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- "Guillelmine de Straten was the dame of La Torre, Straten, and Varsenare. At the death of her uncle, Louis de Straten, in 1368, she inherited the castle of Balverhoek and the fief of Malcote. She had to render homage and faith for these lands and several other sub-fiefs to Louis de Male, count of Flanders, and in tine of war she had to deliver a horse worth fifteen livres parisis to the count. In 1373, after the death of her brother Richard, sire of Straten and Varsenare, her mother and siblings brought their concerns about the division of his properties before the Council of Flanders for arbitration, which was rendered in 1374, after which, Guillelmine held the manors of Straten and Varsenare without disruption. In 1378 she gave the seigneurie of Straten to her daughter Elisabeth and heid on to the seigneurie of Varsenare, for which she rendered faith and homage to first Loius de Male, the count of Flanders, and subsequently to Marguerite, countess of Flanders in 1384." ["The Dudzeele and Straten Ancestry of Catherine de Baillon", citation details below]
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