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                   circa 1510-1525


The most often repeated is the legend as to the forefathers of Geurt Aldertsz Rosa is that they fled from the town Rosa located in the Kingdom of Spain in the eastern part of the north of the province of Catalonia, Ampurdium. The 18th century antiquarian, Gijsbert Ariens Rijckhuijsen himself a Rosa descendant (A-VI-a) may have been the first to put this in writing and has often been quoted. What is often left out is that he himself did not seem take much stock in the story, saying also that the name may originally have been Roos, a Dutch name known in the area. (Bruijn, de, Enny," Genealogie in Herwijnen", Gens Nostra, 1998, pp. 22-44.)