Isabeau van Culemborg, vrouwe van Culemborg, Hoogstraten, Borsselen en Zuylen

Notes
Dame de Culembourg et Hoochstraten. Elle fonda le chapitre de Hooghstraeten en 1531. Morte sans hoirs. Après sa mort en 1555, Culembourg passa à Florent de Pallant, son petit neveu (petit fils de sa soeur Anne)..
Available Sources : L de Herckenrode, 1868, F Brassart, 1879, FV Goethals, 1862, C Butkens, 1724, de Bar, 1780, EJ Sellers, 1915, M Redig, 1848, C Butkens, 1626, GDJ Schotel, 1846, B de Ryckman et F de Jonghe, 1956.
Birth
Selon Devigne (1928), elle est morte à 89 ans et 10 mois, ce qui donne comme date de naissance: février 1566.
Selon Schotel, 1846, elle est née le 30 mars 1475.
Death
Source : monument funéraire de Antoine de Lalaing et Elisabeth de Culembourg. Eglise Sainte-Catherine à Hoogstraten.
Autre date de décès: 9 octobre 1555. Selon FV Goethals, 1862 et B de Ryckman et F de Jonghe, 1956.
Birth:
- Devigne, 1928.
- Goethals, 1862.
Spouse 2: EJ Sellers, 1915.
Death:
- IRPA
- FV Goethals, 1862.
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ép. 2) ~1511 Isabeau (Elisabeth, Isabelle)de Culembourg (Culemburg, Culenborch),
dame de Hoogstraeten (ou Hoochstrate) et Borsellen (Borselle) (fille de Gaspard et de Jeanne de Bourgogne ; veuve de Jean de Luxembourg, seigneur de Ville + 1508)

Pattou, Etienne. “Famille & Seigneurs De Lalaing.” Racines et Histoire

Jean de Luxembourg - Elisabeth van Culemborg - Antoine de Lalaing

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he had married, about 1511, Isabeau, lady of CULEMBOURG and Hoochstrate, (daughter of Jaspard, lord of Culembourg, etc., and of Jeanne de Bourgogne), older than him by fifteen years, and widow, since 1508, of Jean de Luxembourg, lord of Ville, knight of the Golden Fleece. He was created Count of Hoochstrate, by letters patent dated of Saragossa, in June 1518. He died in Ghent on April 2, 1540 and lies in a magnificent tomb in Hoogstraeten (province of Antwerp).

Brassart, Felix, Société Académique, editor. Souvenirs De La Flandre Wallonne, Catalogue des Nobels de Nom, de Lalaing, Dix-Septieme, L. Crépin, 1882. un Comite Historique et Archeologique: Memories of Walloon Flanders: pp. 61.

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Elisabeth of Culemborg (Gelmelslot, Hoogstraten, March 30, 1475 - Culemborg, December 9, 1555), nicknamed "Lady Elisabeth," was the last lady of the seigniory of Culemborg.

Elisabeth van Culemborg - Gravin van Hoogstraten. Muurschildering door Karel Boom op het Stadhuis te Hoogstraten. (Erfgoedbank Hoogstraten)

She was the wealthy heiress daughter of Jasper of Culemborg and Johanna of Burgundy (1457-1511). Elisabeth married Jan van Luxemburg-Ville, lord of Ville, who died in 1508, in 1491. Then, in 1509, this first lady-in-waiting and niece of Archduchess Margaret of Austria married Anthony I of Lalaing. Anthony became acting governor of the Netherlands in 1530. She had also been court lady to Johanna of Castile, from 1496 until Johanna married.

Portretten van Johannes van Luxemburg en Antonius de Lalaing en van Vrouwe Elisabeth - Culemborg

She gave her husband first usufruct and later full ownership of the seigneuries of Hoogstraten, Minderhout and Rijkevorsel and her properties in Meer, Meerle and Meersel, in addition to the so-called courts of Hoogstraten in Brussels and Mechelen.

Elizabeth loved art and architecture, as well as supported the building of homes for the elderly and mentally ill. She was partly known as a devout Catholic and fiercely opposed to Protestants and the Reformation. She interfered with the banning of "heretical" books, such as the books of Erasmus, and allowed the Order of Jesuits to settle in Culemborg.[1]

The Land of Hoogstraten was again unified and elevated to the county of Hoogstraten by Emperor Charles on November 25, 1518. From then on, the count allowed himself to be called Hoogstraten for short.

After the death of her husband Antoon in 1540, Elisabeth herself was already about 65 years old and decided to make her own will. She bequeathed the goods in Hoogstraten to her cousin Philip of Lalaing and the goods in and around Culemborg to her cousin Floris van Pallandt. She decided in 1542 to raise the then 3-year-old Floris herself in her castle at Culemborg,[2] though she herself kept the usufruct over Culemborg until her death. From the last Count of Virneburg-Neuenahr, Elisabeth bought the seigniory of Sombreffe in 1543, just before his death,[3] as a result of which she was listed in 1550 as: "Elisabeth of Culemborch, Countess of Hoochstraten, lady of Culemborch, Borssele and Sombreffe, douairière of Montigny, Lense and Estrees."[4]

Fondation des garcons orphelines ordonné par le testament de Dame Elisabeth van Culemborg, comtesse de Hoogstraeten, … du 25 mai 1555 - Executé par Antoine La Laing, Comte de Hoogstraeten…
(Foundation for orphan boys ordered by the will of Lady Elisabeth van Culemborg, Countess of Hoogstraeten, ... of May 25, 1555 - Executed by Antoine La Laing, Count of Hoogstraeten...)

Zegel van Elisabeth van Culemborg in 1545

Shortly before her death, Emperor Charles V elevated the seigniory of Culemborg to a county. In her will, she stipulated that her estate should be spent on the "regte poor. The executors of the will decided to build an orphanage. This house remained in existence until 1952.

[1] Peter G. Bietenholz & Thomas Brian Deutcher: Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volumes 1-3

[2] A.W.K. Voet van Oudheusden, Historische beschryvinge van Culemborg, volume I, 1753, p. 179
[3] (de) Schannat, Johann Friedrich, Eiflia illustrata oder geographische und historische Beschreibung der Eifel. Johann Peter Bachem, Aachen & Leipzig (1829), "202 Sombreffe", p. 289 "Sombreffe war schon früher , im Jahre 1543 , von dem leßten Grafen von Virneburg , Cuno , an Isabelle ( oder Elisabeth ) von Cuylenburg verkauft worden."
[4] Our Lady's Abbey at Middelburg, 1189-1578. Zeeuws Archives (January 5, 1550). Accessed June 19, 2021 "Elisabeth of Culemborch, countess of Hoochstraten, lady of Culemborch, Borssele and Sombreffe, douairière of Montigny, Lense and Estrees

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_van_Culemborg''
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Further sourcing
1) Antoine de Lalaing and Isabeau de Culembourg, his legitimate wife, had no children. They left a conjunctive will in 1540 which can be consulted on: https://www.geldersarchief.nl/bronnen/archieven?mivast=37&mizig=210...