Aelide de Saemslagh, vrou­we van Zaamslag (heiress de Saemslacht)

SAEMSLACH.
Bruges et le Franc, Vol. III, page 76.

The land and Seigneury de Saemslacht is a noble and ancient land and produced a noble family from which issued several wise and valorous chevaliers. We find Messire Philippe de Saemslacht, Chevalier 1365, who with several other nobles of Flanders was attacked by the Ghenters in the town of Audenarde while in the service of Louis, Count of Flanders. Philippe had a sister Adewine de Saemslacht, wife of Messire Philippe Rollin, Chevalier, Vicomte d'Alost.

This Seigneury consisted of 74 mesures of land and several arriere-fiefs and the escouterie hereditaire of said land which went in time to the Scoutheete noble family of Ghent. Messire Philippe de Schoutheete, Chevalier, Seigneur de Saemslacht, sold a house situate in the Marche du Vendredi to Gelnoet Damm.an 1303, as appears by the registers of the city of Ghent. Several of this family were of the magistracy of Ghent where
they held first rank and bore de gueules ala croix et ourle de merlets d'or.

(L'Espinoy's Recherches des antiquities et noblesse de Flandre.) Rietstap's Armorial General, Second Edition:
Saemslach (van). Flandre. De gu. ala croix d'or, acc. de douze merlettes du meme, rangees en orle. Cq. cour. C.: deux serres d'aigle au nat., iss. de la couronne, celle asen. supp. de l'une de ses ongles un annelet d'or. Cri: M aldeghem! Maldeghem! D.: A la bonne foy, Saemslach!

These arms indicate descent from the de Maldeghem family.
Bruges et le Franc, Vol. I, page 253, mentions Robert Saemslacht, Chevalier, Alderman of le Franc 1307, and Baudouin Saemslacht, Alderman 1334.
Maldeghem la Loyale, by the Comtesse de Lalaing, page 334:

The Seigneury de Saemslacht, situate in the district of Waes is today a village in Flandre hollandaise. It entered, in the 13th century, into the house of Maldeghem by the mar- riage of i\.lix, daughter and heiress of Amoul, Seigneur de Saemslacht (ped. 14), with Philippe de Maldeghem (ped. 13), Chevalier, young~r son of Philippe I and Marie de Hainaut. Philippe de Maldeghem, Seigneur de Saemslacht, brisa the arms of the family in color and metal, bearing au fond de gueules, ala croix et aux douze merlettes en orle d'or, and was head of the house de Saemslacht. His grandson Robert de Saemslacht, Seigneur of said place, was Alderman of the dis-
trict of le Franc. He was killed at Courtrai in a popular excitement 21 June, 1324. His daughter, heiress de Saemslacht, married Philippe, Seigneur d'Axelles (ped. 12), who died 17 April, 1321. They had:
PHILIPPE who sold the Seigneury de Saemslacht to Gilles Schoutheete, Chevalier, ecoutete hereditaire de Lokeren and de Waesmunster, husband of Beatrice, daughter of Jean de Maldeghem, Seigneur de Raes and d'Aertrycke.

Sellers, Edwin Jaquett. De Carpentier Allied Ancestry: Ancestry of Maria De Carpentier Wife of Paul Jaquet, Vice-Director and Chief Magister on the South River of New Netherlands. Appendix III - Van Hecke Allied Ancestry, Allen, Lane & Scott, 1928, p. 98-99