Pieter Dircksz. Hasselaar was an Amsterdam brewer and schepen, and one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company. He is famous, along with his aunt Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, for courageous
Andries Bicker was a prominent burgomaster of Amsterdam, politician and diplomat in the Dutch Republic. He belonged to the Bicker family, who, together with the related De Graeff family, ruled the cit
Pieter Hasselaer
…and 1649, son Dirck succeeded him at the East India Company, and his son Nicolaes was captain-major of the civic guard. Together with Albert Burgh, Andries Bicker and Abraham Boom, Hasselaer received Marie de Medici…
Portrait by Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1642
View on the old town hall in Amsterdam, 1640. The mayors seated in the tower.
Naamlijst hoofdingelanden 1634–1891 in raadszaal 's-Graveland
In 1647, he inherited from his brother Jacob Engelenburg castle near Herwijnen.