Background
Aert van der Goes was born in Delft, and was a lawyer and pensionary of Delft from 1508–1525.
Aert van der Goes was born in Delft, and was a lawyer and pensionary of Delft from 1508–1525.
He studied at the University of Leuven.
From May 1525 to January 1544 he was State Attorney (Grand Pensionary) of the States of Holland. He wrote the Register of Dachvaerden"s Lands of the States of Holland in which the events during the meetings of the States captured. Aert van der Goes was a son of Witte van der Goes.
This Aert was attorney for the Great Council of Malines.
Adriaen succeeded him as Grand Pensionary of Holland. Daughter Geneviève married Everhard Nicolai, who later became President of the Grand Council of Mechelen.
The Arms of the Van der Goes family consisted of black three gold-silver horned goats heads, and the crest a silver bokkenkop between two silver pheasant feathers.