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    Gillis Valckenier (1623–1680) was a Dutch politician who was Regent and Mayor of Amsterdam from 1665 to 1679. From 1670, he was an Orangist. Valckenier was...
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    government repression and declining sugar prices, Governor-General Adriaan Valckenier declared that any uprising would be met with deadly force. On 7 October...
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  • July 2022. Valckenier, Pieter (1675). 't Verwerd Europa. Amsterdam: Hendrik and Dirk Boom. p. 9. Retrieved 29 July 2022. Valckenier, Pieter (1677). Das...
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    De Graeff, his younger brother Andries de Graeff, along with Gillis Valckenier, resolved to take charge of William's education to ensure he would acquire...
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    regents around Valckenier. However, De Witt and the state-minded party faction De Graeff (including Andries de Graeff, his nephew Pieter de Graeff, his...
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    Pieter Both (1568 – 6 March 1615) was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Not much is known of his early years. In 1599, Both was already...
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    that post as a consequence of the political upheavals that brought the Valckenier-faction to power in 1668, De Witt saw to it that he was appointed Dutch...
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    Pieter de Carpentier (19 February 1586 – 5 September 1659) was a Dutch administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who served as Governor-General...
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    Wildt (1665, 1666, 1668, 1670, 1673, 1674, 1676, 1678, 1679) – Gillis Valckenier (1666–1727) (1667, 1668, 1672) – Lambert Reynst (1613–1679) (1669–1686)...
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    The Portrait of the Family Hinlopen or Family of burgomaster Gillis Valckenier is a painting Dutch Golden Age painter Gabriël Metsu made c. 1663. It is...
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    Pieter de Graeff (15 August 1638 – 3 June 1707) was a Dutch aristocrat of the Dutch Golden Age and one of the most influential pro-state, republican Amsterdam...
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    levensgeschiedenissen (Gillis Valckenier, Nicolaas Listing, Jan Zeeuw en Catharina van de Perre; In: Jrb Amstelodamum, pp. 78-82. (In Dutch.) Valckenier being the Dutch...
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    Pieter Mijer (3 June 1812 – 6 February 1881) was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in 1866–1872. (in Dutch) Mr. P. Mijer, Parlement & Politiek...
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  • Isaac Coymans, Jacob F. Hinlopen, Jacob J. Hinlopen (1621-1679), Gillis Valckenier and Cornelis Geelvinck. Bontemantel lived at Keizersgracht 107 in a house...
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  • general (1732–1735) Abraham Patras, Governors general (1735–1737) Adriaan Valckenier, Governors general (1737–1741) Johannes Thedens, Governors general (1741–1743)...
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    laid the foundation stone together with Gerbrand Pancras, Sybrant Valckenier and Pieter Schaep. His silver shovel decorated with his coat of arms is still...
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    Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (19 February 1755 – 22 August 1801) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1796 until 1801. He was the last...
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    supported by the important Amsterdam politicians Andries de Graeff and Gillis Valckenier, declared that the Captain-General or Admiral-General of the Netherlands...
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  • Van Geen De Geer / Van Lintelo de Geer Von Geusau / Alting van Geusau / Valckenier von Geusau Gevaerts Gevers / Gevers Deynoot / Gevers van Endegeest / Gevers...
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    he made a trading voyage to the East Indies in 1607 with the fleet of Pieter Willemsz Verhoeff. During the journey, Verhoeff and 42 of his men were killed...
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    Pieter Merkus (18 March 1787 – 2 August 1844) was a Dutch colonial administrator and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1841 to 1844. He also...
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    for a few decades was referred to as The Family of burgomaster Gillis Valckenier, and Visit to the Nursery — in the Metropolitan Museum. There is some...
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    (1725–1729) Durven (1729–1732) Van Cloon (1732–1735) Patras (1735–1737) Valckenier (1737–1741) Thedens (1741–1743) Van Imhoff (1743–1750) Mossel (1750–1761)...
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    States-General, through which Cornelis de Graeff, De Witt and Gillis Valckenier became the guardians of Prince Willem III of Orange-Nassau, the child...
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    Amsterdam branch of the Swedish arms makers) with the son of Burgomaster Valckenier, extended the influence and patronage available to the latter and strengthened...
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    VOC mentality. Look across our borders. Dynamism! Don't you think? — Jan Pieter Balkenende, then Dutch Prime Minister, reacted to the criticism of his government...
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    (1725–1729) Durven (1729–1732) Van Cloon (1732–1735) Patras (1735–1737) Valckenier (1737–1741) Thedens (1741–1743) Van Imhoff (1743–1750) Mossel (1750–1761)...
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    side. He was aligned by marriage with the politically influential Gillis Valckenier, who jumped on the Orangist bandwagon in the summer of 1672. Huydecoper...
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    Batavia on 6 May 1737. The governor-generalship was taken over by Adriaan Valckenier. Anthony Patras (1718-1764), born in Geneva, was a nephew of governor...
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    He finally settled down with his sister Elisabeth, the widow of Wouter Valckenier, at her mansion Valk en Heining at Loenersloot. There his admirers came...
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