1. Familie Herlin / Heerlien / Herlijn / Herlyn

S. 1. "On the 24th of December 1584, Daniel van der Meulen and Hester della Faille married in the Walloon church of Haarlem. One day later, they celebrated the occasion with friends and family in Amsterdam. Both bride and groom had long desired the marriage, but the path towards matrimony had been full of obstacles and pitfalls. The twenty-five or twenty-six year-old Hester had recently lost her father, leaving her an equal heir to his vast wealth alongside her eight siblings, but also under the guardianship of her three older brothers, whom her father had appointed as executors of his estate. If Hester wished to marry the well-educated and ambitious thirty year-old Daniel, the two would have to be able to convince Hester’s brothers and guardians—Jan, Marten, and Jacques—of the advantages of the union." S. 57 "Taking place in Holland, the wedding highlighted the political, religious, and physical divisions between the members of the two families. The differences were most stark in the relationship that developed between the two new brothers-in-law, the Calvinist alderman of Antwerp, Andries van der Meulen, and the loyalist Catholic, Marten della Faille. Confronted by the difficulties of creating amity among kin who were divided by war, the siblings used a discourse of friendship and affection in an effort to maintain and strengthen the bonds of blood and marriage" S. 596 "In his testament, Jan de Oude indicated that his two unmarried daughters must marry with full approval of the three executors. Hester put this article to the test in her decision to marry Daniel van der Meulen against the wishes of Marten. Having converted to Calvinism by this time, Hester married Daniel in the Walloon church in Haarlem on 24 December 1584. All of her children were baptized and raised in the Calvinist manner. After the fall of Antwerp, Hester and Daniel lived in Bremen for a period of six years. In September 1591, Daniel, Hester, and their four children moved to the university city of Leiden. In the divisions of her father’s estate, Hester mostly sided with Jacques. She developed a close relationship with Jacques’s wife Josina Hamels, and they two corresponded with each other in parallel to the correspondence of their husbands. 39) However, after Daniel agreed to have received full payment of Hester’s inheritance with Marten in 1594, Hester wrote to her brother, telling him that she continued to be his “faithful sister.” S. 606 "In his early life, Daniel was not destined to live the life of a merchant. Sent to Cologne along with his sister in 1572 at the age of 18, Daniel enrolled in the study of law in a school in either Germany or Switzerland. The death of his eldest brother Jean in 1576, halted Daniel’s academic career, as he was called back to work in his mother’s trade. Daniel first worked mainly in Cologne, but in 1579 he moved to Antwerp. Andries’s entrance into the magistracy paved the road for Daniel’s own political career. In March 1583, Daniel became wijkmeester of the neighborhood where the Van der Meulens lived, charged with collecting taxes to fund the defense of the city. In the middle of August 1584, Daniel was chosen to act as a representative of Antwerp and the States of Brabant to the States General meeting in Holland. Daniel’s diplomatic mission to push the States General to provide more support for Antwerp failed."