Maximilian van Sevenbergen, Latinized in Maximilianus Transylvanus (Transilvanus, Transylvanianus), also Maximilianus of Transylvania and Maximilian (Maximiliaen) von Sevenborgen (between 1485 and 1490 – 1538, Brussels), was a courtier of Emperor Charles V who is mainly known for having authored the earliest account published on the Magellan and Elcano expedition, the first circumnavigation of the world (1519–22). Written after he interviewed the survivors of the Victoria, and being a relative of its sponsor Christopher de Haro, his account De Moluccis Insulis is a main source of information about the expedition along with those of Antonio Pigafetta and Peter Martyr. His family I) Steven (Stephanus) van Sevenbergen (His family may have come from the village of Zevenbergen in North Brabant, which was also the native town of Erasmus's mother), married Joanna Meers. II) Lucas van Sevenbergen, bourgeois of Brussels, goldsmith, living in Brussels, valet de chambre and engraver of seals of Maximilian king of the Romans, married Jeanne Meerte, born around 1466, daughter of the goldsmith Guillaume Meerte, from the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels, and Gertrude Schuelens. Lucas van Sevenbergen and Jeanne Meerte had three children: 1) Maximilian van Sevenbergen, according to Maximilanus Transylvanus, which follows under III. 2) Barbele van Sevenbergen, mentioned in 1521 as the wife of Master Alexander Schweis, former secretary of the Emperor of the Romans, secretary of the count of Nassau. 3) Anna van Sevenbergen, mentioned in 1513, died in June 1516. III) Maximilian van Sevenbergen according to Maximilianus Transylvanus married in 1521 Françoise de Haro, daughter of Diego, Antwerp merchant and friend of Magellan, and Jeanne Pynapel, deceased in 1530. In 1531 he married Catherine de Mol, daughter of Roland, squire, lord of Loupoigne and of Grambais, alderman and burgermeister of Brussels, member of the Serroelofs lineage. With her he had two daughters: 1) Jeanne van Sevenbergen, lady of Loupoigne and of Bouchout, wife of Gérard van Veltwijck, knight, secretary and ambassador of Charles V, and in her second marriage married Francis Prosper de Genève general of the guards of the duke of Savoie. 2) Marie van Sevenbergen, lady of Grambais, married in 1558 Bernard de Merode, lieutenant of the guards of king Philippe II then one of the leaders of the uprising of the Low Countries. He had two recognized natural children: 3) Maximilian van Sevenbergen, born around 1523, from his concubine Catherine Nijs or Catherine Mysnon. He was legitimized in August 1525. 4)