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|Language skills=Dutch language, Spanish language,
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|Marriage year=1637
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==Biographical synthesis==
Jan Bollart (alt. John Bollart; John Bolart; Jean Bolarts; John Bollard; Jan Bollaert; Jan Bolaert; sieur Jan Bolaert; Joan Bollaert; Joannis Bollaert; Bolarte) (b. ?; m. Aug. 1637, Susanne, daughter of Don Gabriel de San Estevan; d. ?). Merchant.

Resident in early 1650s in ffaylestreet in Antwerp.

"John Bollart is an Antwerper borne and hath lived in the ffaylestreet in that City with his family for all the time of this deponents knowledge of him” [8 years]<ref>[IMG_118_07_2955]</ref>; Jan Popeliers was book keeper and accountant to John Bollart and had known him personally for ten years; Francis Rubbens of Antwerp, servant to John Bollart, stated that "John Bollart for ten yeares last or there abouts hath lived with his family in the ffuyle street in Antwerp"<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 14 f.7v Annotate|HCA 13/69 Silver 14 f.7v]]</ref>

Bollart's four factors in Spain who laded silver for his account were "Gerrard Riper Lopez de Molina, John Baptista and Peter de Zoletta"<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 14 f.7r Annotate|HCA 13/69 Silver 14 f.7r]]</ref>; Peter vander Wyer, a Dunquirke merchant, was a former servant in John Bollart's Antwerp counting house and deposed that Bollart had "lived formerly longe in this deponents fathers house in Spaine"<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 14 f.1v Annotate|HCA 13/69 Silver 14 f.1v]]</ref>; Vander Wyer also stated that John Bollart had been a big exporter of silver to Dover and London in the late 1630s and early 1640s<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 14 f.1r Annotate|HCA 13/69 Silver 14 f.1r]]</ref>. See Baetens (1976) who states "Ferdinande is bedrijvig te Cadiz, Igantius, Manuel en Jan Baptist te Sevilla, waar de lastste in 1932 inwoont bij Peter van de Wayer en Jan Bollaert"<ref>Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart (XXX, 1976), p.146</ref>

John or Jan Bollart appears to have married Susanne, daughter of Don Gabriel de San Estevan, in August 1637. It is unclear whether the marriage took place in Spain or in Antwerp. A web based genealogical source states that "Susanne est la fille de don Gabriel Pagador General des Finances des Pays-Bas"<ref>[https://www.genealogieonline.nl/es/genealogie-peeters-rouneau/I25714.php Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du ..., Volume 2,Félix-Victor Goethals]</ref>. The chapel of Saints Pierre et Paul in the church of Saint Jacques in Antwerp contains the coaat of arms of Jan Bollart, together with a monument to him and his wife: "Cette chapelle fut fondée par Jean Bollaert, seigneur d'Hembeeck, ancien marguillier de cette église. Un acte authentique de 1655 la mentionne comme entièrement achevée. A l'entrée de la chapelle : XVII.e siècle. â Inconnu. â Pierre sépulcrale ornée des armoiries de Jean Bollaert et de Susanne De San Estevan, sa femme. Même époque. â Inconnu.â Balustrade de marbre. â Don de Jean Bollaert."<ref>[https://www.genealogieonline.nl/es/genealogie-peeters-rouneau/I25713.php Notice des oeuvres d'art de l'église paroissiale ... de Saint-Jacques à Anvers, p 125, Théodore Van Lerius]</ref> Bollart's wife's name is rendered in Spanish, French and Dutch forms in archival sources, e.g. "Suzanna van St-Istevan", "Suzanna Catharina van Sante Steven", "van St-Estevan", "Susanne de Saint-Steven", "Suzanne Sanstevan".

Genealogical sources state that "Jean Bollarte" purchased the estate of "Deux Heembeeck" ("les seigneuries d'Over-Heembeck et Neder-Heembeck, avec la justice haute, moyenne et basse, etc." on January 22nd 1649, and that he was ennobled on October 1st 1659.<ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=8wliAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA84 Louis Jean Guillaume Galesloot, Inventaire des archives de la cour féodale de Brabant, vol. 1 (Bruxelles, 1870), p.833]</ref> The same source states that he had three children by his wife Susanne, daughter of Don Gabriel de Estevan. They were Susanne Catherine Bollarte (b.1639, m.1658, d.?), who married Gérard van Uffels; Marie Marthe Bollaert (d.1724), who married Jacques Gansacker; and Anne Marie Bollarte, who married Pierre de Brecht.<ref>[http://gw.geneanet.org/fdh1?lang=nl&pz=daniel+j.s.m.&nz=peeters&ocz=0&p=jean&n=bollarte Peeters-Rouneau Family: Jean Bollarte]</ref> A separate genealogical source identifies five children - in addition to the above named three the source lists "Jan Jacomo Bollaert" and "Maria Theresia Bollaert", who married "Frans Gonsales de Soldaigne"<ref>[J.M.G. Leune, Lillo en Liefkenshoek, Repertorium van personen in en nabij deze Scheldeforten 1585-1786, namen A-B https://static.coret.org/img/go/4067/Johannes%20Laux.pdf, p.262]</ref>

A Jacques (or Jacobi) Bollaert (alt. Bollarte), who was married to Cornelia Alardi, predeceased Jan Bollaert ca.1666, and is likely to have been related to Jan Bollaert.<ref>Erik Duverger, Antwerpse kunstinventarissen uit de zeventiende eeuw, Volume 1, Part 9 (XXXX, 1997), p.30</ref> An ornate memorial to "Jacobi Bollaert et Corneliae Alardi" is in the Church of Saint Jacques (Kerk Sint-Jacob) in Antwerp.<ref>[http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B031404&objnr=60426&lang=en-GB Belgian Art Links and Tools]</ref>; A "Jacobus Bollaert Junio" appears in the accounts of the Antwerp firm of Forchoudt: "fo.169. 1654, 12 Dec.-Jacobus Bollaert Jen Pedro Van de Weyer debit"<ref>De Sikkel, Kunstuitvoer in de 17e Eeuw Te Antwerpen de Firma Forchoudt (XXXX, 1931), p.49</ref>

Baetens (1976) lists a "Jean Jacques Bollart en Cie."<ref>Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart (XXX, 1976), p.216</ref> and a "Gillis Bollart"<ref>Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart (XXX, 1976), footnote 60, p.245</ref> and a "Gio Bollart"<ref>Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart (XXX, 1976), p.371</ref>. Baetens also lists a "Jacob Bollaert te Lissabon" in connection with "zijn vader Jacques Bollaert"<ref>Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart (XXX, 1976), footnote 69, p.151</ref>, and a "Jan Bollaert"<ref>Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart (XXX, 1976), p.165</ref> and a "F.Bollaert"<ref>Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart (XXX, 1976), p.209</ref>

The Antwerpsch archievenblad (1930) makes apparent reference to Jan Bollart stating "Met het huis Jan Bollaert, uit de Vuylestraat (Otto Veniusstraat nu), bestond er lange jaren een soort vennootschap voor den uitvoer naar Spanje. Er kwam echter oneenigheid en een proces ontstond tusschen Andries van Cantelbeeck en Bollaert, dat echter door Jan van Cantelbeeck weer bijgelegd werd."<ref> (Antwerpen, 1930), p.87</ref>

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