Hieronymus van der Ecke

Hieronymus van der Ecke (b. 1380's-1433) was a Brunanter adventurer and and a Founding father. Hewas born in Geldern, a city in the historical County of Gelder (now Germany). Coming to Brunant around the 1410s he took up the fight against the Venetians. In 1427 he was one of the men who attended the Convention of Grijzestad and signed the Declaration of Independence. Hieronymus became the pater familias of a noble family who would become, in 1512, Dukes of Helmond.