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    preserved in Oosterhout. Philips's son Jan I van Polanen, received the fief of Breda in 1339, together with his son John II who built a new castle there. All...
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    Johanna van Polanen (also spelled as Jehenne; 10 January 1392 – 15 May 1445) was a Dutch noblewoman. She was the daughter of John III of Polanen, Lord of...
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    John II, Lord of Polanen (c. 1325 – 3 November 1378 in Breda) was Lord of Polanen, Lord of De Lek and Lord of Breda. In late Medieval times, noblemen were...
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    1295. His son Jan I van Polanen (c. 1285 – 1342) then named himself van Polanen. In the early phases of the Hook and Cod wars, the Van Polanen family, as...
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  • mausoleum of Jan II van Polanen in Breda has been tentatively attributed to Van Mansdale. Jozef Duverger, Mansdale (alias Keldermans), Jan van, in: Nationaal...
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    Polanen Castle was a castle located in today's Monster, South Holland in the Netherlands. The ancestral home of the Polanen family, it suffered a siege...
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    of Wassenaer, Lord of Polanen (1340 – 10 August 1394) was Lord of Polanen (a heerlijkheid south of Monster). The Lords of Polanen were a branch of the...
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    John I, Lord of Polanen (c. 1285 – 26 September 1342) was Lord of Polanen, and Lord of De Lek. John was a son of Philips III van Duivenvoorde (?-c. 1308)...
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    second son of John I, Lord of Polanen (c. 1285 - 1342) and Catharina van Van Brederode. Philip's older brother John II made a fast career. In 1342, John...
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    William continued to rely on Willem van Duvenvoorde, and therefore also on Duvenvoorde's kin: the Wassenaar's, Polanen's, Brederode's, Boechorsten etc. This...
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