The Meerte familie is widely spread in Belgium mainly around Brussels and Antwerp. It is a familie of nobities and the name is found even in very old archives. The direct branch goes back to Hendric Meerte born around 1215. The oldest found reference dates from 1173 "eenen Meerte werd geheeten Clutine", which could be "1173 en 1207 eenen Hugues Clutine is schepen van Brussel".
Relations between the Brussels' families Meerte, Clutine and
Serhuygs and their possible decent from the french royal house Capetiens via
Sir Hughes is discussed here. The
Capetiens are the succesors of the Carolingians and through this a possible
link has been made between Meerte
and Charlemagne.
It is almost certain that the Belgium-Netherlands
branch is related to the Meerte
family. Furthermore there exist serious indications that
the Limburg branch is also related
to the Meerte family.
Most of the early Meerte information is from a series of papers by Dr. Jan Lindemans
published in "Eigen Schoon en De Brabander" in 1935-36.
Last update of the Meerte database 27 December 2006.
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On the web site of Dirk
Meert you can find a large fraction of the geneology of Meert/Meerte.
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