1.Seger1van Wijk was born 1350, and died Aft. 1418.
Notes for Seger van Wijk:
Seger is probably the same Zegher van Wijc that is mentioned in the Heusden records of 1418.
Kapittel van Heusden, regesten, 1339 - 1604, November 10, 1418
440 1418 november 10 (op sente Mertensavont in den winter)
Schepenen van Heusden oorkonden, dat Jan Tack Heinricszn heeft opgedragen aan Zegher van Wijc een huis te Heusden aan de Damme, belast met een cijns van 3 schelling ten behoeve van de Onze LieveV.-Broederschap, welk huis Zegher weer opdroeg aan Jan Tack tegen een cijns van 2 Franse kroon; voorts geven schepenen vidimus van de akte van 1418 juni 25 (regestnr 436)
457 1420 april 27
Schepenen van Heusden oorkonden, dat Zegher van Wijc heeft opgedragen aan Emont Henric Boudewijnszn de akte van 1418 november 10 (regestnr 440), waardoor deze is gestoken, ten behoeve van het convent (te Heusden)
It is not known when Seger van Wijk died, but he survived one of the most dangerous periods in human history, the Bubonic plague, or Black Death.
In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas that infest the rodents can transmit the disease to humans very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes The disease can also cause spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black. It was only a matter of time before the outbreak of plague in China spread to western Asia and Europe
In October of 1347, the plague had reached Italy, and by the following summer it had spread as far north as The Netherlands, where people called it "The Black Death" because of the black spots it produced on the skin. A terrible killer was loose across Europe, and Medieval medicine had nothing to combat it. In several cities Jews were tortured until they confessed to poisoning the town wells, after which they were burned to death. The fact that Jews had been dying at about the same rate as Christians seemed not to be pertinent.
In winter the disease seemed to disappear, but only because fleas--which were now helping to carry it from person to person--are dormant then. Each spring, the plague attacked again, killing new victims. After five years 25 million people were dead--one-third of Europe's people, and estimates as high as 75 million deaths during the 20 years that it raged. The plague continued in force through 1367, before dying down to sporadic outbreaks for the next 200 years.
