In Dutch-speaking areas, a schout was a local official appointed to carry out administrative, law enforcement and prosecutorial tasks. The office was abolished...
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Schout-bij-nacht (pronounced [ˈsxʌud bɛi ˈnɑxt] ) is a naval rank of Dutch origin. The schout-bij-nacht was responsible for ensuring that a fleet continued...
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Pieter Schout (c1610 – after 1648), was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij. He was born in Haarlem and was probably a member of a Catholic...
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Jacobsz Schout (c.1570 – after 1621), was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij. He was the brother of the judge Jan Jacobsz Schout and the...
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Loth Schout (1600 – 1655), was a Dutch Golden Age brewer of Haarlem. He was born in Haarlem as the son of judge Jan Jacobsz Schout and Dirkje Steyn, brewers...
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Pieter Jacobsz Schout (1570–1645), was a Dutch Golden Age mayor of Haarlem. He was born in Haarlem and in 1588 he married Anna Matheusdr Steyn there, the...
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Schout is a Dutch surname derived from the former occupation of schout, local official appointed to carry out administrative, law enforcement and prosecutorial...
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Jacob Cornelisz Schout (c.1600 – after 1627), was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij. He was born in Haarlem as the son of the judge Cornelis...
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Port admiral Counter admiral Divisional admiral Commodore Flotilla admiral Schout-bij-nacht Senior officers Captain Captain at sea Captain of sea and war...
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counter admiral is used in all the Nordic countries. In 1771, the rank of Schout-bij-nacht was removed and replaced with the rank of counter admiral (Danish/Norwegian:...
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Vriezenveen in the Netherlands. He was also the last magistrate (Dutch: schout) of the town. His detailed diaries spanning the period 1817-1830, have been...
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17th century portrait of Dutchman Pieter Schout riding a Friesian style horse...
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Shultz Schulzke [de] Other Germanic Scholte Scholten Scholtes Schoultz Schout Schouten Sholtis Shultis Shulthis Shouldice Sholdice Hungarian Skultéty...
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Evertsen Luitenant-Admiraal Cornelis Evertsen de Oude Schout-bij-nacht Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge Schout-bij-nacht Cornelis Evertsen de Jongste 3 September...
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magistrates' bench. In this context, they are a sort of magistrate. The phrase schout en schepenen appears in many legal documents prior to the Napoleonic period...
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sculdasius, in Polish as sołtys, in Romanian as șoltuz, and in Dutch as schout. Until as recently as 2007, Schultheiss was the title of the president of...
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Port admiral Counter admiral Divisional admiral Commodore Flotilla admiral Schout-bij-nacht Senior officers Captain Captain at sea Captain of sea and war...
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Government • Type Colonial government • Body Council of Mayors, Schepen and a Schout • Director-general of New Amsterdam Peter Stuyvesant (Dutch West India...
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from the lowest ranks: bombardier (1695), captain (1696), colonel (1706), schout-bij-nacht (1709), vice-admiral (1714), admiral (1721). By hard daily work...
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he also was schout of Heerlen. When exactly he became schout of Heerlen is unknown, however he was schout before 1756 and remained schout till 1795, when...
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state of New York, especially in introducing the office of Prosecutor (schout-fiscaal). Roman law was progressively abandoned during the early Middle...
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position was known as baljuw (from bailli), but other words were used such as schout "reeve, (medieval) bailiff" (Holland, Antwerp, Mechelen, 's-Hertogenbosch...
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of the Spanish Succession and ended his military career at the rank of Schout-bij-nacht. Cornelis Beeckman became a captain in the Admiralty of Amsterdam...
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Port admiral Counter admiral Divisional admiral Commodore Flotilla admiral Schout-bij-nacht Senior officers Captain Captain at sea Captain of sea and war...
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Port admiral Counter admiral Divisional admiral Commodore Flotilla admiral Schout-bij-nacht Senior officers Captain Captain at sea Captain of sea and war...
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Shultz Schulzke [de] Other Germanic Scholte Scholten Scholtes Schoultz Schout Schouten Sholtis Shultis Shulthis Shouldice Sholdice Hungarian Skultéty...
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Port admiral Counter admiral Divisional admiral Commodore Flotilla admiral Schout-bij-nacht Senior officers Captain Captain at sea Captain of sea and war...
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luitenant-admiraal (1673) Schram, Volckert: schout-bij-nacht (1664); viceadmiraal (1664) Stachouwer, Frederick: schout-bij-nacht (1665) Tobias, Thomas: vlaggenkapitein...
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Shultz Schulzke [de] Other Germanic Scholte Scholten Scholtes Schoultz Schout Schouten Sholtis Shultis Shulthis Shouldice Sholdice Hungarian Skultéty...
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Port admiral Counter admiral Divisional admiral Commodore Flotilla admiral Schout-bij-nacht Senior officers Captain Captain at sea Captain of sea and war...
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