Albrecht van Loo

Albrecht van Loo (The Hague, around 1472 - The Hague, January 5, 1525) was a Dutch Grand pensionary.[1][2][3]

Biography

Van Loo studied at the universities of Leuven and Orléans. Until 1505 he was city attorney of Dordrecht. At the Hof van Holland, Zeeland en West-Friesland, he was deputy secretary between 1505 and 1508, and councilor between 1510 and 1513, and then again between 1515 and 1524. From 1513 to 1524 he was State attorney (Grand pensionary) of the States of Holland. From 1515 to 1524 he was a Councilor in the Court of Holland. The simultaneous exercise of the functions of State attorney and councilor in the Court of Holland was seen as incompatible by the Dutch city governments, yet Van Loo was able to maintain this status quo for a period of nine years. Van Loo preceded Aert van der Goes as Grand pensionary of Holland.[4][3]

Family

Van Loo was a son of Albrecht van Loo, pensionary of Dordrecht (1505-1511) and Dieuwertje van Egmond van Cranenburch. He married Maria Zwinters, daughter of Pieter Zwinters and Catharina Borre van Amerongen.[1] Their son Gerrit van Loo was grietman of the Het Bildt en Raad en Rentmeester van Friesland.

References

1. Oebele Vries (1999). De Heeren van den Raede biografieën en groepsportret van de raadsheren van het Hof van Friesland, 1499-1811. H. Gartmann, W. Vermandel, en J. W. Smit. p. 223.
2. Jan Wagenaar (1770). Vaderlandsche historie vervattende de geschiedenissen der nu vereenigde Nederlanden inzonderheid die van Holland · Volume 21. H. Gartmann, W. Vermandel, en J. W. Smit. p. 6.
3. Jan Wagenaar (1797). Byvoegsels en aanmerkingen voor het ... Vaderlandsche historie van Jan Wagenaar, door H. van Wyn, N.C. Lambrechtsen, en anderen . Byvoegsels ... bestaande in noodige naleezingen Volume 1. University of California Press. p. 218.
4. James D. Tracy (2021). A Financial Revolution in the Habsburg Netherlands Renten and Renteniers in the County of Holland, 1515-1565. University of California Press. p. 120.

Sources

• H. P. Fölting: De landsadvocaten en raadpensionarissen der Staten van Holland en West-Friesland 1480–1795. Een genealogische benadering. In: Jaarboek Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, 27 (1972), S. 294–343.