Amalia Margaretha van Brederode
Amalia Margaretha van Brederode( 1625 – 1663), was a Dutch salon holder and member of the Van Brederode family of nobles.
She has been referred to as the first female to have played an autonomous and leading role in the high society of the Netherlands.
She was the founder and leader of the order" Ordre de l' Union de la Joye"( 1645).
She also played a leading role in Brussels during the stay of queen Christina of Sweden there in the 1650s.
Frans van Brederode
Frans van Brederode (February 4, 1465 – August 11, 1490) was a rebel in Holland against the rule of emperor Maximilian, father and regent of Duke Philip the Handsome of Burgundy.
Duke Philip was Count of Holland - Brederode belonged to the Hook faction in Holland, which didn't acknowledge Maximilian.
Brederode was born in Vianen.
He conquered Rotterdam in 1488 and tried to conquer many other cities.
He was successful only in Woerden and Geertruidenberg in 1489.
He was defeated during the Battle of Brouwershaven in 1490, and subsequently died in prison in Dordrecht of the wounds received during the battle.
He was a son of Reinoud II van Brederode and Yolande van Lailang.
William I van Brederode
Willem van Brederode( 1226/30 in Santpoort – 3 June 1285 in Velsen) was Lord of Brederode.
Walraven II van Brederode
Walraven II van Brederode( 8 January 1462 – 14 January 1531) was Lord of Brederode, Vianen, Ameide, Bailiff of Hagestein and Burgrave of Utrecht.
Dirk II van Brederode
Dirk van Brederode( 1256, Santpoort – 16 December 1318, Rheims), died on his journey back from Palestina.
He was buried in the Dominican church in Rheims.
The son and heir of William I van Brederode, he was nicknamed' the Good'.
Dirk van Brederode became lord of Brederode in 1285, bailiff of Kennemerland in 1288, and was knighted in 1290.
He married around 1290 with Mary van der Lecke, daughter of Hendrik II, lord of the Leck and Jutte van Borsele.
He took part in, amongst others, the campaign against Friesland in 1288 under the command of Floris V of Holland, with a fleet of ships.
In the same year he led an army sent by Floris V to Utrecht to arrest the lords of Amstel and Woerden.
Reinoud II van Brederode
Reinoud II van Brederode
( Santpoort, 1415 – Vianen, 16 October 1473) was Lord of Vianen, Ameide, Lexmond, Hei- en Boeicop, Meerkerk, and Twaalfhoven.
Gijsbrecht van Brederode
Gijsbrecht van Brederode( 1416 – Breda, 15 August 1475) was bishop- elect of Utrecht from 1455 to 1456.
Gijsbrecht van Brederode was a son of Walraven I van Brederode and the brother of Reinoud II van Brederode.
He was provost in Utrecht and as leader of the Hook faction, led the resistance against Rudolf van Diepholt.
On 7 April 1455 he was elected bishop by the chapters, but Philip the Good put pressure on pope Calixtus III to appoint Philip's bastard son; David of Burgundy.
Philip violently quelled the resistance against this appointment and besieged Deventer.
In 1456 Gijsbrecht agreed to retract his claim to the bishopric in return for a large financial compensation.
He remained, however, a thorn in the side of David, who imprisoned him together with his brother Reinoud in 1470.
Arnulf, Count of Holland
Arnulf, also known as" Aernout" or" Arnold" succeeded his father in 988 as Count in Frisia.
He was born in 951 in Ghent and because of this he is also known as" Arnulf of Ghent".
Arnulf was the son of Dirk II, Count of Holland and Hildegard, thought to be a daughter of Arnulf of Flanders.
Dirk III van Brederode
Dirk III van Brederode( ca. 1308 – Haarlem, 11 November 1377) was lord of Brederode.
He was the son of William van Brederode and grandson of Dirk II van Brederode.
His mother was Elisabeth of Cleves( also called" Elsbee"), a daughter of Diederik II of Cleves.
Dirk III was officially named lord of Brederode in 1333 by William III, count of Holland.
In 1350/ 51, during the Hook and Cod wars, Dirk supported the faction of Margaret of Bavaria, but was captured at the battle of Zwartewaal( also called the" battle on the Meuse").
He was later released in return for a monetary payment.
Dirk III married around 1334 with Beatrix van Heinsberg and Valkenburg, a daughter of Reinoud I van Valkenburg.
They had at least four children together:
Reinoud III van Brederode
Reinoud III van Brederode( 4 September 1492, Brederode Castle, Santpoort – 25 September 1556, in Brussels), lord of Brederode and Vianen, burgrave of Utrecht, master of the woods and master of the hunt of Holland, member of the Council of State.
Reinoud III was the father of Hendrik van Brederode.
He was also member of the privy council and chamberlain to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
From 1531 on he resided in Castle Batenstein
He was the son of Walraven II van Brederode and Margaretha van Borselen.
As a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, he ruled the free lordship of Vianen and Ameide as if these were independent from the county of Holland.
He had control over the judiciary and the coinage, which were prerogatives of the count of Holland, and which brought him into conflict with the count, who was worried that Reinoud might make claims to the county.
For this he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later reversed by Charles V.
In 1556 Reinoud died, and was interred in the family grave in the present day reformed church in Vianen.
His wife Philippote van der Marck was also buried there in 1537.

Question: Where was the place of death of Dirk Ii Van Brederode's father?
Answer: Velsen