ludwig van beethoven was born on 16th december 1770 in bonn.

his parents, johann van beethoven and maria magdalena keverich and married on 12th december 1767 in the church of saint remigio.

johann was 27 and maria 21 at the time.

the beethoven family, partly flemish by ancestry, a mixture of middle class and rhineland peasantry, had two generations of musiciand preceding the birth of the genius who would immortalize their name.

in the genealogy of the beethoven family, there may even be spanish andestors.

the low countries had been occupied by spain, specifically the catholic areas where the family came from.