Pedro Nunes Lopes

For the links between the Portuguese, Spanish, and Flemish, see: https://flemishamerican.blogspot.com/2009/10/flemings-around-magell...

The de Haro family was linked to Flemish enterprise and the ventures of the Flemish-born Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (b.1500), who also took the throne of Spain.

Christopher de Haro, based in Antwerp, was linked to the Fugger family, financiers to the Emperor, and major drivers of global business and exploration. At that time, Antwerp was a leading center of global commerce.

Additional information on Pedro I Lopez de Haro, pasted from Google group: <To: BERT VAN KOMEN <From: LUC GREGOIRE <Subj: Leuven, Belgium Lopez De <Hello Bert!

<Tuesday April 26 1994, Bert Van Komen writes to All: < BVK> 4. Died in Leuven, Belgium, January 20, 1554. His

<BVK> tombstone, translated into Dutch, reads "Ridder van

<BVK> het Graf des Heren in Jerazalem." <Living near Leuven (and Brussels) I'll see what I can find.  In the meantime could you tell me where Don Pedro Lopez de Haro's tombstone can be found? Is it also in Leuven?>

In Minnibroeder kerk in Leuven, Belgium. (See below)

Hi Luc.

Attached is a part of a transrcipt of a document which was translated in 1724. The Dutch (the spelling is very different than what is used today.)

<Copys uit den Latijn getranslateert in duijtsen taele.>

<Grafschrift van den Heere Peter Lopes de Haro twelks staet by the Minnibroeders tot Loven in the tweede Columme van der Kercke.>

<In deze aerde vist het lichaem van den Heere Peter Lopes de Haro, Spaenijiaert van geboorte, die weleka als hij gemaeckt is geweest Ridder van het Graft onras Heeren, ende den Gulden ordre een en deirtich jaeren, is hij gestorven dend twintichsten dach Januarii int Jaere Duijsent vijff honderdt vier ende vijfftigh wijens Siele dat rust in Vreda.> (August 31, 1724 translation by Willem Boon, Not. from Latin copies received in Rotterdam on 4 April 1717. Pursuant to current Dutch spelling, Dutch spelling in 1724 is almost like a foreign language!!!.)

I also have a translation of the marriage record of Peter Lupi (Peter Lopez De Haro's son) and Catharina van den Berghe in the Saint Jacob's church in Leuven, Belguim on January 14, 1554.

Pedro's son, the younger Pedro, was a student at the University of Leuven. <Peter Lupi> is found on a list of students at the University of Leuven for that school year. Except for the listing in the index of Peter Lupi, I have been unable to find any other documents from the University. Van den Berghe was a minor Brabant's family of nobility.

eques auratus Don Pedro Lopez de Haro.

 <Pedro> is the given name.

 <Lopez> is his surname and indicates that he is a descendent of Diego Lopez, Count (Earl) of Biscay, (about 1200 A.D.)  Diego, son of Lope Diaz, adopted the surname for this branch of the house of de Haro.

 <De Haro> indicates that he is a member of the House of Haro, the royal family of Biscay (850 to 1100 A.D.).  (The House of Haro, Urraca, daughter of Lope Diaz, married into the House of Leon, Alfonsa of Leon, about 1100 AD at which time Biscay came under the control of the King of Leon.)

 <Don> means <honorable>. It also means he is not the first born son or the son of the first born son of the Count of Biscay.

 <eques auratus> I have not been able to find the meaning this. Do you know?

Don Pedro Lopez de Haro was married to Barbara Verdun (Verdon, Verdonck, de Verdeijn.) Barbara's coat of arms according to a Dutch heraldry publication is as follows: (in Dutch).

"In blauw een gouden kruis, vorgezeld in het Ie and 4e kwartier van een leeuw van hetzelfde en in het 2e and 3e van drie zilveren lelien. (Volgens eene aanteekening is dit echter het wapen van Barbara Verdun, vrouw van den eques auraturs Don Pedro Lopez de Haro.) Gekroonde helm met goud-blauwe dekkloeden. Helmtooken: een uitkomende gouden leeuw, i the rechterpot een gouden Latijnsch kruis schulelinks houdende."

Barbara's father pursuant to her coat of arms might also have been a famous knight. The Verdon family (Ie and 4e kwartier) according to Reitstap's <Armorial General > is from Geneva, Switzerland.

Hope you can find some additional information.

Bert P. van Komen