User:Ximbu/sandbox/Claes de Kersmakere

Claes de Kersmakere was present at the first States General of the Burgundian Netherlands in 1464, as a representative for the city of Leuven.

The Kersmaekers name finds its origin as a patrician family in the Duchy of Brabant. It is the subbranch of the 'Van der Calsteren' family, one of the 7 houses whose descendants formed the patrician class and urban aristocracy of Leuven.

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