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==Coats of arms== ==Coats of arms==
{{double image|right|Coat of arms of Marijnus van Rosevelt by Alexander Liptak.png|150|Coat of arms of Theodore Roosevelt by Alexander Liptak 2.png|135|The ] of the Van Rosevelts of Oud-Vossemeer is seen on the left, and the coat of arms of the American Roosevelt family is on the right. Both are examples of canting, using roses to mimic the origin of the families' surnames.}}

In heraldry, canting arms are a visual or pictorial play on a surname, and were and still are a popular practice. It would be common to find roses, then, in arms of many Roosevelt families, even unrelated ones. Also, grassy mounds or fields of green would be a familiar attribute. In heraldry, canting arms are a visual or pictorial play on a surname, and were and still are a popular practice. It would be common to find roses, then, in arms of many Roosevelt families, even unrelated ones. Also, grassy mounds or fields of green would be a familiar attribute.


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Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt and family in 1903.
Current regionNew York, United States of America
Earlier spellingsVan Rosenvelt and Van Rosevelt
Etymology"From the rose field."
Place of originThe Netherlands
MembersTheodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Connected familiesDelano family
Du Pont family
Astor family
Alsop family
Arnold family
Longworth family
Estate(s)Sagamore Hill and Top Cottage

The Roosevelt family is a prominent American business and political family of Dutch descent whose members include United States Presidents Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt and a First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.

History

Van Rosevelts of Oud-Vossemeer

It has been suggested that Claes van Rosenvelt was related to the Van Rosevelts of Oud-Vossemeer, who were amt lords in the Tholen region of the Netherlands. While evidence suggests that Claes van Rosenvelt, the ancestor to the American Roosevelt family, indeed came from the Tholen region where the Van Rosevelts were land owners, no records exist that prove any definitive relation of the two families. It may simply be a coincidence, or Claes van Rosenvelt choose the name purposely because of its noble origins or to honour his local amt lord.

Claes van Rosenvelt

Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt, the immigrant ancestor of the Roosevelt family, arrived in Nieuw Amsterdam (present day New York City) some time between 1638 and 1649. Around the year 1652, he bought a farm from Lambert van Valckenburgh comprising twenty-four morgens (forty-eight acres) in what is now Midtown Manhattan, including the present site of the Empire State Building. The property included roughly what is now the area between Lexington Avenue and Fifth Avenue bounded by 29th St. and 35th St.

Claes' son Nicholas was the first to use the spelling Roosevelt and the first to hold political office, as an alderman. His children Johannes and Jacobus were the progenitors of the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park branches of the family that emerged in the 18th century, respectively. By the late 19th century, the Hyde Park Roosevelts were generally associated with the Democratic Party and the Oyster Bay Roosevelts with the Republican Party. President Theodore Roosevelt, an Oyster Bay Roosevelt, was President Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin. Despite political differences that led family members to actively campaign against each other, the two branches generally remained friendly. James Roosevelt, Sr. met his wife at a Roosevelt family gathering in the home of Theodore's mother, and James' son Franklin married Theodore's niece Eleanor.

Coats of arms

In heraldry, canting arms are a visual or pictorial play on a surname, and were and still are a popular practice. It would be common to find roses, then, in arms of many Roosevelt families, even unrelated ones. Also, grassy mounds or fields of green would be a familiar attribute.

The Van Rosevelts of Oud-Vossemeer in Zeeland have a coat of arms that is divided horizontally, the top portion with a white chevron between three white roses, while the bottom half is gold with a red lion rampant. A traditional blazon suggested would be, Per fess vert a chevron between three roses argent and Or a lion rampant gules.

The coat of arms of the Dutch burgher Claes van Rosenvelt, ancestor of the American political family that included Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, were white with a rosebush with three rose flowers growing upon a grassy mound, and whose crest was of three ostrich feathers divided into red and white halves each. In heraldic terms this would be described as, Argent upon a grassy mound a rose bush proper bearing three roses gules barbed and seeded all proper, with a crest upon a torse argent and gules of Three ostrich plumes each per pale gules and argent. Franklin Roosevelt altered his arms to rid of the rosebush and use in it‘s place three crossed roses on their stems, changing the blazon of his shield to Three roses one in pale and two in saltire gules barbed seeded slipped and leaved proper.

Members

For an alphabetical list of people with the surname Roosevelt, see Roosevelt (surname).
Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt
immigrated to America c. 1649
(died 1659)
Nicholas Roosevelt
(1658–1742)
Johannes Roosevelt
Oyster Bay branch
(1689-1750)		Jacobus Roosevelt
Hyde Park branch
(1692–1776)
Jacobus Roosevelt
(1724-1777)		Isaac Roosevelt
(1726–1794)
James Roosevelt
(1759–1840)		James Roosevelt
(1760–1847)
Cornelius Roosevelt
(1794–1871)		Isaac Roosevelt
(1790–1863)
Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.
(1831–1878)		James Roosevelt
(1828–1900)
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858–1919)		Elliott Roosevelt
(1860–1894)
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884–1962)		Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882–1945)
  • Nicholas Roosevelt (b. 1687), goldsmith

Oyster Bay Roosevelts

  • Nicholas Roosevelt (b. 1717), merchant
  • Nicholas Roosevelt (b. 1747)
  • Cornelius Roosevelt (b. 1731), New York City alderman
  • Elbert Roosevelt (1767-1857)
  • Jacobus Roosevelt (1724-1777)
  • Samuel Roosevelt (1813-1878)
  • Nicholas Latrobe Roosevelt (1847-1892)
  • Jacobus "James" Roosevelt (1759-1840), founder of the Bank of New York, m. Maria Van Schaak
  • Silas Weir Roosevelt (1823-1870)
  • Cornelius Roosevelt (1847-1902), m. Anais Julia Carmencita Piorkque (1848-1941), m. Anastacia Anderpoll (1879-1962)
  • Andre Roosevelt (1879-1962), film director, m. Adelheid Lange (1879-1962), sculptress
  • Hilda Roosevelt (dates unknown), Parisian opera singer

Hyde Park Roosevelts

  • James Jacobus Roosevelt (1692–1776), m. Catharina Hardenbroek, head of the Hyde Park branch
  • Helena Roosevelt (1719-1772), m. Andrew Barclay
  • Christopher Roosevelt (b. 1739)
  • James Christopher Roosevelt (1770)
  • Grace Roosevelt, m. Guy Carleton Bayley (himself a grandson of Andrew Barclay and Helena Roosevelt)
  • John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1840-1909), m. Ellen Murray Crosby

References

Notes
  1. "Amt lords". Ambachtsheerlijkheid. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
  2. "Oud Vossemeer". Oudvossemeer.com. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
  3. "Lambert Jochemse van Valckenburch of New Amsterdam". VanValkenburg.org. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
  4. ^ Heraldry Society "Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 26th and 32nd Presidents of the United States". PUBLISHER. Retrieved 28 October 2009. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help) Cite error: The named reference "AHS" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. The New York civil list. Google Books. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
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