The Crabeth family (father and sons) makers of stained-glass windows are the most important artists active mainly in Gouda. They were world-famous glaziers
and undeniable tied to the "Glory of Gouda" [LINK: St
Johns Church at Gouda]
Between 1559-1561 Wouter Pieterszoon Crabeth the younger (1505-1589) designed
his first creation, glass nr 5, that can be admired in the St Jans Church,
Gouda.
The St Jans Church (interior) named after John the baptist,was build before 1552
On 1 January 1552 a fire destroyed forty-six of the stained-glass windows in St Jans Church in that city. Dirk was called upon to make nine new windows and Wouter made four. The latter had travelled in France and Italy as well as working in Antwerp and Brussels and his work shows extensive Renaissance influence. Some of their full-scale drawings for the windows are still extant in Gouda. This is the longest Church of Europe (about 123 meters). Seventy stained glasses can be admired in this church. At the right, behind the candles, glass nr. 5 is located in the Noorderbeuk of the Church.
LINK: Gouda, Stained Glasses
The original cartons of the glasses are kept in conservation. Together
they are the largest drawing in the world.
Description of Glass nr.5 Wouter
Crabeth,1561.
Glass nr. 5. The Queen of Sheba before King Salomo.
On this glass of Wouter Crabeth (1561), famous for his drawings and compositions, the face of the donatrix of the glass, Elburgia van Boetzelaer
is depicted twice: At first as the kneeling Abbess (beneath), secondly just
above, standing upright as the Queen of Sheba.
Dimensions of this glass: Height 11.26 meters, width 4.78 meters.
In 1559 together with the churchwarden Pieter Gerritsz of the St Jans Church Gouda,Wouter Crabeth visited the rich Elburgia van Boetzelaer to receive an order for the construction of the glass "The Queen of Sheba and King Salomo" (presumably in honour to Phillips II). At that periode King Phillips II of Spain was the ruler over a large region in Europe, including The Lower Countries.
Elburgia van de Boetzelaar (1505-1568) was the donatrix of glass nr. 5.
Further details of the story of this creation (see below) can be read in ["Het geheim van Gouda, De cartons van de Goudse Glazen" by: Zusanna van Ruyen-Zeman, Xander van Eck, Henny van Dolder-De Wit, ISBN 9057301679, Walburg Pers,Zutphen,2002]
Elburgis is depicted in official religious dress with the crook and the Lilly, kneeling in front of a prie-Dieu-chair. The robe is lined with squirrel-fur. In front of the Archangel Gabriel, a little dog is sitting, just on the tail of the robe.
After this successful debut, Wouter Crabeth was horoured by Margaretha van Parma (the half-sister of King Phillips II of Spain) to design the transept-glass of the Church.
A drawing of Elburgia (ascribed to either Wouter Crabeth or his elder brother Dirck Crabeth) can bee seen in the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam.
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Relationships. Iwain Moll (II) married first to Geertruyd Pieck and later to Judith Pieck. This Judith Pieck (born ± 1412?) was a daughter of Jonkheer Gijsbrecht Pieck, died ±1436 ,rentmeester van Gelre (1413), and Wilhelmina van Arkel van Heuckelom van Acqoie born ± 1395- died ± 1458. Wilhelmina van Arkel van heukelom was a granddaughter of Otto van Heukelom, Lord of Acqoie (1333). The daughter of the marriage between Iwain Moll and Judith Pieck was Judith Moll (born ± 1440 ?). Judith (Jutte) Moll first was married to a nobleman Wessel van de Boetselaer or Wesceslas de Boetselaer and later to Knight Hendrick Taye, Lord of Ruysbroeck. Judtih Moll is the ancestral grandmother of the van Boetselaer family living to day [See link Van Galen / Van Boetzelaer] According to the following genealogicaL DATA a relationship exsists between the van Boetzelaer-family and the Moll-family living in the province of Gelre and Brabant, The Netherlands. The grandmother of Elburgia van Boetzelaer, Judith Moll van Leedbergen, was the daughter of Iwain / Isewyn Moll and Judith Pieck. Judith is also known as Jutte or Jossine van Moll. [[LINK
Iwain Moll and Judith Moll]
Abbey of Rijnsburg [17], founded in 1133 by Count Floris II "Graaf van Holland (1091 AD)" and his wife, the pious Petronella van Saxen (November 24th, 1144), founder of the Abbey and widow of Floris III. Rijnsburg, formerly called "Hrothaluashem(= Rudolfsheim)", is an early mediaeval village (a Merovingian settlement 7th-8th century) near the city of Leiden. The abbey was destructed after the siege of Leiden 1573-1574 AD. Before 1574 the abbes and the nuns already were escaped. Only a few parts of the abbey are preserved: the Dutch Reformed Tower (at the right), and the choir with the family-vaults of the Dutch Counts.(MAUSOLEUM of the Counts of Holland).
