De Graeff
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The family divided into different lines, in Holland, Prussia and South Africa including the patrician-aristocratic line of regents at Amsterdam. This line played a role during the Dutch Golden Age and
Descendants of Andries Boelens. 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 in the Dutch Golden Age
Cornelis de Graeff at Soestdijk, painted by Thomas de Keyser and Jacob van Ruisdael (1656-1660).
Gérard de Lairesses "Allegory of the Freedom of Trade", glorify the De Graeff family’ as the protector of the Republican state
Detail of the imperial Diplom with coat of arms De Graeff Vienna, July 19, 1677 (Archive Matthias Laurenz Gräff)
Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek
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Jonkheer Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek was a Dutch aristocrat, merchant and diplomat. Between 1863 and 1868 he was Dutch Consul General and then until 1870 Dutch Minister-Resident and de facto envoy to
De Graeff
…the rank of count, but the southern Dutch nobility would not have put up with that. What you got here remained nothing half and nothing whole. In 1885 Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek received the new Dutch nobility with the predicate Jonkheer for himself and his descendants. This noble branch still flourishes today. Like many other…
Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek
Former full coat of arms De Graeff, free Lords of Zuid-Polsbroek, Purmerland and Ilpendam (painted by Matthias Laurenz Gräff, 2011)
Grand Ball at Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek home in Yokohama. Drawn in 1863 by Charles Wirgman and photographed by Felice Beato
Emperor Meiji receives Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek in 1868