First Generation
Christianus Hußon.
Born abt 1550 in Ronse, Land van Aalst, Graafschap Vlaanderen, Habsburg Netherlands. Christianus died aft 1607; he was 57.
Christianus Hußon (also Huson, Heyson, Heuson) migrated from Ronse, Couty of Aalst (part of the County of Flanders), Spanish Netherland before 1589. In 1589 he was in the Burg Dreiechenhain, Kur-Pfalz. He was an district wine steward in 1607 for the Lords of Wolfskehlen at Burg Leustadt, Grafschaft Isenburg.
Christianus Hußon was apparently a religious refugee from Ronse. Ronse was an important Calvinist community from 1550 to 1580. The Roman Catholic Habsburg monarchy of Spain controlled the Netherlands, implemented the Inquisition, and through war imposed a severe Counter-Reformation to crush Protestantism to restore Roman Catholicism. After the Spanish Duke of Parma defeated the Protestants and reconquered Flanders in 1584, the Protestant weavers of Ronse fled north to Province of Holland in the United Provinces (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands) while many in the upper classes fled to the German States, England and parts of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Spain restored Roman Catholicism to Flanders with no religious toleration for Protestants.