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Tjarda van Starkenborgh Family Portrait
Verhildersum’s main hall boasts a large painting of the Tjarda van Starkenborgh family. One of the largest family portraits in the Netherlands, it depicts Allard Tjarda van Starkenborgh and his wife Gratia Susanna Clant van Scheltkema Nijenstein and their ten children alive at the time. The children who died earlier are symbolized by the angels at the top of the painting. Edzard Jacob, future Lord of Leens, is in the middle wearing a red skirt. The portrait was painted by Martinus van Grevenbroeck in about the year 1674. It is the biggest family portrait of the Netherlands.
Children
1. Frederica Tjarda van Starkenborgh (1649-1687). Married Bernard Johan van Prott, Lord of Rikkarda in Lutjegast, in 1679. It was his second marriage; his first wife was killed by a firebomb during the siege of Groningen at the home of secretary Johan Tammen at the Vismarkt. He was colonel of an infantry regiment and commander of Bourtange in 1672. After an eight-year marriage Frederica died childless. Bernard married Cecilia Elisabeth Tamminga in 1688.
2. Lambert Tjarda van Starkenborgh (1654). Died young.
3. Edzard Jacob Tjarda van Starkenborgh (1657-1716). Lord of Verhildersum, cavalry Major-General and commander of Coevorden. Married Frouwina Eeck (1657-1680) in 1678, who died a week after giving birth to their daughter Gratia Susanna Tjarda van Starkenborgh. In 1684 he married Anna Habina Lewe (1665-1738), daughter of Johan Lewe of Middelstum and Geertruida Alberda.
4. Lambert Tjarda van Starkenborgh (1658-1722). Born in the Boteringestraat in Groningen. Lord of Wetsinge. Married Allegonda Maria Clant in 1701, daughter of Derck Clant and Margaretha Josina Ripperda.
5. Bouwina Tjarda van Starkenborgh (± 1660-1709). Died unmarried
6. Anna Tjarda van Starkenborgh (± 1662-1730). Married Jan Lewe, Lord of Blauwborg in Obergem, son of Johan Lewe of Middelstum and Geertruida Alberda.
7. Elisabeth Tjarda van Starkenborgh (± 1665-1728). Died unmarried.
8. Bartholdt Tjarda van Starkenborgh (??-1692). We knew he was registered as a student in Groningen in 1684 and three years later in Franeker. He died unmarried.
9. Josina Tjarda van Starkenborgh (± 1666-1706)
10. Albert Tjarda van Starkenborgh (± 1669- before 1679). Died young.
11. Hiddina Anna Tjarda van Starkenborgh. Married Bojocco van der Wenge in 1686, Lord of Onstaborg and infantry captain, son of Philips Sigismund van der Wenge and Josina Tjarda van Starkenborgh, which makes him Hiddina Anna’s cousin. After Van der Wenge died, Hiddina married another of her cousins, Coppen Tjarda van Starkenborgh (1654-1728) , in 1690. This member of the landed gentry in Wehe and Zuurdijk, Lord of Borgweer in Wehe, was a son of Ludolf van Tjarda van Starkenborgh and Anna Catherina de Mepsche. He served on numerous boards, such as the Ommelanden Commissioned Boards, and was an associate member of the admiralty board.
Source: Verhildersum, the return of the occupants by Jeanine Oostland. The book is available in Dutch only.
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