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The Queen of Sheba (standing) and King Salomo sitting on his throne.
It is known that the devouted King Phillips II of Spain considered himself as the "locum tenens" of the wise King, an blasphemous eysore to the Reformed Dutch People !
Family arms of : Van Boetzelaer, Moll van Leedbergen, Langerack and Pieck.
Upper right: Family arms of Iwain Moll ("Mol van Leetburgia"),5 diamonds.It is the oldest known heraldry of a Mol(l)-family,and is dated before 1400 AC.
Upper left : Family arms of Van Boetzelaer
Under right: Family arms of Pieck
Under left : Family arms of Langerack
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REFERENCES and WEB SOURCES
(1) Genealogical data. “Talpa, Genealogisch Tijdschrift Families Mol(l)” (Moll
Magazine). Redaction Dr. Willem Hendrik Moll, Amersfoort,Historician. W.H.Moll,
Published 1936-1940 LINK:
http://www.cbg.nl/CBGCat/detail.cfm?BIBHOOFD__Nummer=BGXXNL004468
(2) CBG :Centraal Bureau Genealogie, ´s Gravenhage : Fam.Arch./00237 and Fam.Arch/0001CBG/depot.
LINK:http://www.cbg.nl/CBGCat/detail.cfm?BIBHOOFD__Nummer=BGXXNL004471
(3) Iwain Moll, Schepenregister No 1215,fol.237,Rijksarchief,Den Bosch,N-Brabant
LINK: http://www.vanderkrogt.net/kwartierstaat/g16-19.html
(5) Grafelijke lenen Overschie: LINK: http://www.3bhistorie.myweb.nl/lenen3beoenreigers.htm
(6) Granddaugther of Judith Moll depicted as the Queen of Sheba, Window nr. 5 St Jans-Church Gouda LINK:http://www.dagospel.cistron.nl/~dagospel/st_jan/goudse-glazen/nl/glas05.htm
(7) History of the city Mol, Belgium, In Dutch language. LINK: http://www.2400.be/mol/geschiedenis.htm
(8) Ed. van den Broekk "Etude sur les jetons de la Famille (de) Mol", 1888.
(9) Van der Krogt: "Relationships to Charles the Great.LINK: http://www.vanderkrogt.net/kwartierstaat/kareldegrote.html
(10) Familiewapens. Heraldy of the van Boetzelaer family LINK : http://home.hccnet.nl/y.h.v.galen/vgwapen.htm
(11) Butkens :"Trophees, 1437-1437, Iwain de Moll, Chef Escoutette des jetons de Bois le Duc".
(12) St Johns Church at Gouda LINK: http://www.st-janskerkgouda.nl/engelse%20tekst.html
(13) The Crabeth family, Artists Biography. LINK: http://www.numarkgallery.com/library/02/0200/T020073.asp
(14) Descendants of the Flemish Mol(l)-tree: Iwain de Mol van Ledebergen. LINK : Kwartierstaat Jozef vanderBiest (2001)
(15) Erycius Puteanus (1574-1646), Patriciersfamilies, 7 verschillende wapens van (de) Mol PUTEANUS, Eryce.- Bruxella, incomparabili exemplo septenaria, gripho palladio descripta : luminibus.
(16) Amelis van Amstel van Mijnden. Familiewapens. LINK:http://www.wazamar.org/Familiewapens/hist-famwpn/hs-11.htm#AvAvMijnden
(17) "Archeologie in Nederland, De rijkdom van het bodemarchief" (1988), Rijksdienst voor Oudheidkundig bodemonderzoek, Meulenhoff Informatief, Amsterdam.ISBN 90-290-9917-8
(18)
INSTITUUT VOOR NEDERLANDSE GESCHIEDENIS; Bronnen voor de geschiedenis der abdij Rijnsburg
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