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    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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    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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    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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    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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    1629-09-21) Preceded by Pieter de Carpentier Succeeded by Jacques Specx In office 30 April 1618 – 1 February 1623 (1618-04-30 – 1623-02-01)...
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    5 Pieter de Carpentier 1623 1627 6 Jan Pieterszoon Coen 1627 1629 7 Jacques Specx 1629 1632 8 Hendrik Brouwer 1632 1636 9 Anthony van Diemen 1636 1645...
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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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    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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    were:[citation needed] Jacques Specx, 20 September 1609 – 28 August 1612 Hendrick Brouwer, 28 August 1612 – 6 August 1614 Jacques Specx, 6 August 1614 – 29...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    profitable crops to be dedicated to export. He was succeed in 1836 by Dominique Jacques de Eerens. He became Minister of the Marine in 1840 and Minister for the...
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