Sara Haesaerts (1606-1653)

Familie in Belgium, Belge.
Sara Haesaerts is a direct decendant of the last Haezaerts family from Aalst, Bruge,and Bierbeck.

The history of this family is listed back to 981 with the spelling of Haesaerts, Haezaert, hazaert, hazard.

A formal request was made in 1821 to quantify the Beethoven link, and was proved succesfull in so much as that Ludwig Van Beethoven had Flemish links to the Haesaert family. His direct decendants were, and still are, Haezaerts from the Brussels, Aalst area of belgium, his G G G grandparents. A proud offering to be associated with one of, if not the greatest composer of all time.

Music has and will be handed down through family links, with many of his direct ancestors proving worthwhile musicians of many styles, genres, and performance. Pianist's, Cello, conducting, teaching, are some of the inherited traits that have been passed down. Emille Haesaert, Jon Haesaert, Pter Haesaert, Johan Haesaert, Domenique Haesaert, Richard Haesaert, are or were some of these musicians carrying on the tradition.