Jacques Specx (Dutch: [ʑɑk ˈspɛks]; 1585 – 22 July 1652) was a Dutch merchant, who founded the trade on Japan and Korea in 1609. Jacques Specx received...
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moral tradition. Jacques Specx, of the Dutch East India Company, commissioned Rembrandt to complete The Abduction of Europa. Specx had established a...
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Saartje Specx (1617–1636) was the daughter of Jacques Specx, governor of the North Quarter of the Dutch East India Company's (VOC's) Asian trading empire...
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Cornelis Specx (15?? - 11 June 1608), the brother of Jacques Specx, is known as a European who interacted with the Thai court. In 1601 he sailed under...
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arrival in 1611 in the East Indies, he was sent to Japan to replace Jacques Specx temporarily as opperhoofd at Dejima from 28 August 1612 to 6 August...
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limited resources in Asia. On 2 July 1609, a pair of Dutch ships led by Jacques Specx, De Griffioen ("the Griffin," armed with 19 cannons) and Roode Leeuw...
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mathematician and military engineer Simon Stevin, Governor-General Jacques Specx: 463 designed a moat and city wall; extensions of the wall were built...
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Pieterszoon Coen (1587–1629) 30 September 1627 21 September 1629 7 Jacques Specx (1585–1652) 22 September 1629 17 April 1632 8 Hendrik Brouwer (1581–1643)...
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early residents of Japanese descent was Saartje Specx, the daughter of Dutch colonial governor Jacques Specx, who ruled Batavia (present-day Jakarta) from...
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Portuguese opposition in Southeast Asia. In 1609 however, the Dutchman Jacques Specx arrived with two ships in Hirado, and through Adams obtained trading...
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137-139: Samuel Blommaert 139: Hugo Metsers 141: Laurens Reael and Jacques Specx 149: Hans van Loon, governor of the VOC and Boudewijn Büch 198: Hendrick...
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Rembrandt (1626–1663) Albertus Seba (1665–1736), pharmacist and collactor Jacques Specx (1585–1652), merchant who established the Dutch trade with Japan and...
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Banda Islands, in an ambush set up by the islanders. In that same year, Jacques Specx directed two ships dispatched to establish the first official trade...
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(1589–1674), a burgomaster of Dordrecht and the son of a timber merchant Jacques Specx (1588–1652), Governor General Dutch East Indies (VOC) brothers Cornelis...
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Christina of Sweden, Queen Sophie Amalie of Denmark, Jacob Backer, Jacques Specx, Lucia Wijbrants, Dirck Kerckring and twice Giuseppe Francesco Borri...
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Historic Site of Japan in 1922. Jacques Specx was a Dutch merchant, who founded the trade on Japan and Korea in 1609. Jacques Specx received the support of William...
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subdistrict. The Kali Besar bend was once straightened out on the orders of Jacques Specx in 1631–1632. In the early days of Batavia in 17th century, ships usually...
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(modern-day Sinshih) instead. In 1632 he married Saartje Specx, daughter of Governor-General Jacques Specx. Specx had previously evoked a scandal in Batavia and...
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general (1623–1627) Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governors general (1627–1629) Jacques Specx, Governors general (1629–1632) Hendrik Brouwer, Governors general (1632–1636)...
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proceed to Japan and try to open trade there. Van den Broeck, with Jacques Specx in tow, set sail on May 10, stopping by Patani to get a supply of some...
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1627 – 21 September 1629 Preceded by Pieter de Carpentier Succeeded by Jacques Specx In office 30 April 1618 – 1 February 1623 Preceded by Laurens Reael...
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Santvoort was only able to return to Japan in 1609, in the company of Jacques Specx, a Dutch merchant with a cargo he wished to sell in Hirado. Once they...
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Portuguese opposition in Southeast Asia. In 1609 however, the Dutch Jacques Specx arrived with two ships in Hirado, and through Adams obtained trading...
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Portuguese opposition in Southeast Asia. In 1609, however, the Dutchman Jacques Specx arrived with two ships in Hirado, and through Adams obtained trading...
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Name Start End Ref. Jacques Specx 20 September 1609 28 August 1612 — Hendrick Brouwer 28 August 1612 6 August 1614 — Jacques Specx 6 August 1614 29 October...
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restructuration. To strengthen the defense system, governor-general Jacques Specx (1629-1632) redesigned Batavia with an outer city wall, defended by...
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travelled there in 1629 with her sister Maria Odilia Buys and her husband Jacques Specx, also employed by the V.O.C. In 1633 Philips and Petronella married...
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the New Netherlands. In 1653 he became involved in the upbringing of Jacques Specx's children. In 1661 his wife died. In 1662 he remarried Elisabeth Bicker...
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January 2015. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dominique Jacques de Eerens. Works about Dominique Jacques de Eerens at Open Library v t e v t e...
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(1615–1619) Coen (1619–1623) De Carpentier (1623–1627) Coen (1627–1629) Specx (1629–1632) Brouwer (1632–1636) Van Diemen (1636–1645) Van der Lijn (1645–1650)...
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