Beerta van Arkel van Heukelom

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• Name	Beerta van Arkel van Heukelom
  Gender	Female
  Death	25 Feb 1322  [1]
  Person ID	I23900	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Otto van Arkel
  Family ID	F14360	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gijsbrecjt van Amstel,   b. Abt 1260   d. Abt 1343 (Age ~ 83 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1280  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Arnoud van Amstel   d. Between 12 Feb 1363 and 5 Apr 1363
  Family ID	F14346	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Bertha van Heukelom, Bertrada van IJsselstein. From Wikipedia (accessed 10 Mar 2019): Bertha van Heukelom was a Dutch noble, the legendary heroine of the Siege of IJsselstein Castle in 1296. She was the daughter of Otto I van Arkel lord of Heukelom (fl. 1254-1283) and married around 1280 to Gijsbrecht van IJsselstein (d. 1344). In 1296, her spouse was imprisoned in Culemborg by Hubrecht van Vianen of Culemborg as a loyalist of the County of Holland, in the then ongoing local feud between Holland and the bishopric of Utrecht. Bertha defended the castle against the siege by Culemborg during the imprisonment of her spouse. Her defense has been written about since the Middle Ages and made her a local heroine.

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.