Peter Minuit was a Walloon merchant from Wesel, in present-day northwestern Germany. He was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Netherland. He founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden on the Delaware Peninsula in 1638.
Peter Minuit portrait c1904, based on an older painting
1626 letter in Dutch by Pieter Schaghen stating the purchase of Manhattan for 60 guilders
Samuel Blommaert (1583-1651)
Walloons are a Gallo-Romance ethnic group native to Wallonia and the immediate adjacent regions of Flanders, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Walloons primarily speak langues d'oïl such as Belgian French, Picard and Walloon. Walloons are primarily Roman Catholic, with a historical minority of Protestantism which dates back to the Reformation era.
Walloons wearing Gilles masks in Binche
Georges Simenon, 1963
César Franck
Godfrey of Bouillon, 1330