Joan Derk, Baron van der Capellen tot den Pol was a Dutch nobleman who played a prominent role in the revolutionary events that preceded the formation of the Batavian Republic. As a member of the Patr
Portrait of Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol
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In the Low Countries, a stadtholder was a steward, first appointed as a medieval official and ultimately functioning as a provincial and later national leader. The stadtholder was the replacement of t
Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol
…he wrote the noted pamphlet Aan het Volk van Nederland ("To the People of the Netherlands"), pleading for a more liberal society and the end of the Stadtholder regime, which had been marked by corruption and nepotism. He was also an ardent supporter of the legal recognition of the recently created United States…
William the Silent was a stadtholder during the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Empire.