Struggle in The Hague

The autopsy was a recurrent source of conflict. One example in 1699 involved deputy sheriff Van der Dussen, a local police officer of the council with which the Court had previously had trouble in a similar case as he had taken the corpse of a man who had been stabbed to death on the […]
The castle of Ottignies

Its men, its history Etienne van der Dussen de Kestergat – 2016 Preliminary note: summary of City and Commune of Belgium “Tarlier and Wouters”: 1873. Ottignies Castle is located in the Dyle valley, on a rocky spur in the immediate vicinity of the town center. It has its origins in the Middle Ages, it is […]