- Jan Borluut
Jan Borluut (ca. 1250 - murdered, Ghent, before 1306) was a
patrician fromGhent .Jan Borluut was born into a rich patrician family of
wool merchant s, members of which continuously held magistrate positions in the city of Ghent from the 13th to the 16th century.After commiting
manslaughter in a feud with another patrician, he was banned (killing another opponent in the proces), on the 11 July 1302 he commanded a band of outcasts from Ghent against the French at theBattle of the Golden Spurs .At a later, undetermined time he was killed in Ghent by his opponents.
He was related to Elisabeth Borluut, who, together with her husband Joos Vijdt, commissioned the creation of the the famous "
Ghent Altarpiece "(1432), which now resides in the 'baptist chapel' from theSaint Bavo Cathedral inGhent On the façade of a romanesque manor located at the 'Korenmarkt' in Ghent, also called the 'Borluutsteen', you can see the family crest: three running deer.
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