Peerage Record – 63610

     Cornelis Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg was born on 14 January 1883 at Huis Doornveld, Doorn, The Netherlands.¹ He was the son of Cornelis Johannes Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg and Cornelia Schuurbeque Boeye.¹ He married Madeleine Marie Blanche Charlotte Ghislaine, Comtesse du Chastel de la Howarderie, daughter of Eugène Adolphe Gérard Gabriëlle, Comte du Chastel de la Howarderie and Marie Elisabeth Henriëtte Gabriëlle de Buisseret-Steenbecque de Blarenghien, on 16 December 1926 at Brussels, Belgium.¹ He died on 16 August 1967 at age 84 at Poolesville, Maryland, U.S.A.¹

     Madeleine Marie Blanche Charlotte Ghislaine, Comtesse du Chastel de la Howarderie was born on 2 July 1905 at Brussels, Belgium.¹ She was the daughter of Eugène Adolphe Gérard Gabriëlle, Comte du Chastel de la Howarderie and Marie Elisabeth Henriëtte Gabriëlle de Buisseret-Steenbecque de Blarenghien.¹ She married Cornelis Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg, son of Cornelis Johannes Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg and Cornelia Schuurbeque Boeye, on 16 December 1926 at Brussels, Belgium.¹ She married Willem Baron Michiels van Kessenich on 17 July 1971 at Lanaken, Belgium.¹ She died on 9 December 1997 at age 92 at Brussels, Belgium.¹

     Eugène Adolphe Gérard Gabriëlle, Comte du Chastel de la Howarderie was born in 1856.¹ He married Marie Elisabeth Henriëtte Gabriëlle de Buisseret-Steenbecque de Blarenghien.¹ He died in 1927.¹

     Marie Elisabeth Henriëtte Gabriëlle de Buisseret-Steenbecque de Blarenghien was born on 9 July 1866 at Brussels, Belgium.¹ She married Eugène Adolphe Gérard Gabriëlle, Comte du Chastel de la Howarderie.¹ She died on 9 March 1929 at age 62 at Brussels, Belgium.¹

     Willem Baron Michiels van Kessenich was born on 16 October 1902 at Langebrück, Germany.¹ He married Madeleine Marie Blanche Charlotte Ghislaine, Comtesse du Chastel de la Howarderie, daughter of Eugène Adolphe Gérard Gabriëlle, Comte du Chastel de la Howarderie and Marie Elisabeth Henriëtte Gabriëlle de Buisseret-Steenbecque de Blarenghien, on 17 July 1971 at Lanaken, Belgium.¹ He died on 9 January 1992 at age 89 at De Bilt, The Netherlands.¹
     He held the office of Burgomaster of Maastricht between 1937 and 1967.¹

     Marie Renée Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg was born on 26 April 1928 at Brussels, Belgium.¹ She was the daughter of Cornelis Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg and Madeleine Marie Blanche Charlotte Ghislaine, Comtesse du Chastel de la Howarderie.¹ She married Alfred Waters Spates on 17 September 1967 at Barnesville, Maryland, U.S.A.¹ She died on 14 May 2005 at age 77 at Poolesville, Maryland, U.S.A.¹
     From 17 September 1967, her married name became Spates.¹

     Alfred Waters Spates was born on 6 September 1911 at Washington, D.C., U.S.A.¹ He married Marie Renée Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg, daughter of Cornelis Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg and Madeleine Marie Blanche Charlotte Ghislaine, Comtesse du Chastel de la Howarderie, on 17 September 1967 at Barnesville, Maryland, U.S.A.¹ He died on 12 September 1998 at age 87 at Poolesville, Maryland, U.S.A.¹

     Béatrice Spates was born on 20 February 1968 at Washington, D.C., U.S.A.¹ She is the daughter of Alfred Waters Spates and Marie Renée Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg.¹ She married Jehan Marie Paul Emmanuel Harold Graaf de Lannoy, son of Philippe Marie Ernest Albert Graaf de Lannoy and Alix Marie Isabelle Louise Ghislaine della Faille de Leverghem, on 25 September 1993 at Frasnes-lez-Anvaing, Belgium.¹

     Thomas Berkeley married Petronella Brooksby.¹
     He lived at Wymondham, Leicestershire, England.¹

     Caroline Gravin de Lannoy was born on 16 July 2001 at Ronse, Belgium.¹ She is the daughter of Jehan Marie Paul Emmanuel Harold Graaf de Lannoy and Béatrice Spates.¹