster (2.Catherine2, 1.Baudouin1) was born in 1442 in Ghent, Belgium; died in 1520. Notes:
Biography:
From Henry de Peyster Baudouin:
"It was by no means uncommon that the same person was not only a free-master, but the Chief-Dean of two, three or more corporations or guilds, so different as goldsmiths, mercers and haberdashers, carpenters and grain-weighers.[BOLD:] [:BOLD]Oste de Peyster, ancestor of the American family, was Chief-Dean of the Carpenters' and Shipbuilders', Syndic of the Goldsmiths' Guilds, Free-Master of the Mercers' and Haberdashers' Guilds and possibly of others."
Family/Spouse: Catherine Volpot. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 4
8. | Josse de Peyster (5.Oste3, 2.Catherine2, 1.Baudouin1) was born in 1475 in Ghent, Belgium. Notes:
Biography:
From Henry de Peyster:
"This branch of the de Peyster family was closely associated with the oldest and most famous of the Archers' Guilds at Ghent, namely with that of Saint George. Other branches of the family were identified with the St. Sebastian Guild. We find as members of St. George :
Josse de Peyster, Oste's son, member since 1517.
Catherine Sanguewyn, Josse de Peyster's wife, member in 1524."
Family/Spouse: Catherine Sanguewyn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Family/Spouse: Catherine Blanckaert. Catherine died in 1509. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 14. Oste de Peyster
was born in 1506 in Ghent, Belgium; died in 1551.
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