Gerard II van Rode, Heer van Schelderode en Melle

15. GERARD II.
1226 (D & F, I, pp. 264-265, B. 395) - + between 1284, August 8 and 1285
(a.s.), March 2 (NDCourtrai, no. CLXIV, pp. 186-187, and no. CLXIX, p. 193).
nob. (Van den Bergh: Oorkondenboek Holland-Zeeland, I, no. SI4, pp. 271-276).
Knight (Duchesne: Guines, Pr., Pp. 519-520 (1246 (n.s.), March)).
Lord of Schelderode (St. Bavon, no. 274, P. 262 (I252, August 13)).
He seems to have relinquished the title of lord of Schelderode to his son Gerard III (Bruges, Diocesan Archives, Urbanists, charter ad datum 1265, August 11) and to have kept only the title of lord of Melle (ADN. I2 H 2, f°
99 V°, nO. Xx (132) (1271, August)).

• Catherine of Cysoing (St. Bavon, no. 279, P. 266 (1252, October 22); D & E, I, pp. 264-265, B. 395 (I226)).

Son:

- Gerard III (Verslagen en Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, I934, pp. 261-264, no. 5 and no. 6 (I260 (n.s.), March)).

• Isabella of Heestert, widow of Siger, lord of Heule (ADN. I2 H 2, f° 29 v°. no. CXX (132) (1271, August I9)).

Son:
- John (RA. Ghent, Collection Wyffels, no. 59 (circ. 1271))
(Warlop, 1122)
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1248 August 11 Gerard of Rhodes gave a guarantee to the Countess of Flanders for Florent of Holland for the sum of 7200 pounds of Flanders (Ibid.,IV,535andp.XXXV).

1252, May The knight Gerard, lord of Rode or Schelderode, gives to the abbey of Eenham (Ename) 2 boroughs of land situated in Melsen and Venrste (Ibid., VII, 858).

1252 October 22 Gerard, lord of Rhodes, approves the sale of this avouerie and the domain of Borsbeke, in Lettel-Houthem, which had been made to the abbey of St. Bavon, by Gerard de Berleghem, who held these goods in fief from him (Ibid., V , 43).

1284, August 8 Knight Gerard de Rodes, sgr. of Melle, and Isabelle, lady of Heestert, renounce, at the request of the widow of William, count of Flanders, their feudal rights on goods located in Heestert (Ibid., VII, 1106 - 1107).

1284, August 9 Guy, count of Flanders and Marquis of Namur, approves the act by which the knight Gerard de Rode and his wife had endowed a chapel attached to the beguinage of Kortrijk. (Ibid).