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    Peace of Münster. Cornelis Bicker was the youngest son of Gerrit Bicker and Aleyd Andriesdr Boelens Loen. In 1617 Cornelis Bicker married Aertge Witsen...
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    Andries and Cornelis Bicker were briefly expelled from the Amsterdam city government due to internal political problems. After that, the Bicker family could...
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    their own family in Amsterdam. But Cornelis and his brother Andries together with their cousins Andries and Cornelis Bicker, saw themselves as the political...
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    foreign policy. He, together with his brother Cornelis Bicker and cousin Cornelis de Graeff, portrayed as Bicker-De Graeff league, was one of the main initiators...
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    the failed attack burgomaster Cornelis de Graeff passed on a message from William II that Cornelis and Andries Bicker must resign from their posts on...
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    Banning Cocq (1646–1650, 1654) – Cornelis Bicker (1593–1654) (1653) – Jan Bicker (1591–1653) (1653–1654) – Cornelis Jan Witsen (1605–1669) (1654 – ??...
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  • immense political pressure from the entire Bicker-De Graeff Clan. Their leaders Andries and Cornelis Bicker, Cornelis and Andries de Graeff from Amsterdam as...
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    distant descendant of the De Graeff-Bicker-De Witt family of the Dutch Golden Age used Jan de Baen's painting of Cornelis in his painting "De Gouden eeuw"...
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  • Witt Andries Bicker (1586-1652), powerful Amsterdam regent and Dutch statesman and diplomat; leader of the Dutch States Party Cornelis Bicker (1592-1654)...
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    forces, and warned Gerard Bicker, who immediately left by boat for Amsterdam to inform his uncle, burgemeester Cornelis Bicker. The latter and former burgemeester...
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  • diplomat Cornelis Bicker van Swieten (1592 – 1654), a Dutch historical figure Gerard van Swieten (1700 – 1772), a Dutch physician Gerard Bicker (I) van...
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    1650–1672 Johan de Witt Cornelis de Witt Jacob Dircksz de Graeff Cornelis de Graeff Andries de Graeff Andries Bicker Cornelis Bicker Johan Huydecoper van...
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    Bicker was born in Amsterdam, a member of the notable Bicker family. His parents were Cornelis Bicker and Aertge Witsen. In 1660 he inherited the Swieten...
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  • (1644), Albert (1647), Cornelis (1649), Brechje or Brigitta (1651), Coenraad and Dirck (1656). In 1662, he married Margaretha Bicker van Swieten (1619–1697)...
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    Andries de Graeff and his nice Elisabeth Bicker van Swieten (1623-1656), daughter of burgomaster Cornelis Bicker (van Swieten) and Aertge Witsen, both patents...
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    Boelens. The couple had four children: Andries, Jacob, Jan and Cornelis Bicker. In 1585 Bicker was one of the richest merchants in Amsterdam, initially living...
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    Cornelis Bicker, director in the WIC. Jan Bicker was married to Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek, a sister of the burgomasters and statesmen Cornelis and...
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    Andries de Graeff and the brothers Andries and Cornelis Bicker were her uncle, and Johan and Cornelis de Witt were her cousins. The protagonists of the...
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    announcing the birth of Christ to the shepherds (1639), Louvre Portrait of Cornelis Bicker (1654) Chisholm 1911, p. 519. Pieter C. Vis: Andries de Graeff (1611–1678)...
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    daughter of his uncle Cornelis de Witt After De Witt's death, Pieter de Graeff, husband of his wife Wendela's younger sister Jacoba Bicker, became the guardian...
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    their other two brothers Cornelis and Jan Bicker, his uncle Jacob Dircksz de Graeff and his cousin Cornelis de Graeff. The Bicker brothers had a firm grip...
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    After his death his son Cornelis de Graeff and his nephews, the hardcore republican-minded brothers Andries and Cornelis Bicker took over his role on the...
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    Michiel Reyniersz Pauw were in place for fifteen years. Reynier Pauw II, Cornelis Bicker, and Samuel Blommaert were appointed in 1622. The Dutch West India...
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    (1557-1630) was married to Gerrit Bicker and the mother of the important Bicker brothers including Andries Bicker. Cornelis Boelens Loen married Alyd Claesdr...
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    were also born here. Cornelis and his brother Andries de Graeff (1611-1678), together with their cousins Andries and Cornelis Bicker, saw themselves as...
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    Amsterdam. But Andries and his brother Cornelis de Graeff together with their cousins Andries and Cornelis Bicker, saw themselves as the political heirs...
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    Wendela Bicker (Amsterdam, baptized 30 December 1635 – 1 July 1668) was the wife of Johan de Witt. She was one of the richest young female commoners of...
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    between the stadtholder William II of Orange and the Bicker family. Burgomaster Cornelis Bicker commissioned Huydecoper van Maarsseveen, together with...
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    Statesman of the True Freedom, husband of Wendela Bicker, sister of Cornelis' mother Jacoba. Cornelis de Graeff was a Canon of St. Pieter at Utrecht. Most...
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    railings. Before the current mansion was built, the plot was owned by Andries Bicker and his sister Dieuwertje (1584-1641). Joan van Hellemondt (1616-1665),...
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