Text panel for sixteen Jerusalem pilgrims

General information
Original location Leiden, Jerusalem chapel. The mentioned persons were members of the Leiden confraternity of Jerusalem Pilgrims.
Current location Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal
Commissioner Leiden confraternity of Jerusalem Pilgrims
Artist Anonymous
Date After 1505 (last mentioned date in the text)
Material Panel
Dimensions 45,5 x 229 cm (with frame)
36,5 x 219,4 cm (without frame)
Visual elements
Short description Text panel with sixteen rectangular fields containing texts about Jerusalem Pilgrims, mentioning their year of pilgrimage and their deaths, decorated with vegetal motifs.
Number of pilgrims 16
Depicted pilgrims (from left to right)
Personal information
Name Gerrit Florisz. (or Alantz.)
Social status / profession Priest
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1462 doen was heer Gherrit Florisz. ofte Alantz. priester, te Jerusalem. Ende hij wasser daer na weder int jaer van 68, ende sterf int jaer van 84 den 17 september.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1462 and 1468
Death
Date of death 17 September 1484
Personal information
Name Wouter Coman IJsbrantsz.
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1462 doen was Wouter Coman IJsbrantsz te Jerusalem, die fondateur was van desen huse, ende hij sterf int jaer van 67 op S. Pieters kermis avont.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1462
Death
Year of death 1467
Personal information
Name Kerstant Nannensz.
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1462 doen was Kerstant Nannensz. te Jerusalem, ende hij sterf int jaer van 93 op onser Lievervrouwenkermis avont.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1462
Death
Year of death 1493
Personal information
Name Claes Gerritz. Baselaer
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1462 doen was Claes Gerritz. Baselaer te Jerusalem ende hij sterf daer na op Heilich Sacraments avont. Int jaer van 72.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1462
Death
Date of death 10 April 1472
Personal information
Name Jan Willemsz.
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1462 doen was Jan Wilmz. te Jerusalem ende hij sterf daer na int jaer van 84 sondaechs voor S. Jouris.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1462
Death
Date of death 18 April 1484
Personal information
Name Klaas de Grebber
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1465 doen was Claes de Grebber te Jerusalem ende hij sterf daer na int jaer van 73 op S. Pontian avont.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1465
Death
Date of death 13 January 1473
Personal information
Name Hugo van Zwieten
Social status / profession 1457: Lord of Zwieten; 1475: Lord of Zoeterwoude; 1477-1479: Judge of the council of Holland; 1447-1451: Sheriff (schout) of Hoorn; 1456-1468: Steward and bailiff of Woerden; 1467-1472: Tax collector of Geervliet; 1449, 1457, 1481: Member of the council (veertigraad) of Leiden; 1475-1477: Burgomaster of Leiden; 1454-1482: Member of the council (vroedschap) of Leiden; 1478-1481: Official of the water board (hoogheemraad) of Rijnland
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1465 doen was Hughe van Swieten te Jerusalem ende hij sterf daer na int jaer van 82 den 8en dach in Januariis.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1465
Death
Date of death 8 January 1482
Additional information related to this person
Personal remarks Hugo was a nephew of the Jerusalem pilgrim Dirk van Zwieten, who is displayed on the panel of the Virgin and Child with devotional portraits of the van Zwieten family.
Personal information
Name Jan Wouterz.
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1465 doen was Jan Wouterz. te Jerusalem en hij sterf aldaer op Jacops avont ende leit begraven op den berch van Syon.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1465
Death
Date of death 24 July 1465 (in Jerusalem)
Location of grave Jerusalem, Mount Zion
Personal information
Name Adriaan Stoop
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1465 doen was Adriaen Stoop te Jerusalem.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1465
Personal information
Name Hendrik Gerritsz. Baselaer
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1465 doen was Heijndrick Gerritz. Baselaer te Jerusalem ende sterf int jaer van 81 op S. Geertruien avent.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1465
Death
Date of death 16 March 1481
Personal information
Name Gerrit Gijsbrechtsz.
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1465 doen was Gerrit Gijssebrechtz. te Jerusalem ende sterf int jaer van 71.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1465
Death
Year of death 1471
Personal information
Name Zweder Gerritsz.
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1465 doen was Sweer Gerritz. te Jerusalem, ende hij wasser weder int jaer van 71.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1465 and 1471
Personal information
Name Hugo Jacobsz. van Koudekerke
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1468 doen was Hughe Jacopz van Koudekercke te Jerusalem.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1468
Personal information
Name Willem Jansz. van de Graf
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1469 doen was Willem Jansz vande Graf te Jerusalem, ende Jacotijn de Sasxoije was met hem, en hij sterf int jaer van 81.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1469
Death
Year of death 1481
Additional information related to this person
Personal remarks He was accompanied by Jacotijn de Sasxoije
Personal information
Name Nanne Paelz
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1471 doen was Nanne Paelz te Jerusalem ende hij sterf int jaer van 1505, den 28 dach van Januariis, ende leit begraven tot Wassenaer.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1471
Death
Date of death 28 January 1505
Location of grave Wassenaar
Personal information
Name IJsbrant Hendriksz.
Social status / profession Apothecary
Text Int jaer ons heeren 1471 doen was Isebrant Heindrickz de apoteker te Jerusalem, ende sterf daer na int jaer van 79, op den 3en dach van meij.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1471
Death
Date of death 3 May 1479
Additional information
General remarks Under the text in each field, there is a blot in a slightly different color than the background, covered with a vegetal motif. The texts that do not mention a date of death (probably because the person had not yet died at the time the panel was made) display only a vegetal motif, no blot. This points to the possibility that there once was a phrase 'bid voor de ziel' (pray for the soul) included under each text of a deceased pilgrim, which was painted away after the Reformation. (Van Bueren, 113)
Literature
  • Bueren, Truus van, Leven na de dood: gedenken in de late Middeleeuwen (Turnhout 1999), pp. 26, 80, 113, 276.
  • Damen, Mario, De staat van dienst. De gewestelijke ambtenaren van Holland en Zeeland in de Bourgondische periode (1425-1482). Hollandse studiën 36 (Hilversum 2000), p. 502
  • Tongerloo, Louise van, "Grablegung und Totengedenken bei Pilgerbruderschaften in Utrecht, mit einer Neuinterpretation von Scorels und Mors Bildnisreihen von Jerusalemfahrern," in: Truus van Bueren en Andrea van Leerdam (eds.), Care for the here and the hereafter: memoria, art and ritual in the Middle Ages (Turnhout 2005), pp. 221-247
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