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    believe that Johann Wilhelm also had a morganatic marriage prior to 1585 with Anna op den Graeff, with whom he had a son, Herman op den Graeff. However, no substantial...
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    Catholic territories where they were persecuted. In 1609 Herman op den Graeff, originally from Aldekerk, moved with his family to Krefeld. There he became...
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    his son Joan and his second cousin Pieter de Graeff traveled to Berlin to talk to Elector Friedrich Wilhelm about an alliance against Sweden, which was...
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    as de Graeff. This family today shows the same Coat of Arms as the De Graeff family." Accessed 29 sept 2011 Google book search: Kaiser Friedrich III. (1440-1493):...
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  • Graben († 1521) Peter von Graben aka Pieter (de) Graeff (born around 1450/1460) → family (De) Graeff Andree von Graben († 1521) Georg von Graben († 1522)...
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    tolerant House of Orange-Nassau, and became a brother-in-law of the Op den Graeff family. Then head of the family Heinrich von der Leyen secured citizenship...
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    very important. He was introduced to the court of the Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg, who possessed the Duchy and who married in 1646...
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    progenitor of the dutch (De) Graeff family. Later, Wolfgang von Graben also acted as a major captain of Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich III of Austria and as an...
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    Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 1810 collection Gespensterbuch...
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    was forced to observe a strict neutrality. On behalf of Charles, Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek, Dutch diplomat in Japan, concluded a "Vänskaps-, handels-...
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    Heinrich Gossen, economist (1810–1858) Herman op den Graeff, Mennonite community leader (1585–1642) Friedrich Joseph Haass, physician, "holy doctor of Moscow"...
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    footballer Thomas Schmidt (born 1976), canoeist Alexander Graeff (born 1976), writer Manuel Friedrich (born 1979), footballer Niklas Meinert (born 1981), field...
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    role in Japan during the 1860s, alongside fellow Western diplomats Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek, Townsend Harris, Rutherford Alcock and Gustave Duchesne,...
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    Ban of Croatia (d. 1626) February 12 Duke Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg, third son of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1625) Thomas Whitmore...
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    an attempted stoning by a mob while riding with the Dutch Consul Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek. Harris wrote to Washington in his official reports that Heusken...
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    Party faction of Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his uncle Cornelis de Graeff, but was usually outwitted and checked by De Witt at every step. The fact...
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    Heinrich Engel and Friedrich Kallmorgen and a small gold medal each for Hermann Fenner-Behmer, Wilhelm Hambüchen, Hermann Hosaeus, Wilhelm Kimbel, Hans Looschen...
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  • Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek (1603–1656), mother of Wendela Bicker and mother in law of Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland Andries de Graeff (1611–1678)...
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  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736) January 5 – Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt, German flautist (d. 1783) January 16 – Sir William Ashburnham...
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    dal Sole, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1654) July 27 – Cornelis de Graeff II., Lords of Purmerland and Ilpendam (b. 1671) July 28 – Arp Schnitger...
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    politician with Irish connections (d. 1770) February 27 Gerrit de Graeff, member of the De Graeff family from the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1752) Constantine Mavrocordatos...
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    p. 109. ISBN 978-0-7884-0702-4. Retrieved 16 March 2023. Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (1970). Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (in German)...
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    Catholic bishop (b. 1651) September 30 – Catharina Hooft, wife of Cornelis de Graeff (b. 1618) October 4 Louis Abelly, Catholic bishop (b. 1604) Federico Baldeschi...
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    Friederich Stellwagen, German organ builder (d. 1660) February 12 – Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1639–1669) (d. 1669) March 2 – Pietro...
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  • – Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1613) 1599 – Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (d. 1664) 1608 – Evangelista Torricelli...
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  • Bavaria, Dauphine of France (b. 1660) April 21 – Jacob de Graeff, member of the De Graeff-family from the Dutch Golden Age (b. 1642) April 25 – David...
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    of Ōshima's old associates from the time of the Weimar Republic, Friedrich Wilhelm Hack [de], had by 1934 joined the new Dienststelle Ribbentrop. Hack...
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    'Wachse hoch, Oranien!': Auf dem Weg zum ersten König der Niederlande: Wilhelm Friedrich Prinz von Oranien-Nassau als regierender deutscher Fürst 1802-1806:...
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  • Friederich Stellwagen, German organ builder (d. 1660) February 12 – Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1639–1669) (d. 1669) March 2 – Pietro...
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  • Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1600) 1664 – Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor (b. 1599) 1730 – Peter II of Russia (b. 1715) 1770 – Giovanni...
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