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S. 594 "Yves Schmitz, the biographer of the Della Faille family, referred to Steven as the black sheep of the family. While Steven’s right to the title might be debated given Carlo’s behavior, Steven’s unconventional lifestyle certainly caused his siblings great dismay. Working under Marten in Hamburg in 1570, the twenty year old Steven married an older widow, Anna Beckmans-Hertmans. Because Steven had not reached his majority, Jan de Oude was able to have the marriage annulled. Back in his father’s house, Steven again found amorous mischief, concluding a clandestine marriage with a maid from his father’s house, but this marriage was also annulled. Though he lived in Brussels after the fall of Antwerp, Steven had converted to Calvinism. Chased out of Brussels for his religious beliefs, Steven lived in Haarlem and then Utrecht for the rest of his life. Steven never married, but when he arrived in Haarlem in 1593, he brought his mistress with him."
