Acquoy

Acquoy is a village pertaining to the commune of Geldermalsen to the Netherlands. It counted 608 inhabitants in 1965, and 615 in 1993.

According to the tradition, certain Jan van Arkel would have founded the village of Acquoy in 1133 after being returned of crusade. It is however improbable, because the year 1133 fall into one period when there was no crusade. The First crusade date of 1096 - 99 and the second of 1147 - 49. Certain sources ensure that it was about Jan van Arkel VIII, but this one lived one century later and was called “the fort”.

In 1305, Acquoy is announced like pertaining to the lords of Voorne. In 1364, Catherina de Voornenburgh engaged for 10 years its house and the citadel of Acquoy with Otto van Arkel which ends up buying to him. To leave at this time, Acquoy belonged, like Arkel itself and Gellicum, with the seigniory of Arkel. After Acquoy had still passed in other hands it was bought in 1513 by Floris van Egmond, count de Buren.

By the marriage of William of Orange in 1551 with Anna van Egmond, grand-daughters of Flowered, Acquoy and Leerdam became possession of the prince and the seigniory was set up in baronnie. Acquoy remained then between the hands of the Orange house until in 1795 where, with Leerdam, it was incorporated in Holland. What was not done, moreover, without the population protesting. In 1820, the village was attached to the Gueldre because of its annexation by the commune of Beesd. One of the titles of the queen Béatrix is always, of the remainder, baroness of Acquoy. Moreover the blazon of Acquoy is always visible in Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam.

Acquoy is on an old meander of the Linge river, which however was cut and forms now an arm died out of U. As in its time, it had been created along the dam of the Linge, the village is of stretched and sinuous form.

The origin of this name was and remains still very discussed. A French-speaking person would tend to see a Picardy form there. The name Acquoy appears already in 1311. For some, it is about a compound of Latin " aqua" (water) and of Germanic the " ooi" (a low and marshy ground). " Ooi" also meets in the names: Wadenoijen, Poederoyen and Ammerzoden (= Ammerzoyen). In this same order of ideas, the name " Rhenoy " would be composed of " Rhenus" = the Rhine, follow-up of very the " ooi". For others, in old sources, " Acquoy" is mentioned like Eckoy or Echoy and that would mean low ground of the lord " Akko or Ekko". It would act in this case of noble clippings, but this is very improbable.

Acquoy is known to have seen being born Cornelius Jansénius, bishop of Ypres, whose theological writings are at the origin of the Jansénisme.

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