[14] T'Serclaes' house was at the end of what was then an impasse, called the Eetengat, now the rue de Berlaimont (see [map]).
[16] The ducal banner, which displayed on one side the Lion of Brabant and on the other Our Lady, was laid up in the Abbey of Afflighem, hard by Alost. This great benedictine house was the richest and most privileged in the Duchy. Its abbot had the right to wear episcopal robes, and he took precedence of all other ecclesiastics in the Estates of Brabant. Founded in 1080, it was demolished by the French revolutionists towards the close of the seventeen hundreds. Some vestiges of the church and cloistral buildings still remain.
[18] See [Genealogical Table IV.]
[20] Chronique du Duc Philippe, chap. lv.
[21] De Dynter, c. 161.
[22] These men seem to have been near kinsmen of Nicholas de Swaef.
[23] See De Dynter.