Cornelis de Graeff
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Cornelis de Graeff, often named Polsbroek or de heer van Polsbroek during his lifetime, was an influential regent and Burgemeester of Amsterdam, statesman and diplomat of Holland and the Republic of t
Portrait by Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, (1636), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Signature of Cornelis de Graeff
Overview of the personal family relationships of the Amsterdam oligarchy between the regent-dynasties Boelens Loen, De Graeff, Bicker (van Swieten), Witsen and Johan de Witt during the Dutch Golden Age
Ancient coat of arms
Johan de Witt
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Johan de Witt was a Dutch statesman and mathematician who was a major political figure during the First Stadtholderless Period, when flourishing global trade in a period of rapid European colonial exp
Cornelis de Graeff
…sudden death of stadholder William II of Orange, the First Stadtholderless Period, which was promoted by De Graeff, he and his nephew Grand pensionary Johan de Witt were regarded as the leading republican protagonists. The progressive cooperation between De Graeff and his protégé, De Witt, was an important political…
Portrait by Adriaen Hanneman, 1665
Wendela Bicker
Portrait of Johan de Witt (after Jan de Baen)