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    Johan de Graeff, also Jan de Graeff (29 October 1673 in Amsterdam – 12 April 1714) - patrician of Amsterdam, Free Lord of Zuid-Polsbroek - was a member...
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    firm of Frans van Schooten. In 1655 Johan de Witt married Wendela Bicker, daughter of Johan Bicker and Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek, who belonged to the...
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    De Graeff (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈɣraːf]; also: De Graef, Graef, Graeff, Graaff, Graaf and De Graeff van Polsbroek) is a Dutch noble family. The family...
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    19.th Free Lord of Ilpendam and Purmerland. De Graeff was in intimate contact with the statesmen Johan de Witt and Willem III of Orange, the painter Jan...
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    First Stadtholderless Period, which was promoted by De Graeff, he and his nephew Grand pensionary Johan de Witt were regarded as the leading republican protagonists...
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    lay with the brothers Andries and Cornelis de Graeff, and in The Hague with the brothers Cornelis and Johan de Witt, the leaders of Holland's pro-state...
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  • Agneta de Graeff (1663–1725) Cornelis de Graeff (1671–1719) Johan de Graeff (1673–1714) Jacoba Adriana de Graeff (1710–1745) Gerrit de Graeff (1711–1752)...
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    Pieter de Graeff and his cousin Jacoba Bicker, his younger brother was Johan de Graeff, the Free Lord of Zuid-Polsbroek. His uncle was Johan de Witt, Statesman...
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  • Wendela de Graeff (also Wijntje de Graeff, September 22, 1607 – February 27, 1652) was a Dutch patrician and a member of the de Graeff family. Wendela...
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    De Graeff was not particularly popular. Gerrit was a member of the illustrious De Graeff family from the Dutch Golden Age. His parents where Johan de...
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    mother-in-law of Johan de Witt. Agneta was a scion of the De Graeff family and born as the oldest daughter of Jacob Dircksz de Graeff and Aeltje Boelens...
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    royalists. De Graeff was in intimate contact with the statesmen Johan de Witt and Willem III of Orange and the poet Joost van den Vondel. The De Graeff-family...
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    Jan Pietersz Graeff was the son of Pieter Graeff, the first known representative of the Dutch De Graeff family. Pieter was probably a son of Wolfgang...
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    Jacoba Bicker (category House De Graeff)
    Bicker and his cousin Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek, one of her sisters was Wendela Bicker, the wife of Grand pensionary Johan de Witt. She had many well-known...
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    de Graeff. Through his marriage Banninck Cocq got linked with the powerful Bicker and De Graeff families of Amsterdam and also to the family of Johan...
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    murder of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, and was able to determine Amsterdam politics up to the crisis of the Rampjaar in 1672. However, De Graeff was not a...
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    Pieter de Graeff, became guardians and were responsible for handling the maternal estate. In Rampjaar 1672, after the murder of his father, De Graeff became...
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    friends for life, Johan Paul Count of Limburg Stirum and Jhr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, and then moved to the Dutch East Indies. De Graeff became secretary...
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  • Op den Graeff (Dutch pronunciation: [ɔb də(ŋ) ˈɣraːf]) is a German and American family of Dutch origin. They were one of the first families of the Mennonite...
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    Catharina Hooft (category House De Graeff)
    von Kees Zandvliet (see #16, Johan de Graeff) Dispereert niet: twintig eeuwen historie van de Nederlanden, book 2 De Nederlandsche leeuw: Maandblad...
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    Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt was a cousin of him, burgomasters Cornelis Geelvinck and Lambert Reynst his uncles. Cornelis de Graeff grew up in The Hague...
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    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" (The...
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    Lenaert Jansz de Graeff, also Lena(e)rt Jansz Graeff, Leendert de Graeff and Leonhard de Graeff (Amsterdam, c. 1525 – in Exile, c. 1578) belonged to the...
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    Derick Isaacs op den Graeff, also Dirk, Dirck, Derrick Isaacs op den Graeff, Opdengraef, Opdengraff as well as Op den Gräff (1646 in Krefeld - May 24,...
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    Abraham Isaacs op den Graeff, also Op den Graff, Opdengraef as well as Op den Gräff (c. 1649 – c. 1731) was one of the so-called Original 13, the first...
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  • water board. Jan Jacobsz Graeff founded the Alblasserdam branch of the De Graeff family. He was a son of Jacob Jansz Graeff (died 1580) and Geertge Claes...
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    1949 novel De grote geus (The Great Geuz) written by Johan Fabricius. The life and work of Brederode and also his friend Lenaert Jansz de Graeff served Jaap...
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  • as the van Slingelandts, and at Amsterdam with the Bicker and de Graeff families, the de Witts worked to abolish stadtholdership. They sought full sovereignty...
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  • Free and high fief of Zuid-Polsbroek (category House De Graeff)
    Johan de Graeff 1714-1752 Gerrit de Graeff I 1752-1754 Joan de Graeff 1754-1811 Gerrit de Graeff (II) van Zuid-Polsbroek 1811-1814 Gerrit de Graeff (III...
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  • Van Hartogveld, also used the De Grebber swan in their coat of arms. The (De) Graeff family is also descended from the De Grebber family in the female...
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