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Cornelis de Witt (15 June 1623 – 20 August 1672) was a Dutch States Navy officer and statesman. During the First Stadtholderless Period , De Witt was an influential member of the Dutch States Party , and was in opposition to the House of Orange .
Johan de Witt (1618–1676), Burgemeester and regent of Dordrecht; Jacob de Witt (1589–1674), mayor and regent of Dordrecht, member of the States of Holland; Cornelis de Witt (1623–1672), mayor and regent of Dordrecht, ruwaard or governor of the land of Putten, deputy of the States to the Dutch Navy during the Second Anglo-Dutch War
The De Witt or DeWitt family was a prominent family in the history of the U.S. state of New York and a patrician family of the Netherlands. Pages in category "De Witt family" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
In 1660, Jacob's father Cornelis and his cousin Johan de Witt chaired a commission of the Dutch States-General, through which Cornelis de Graeff, De Witt and Gillis Valckenier became the guardians of Prince Willem III of Orange-Nassau, the child of the state, who later became King of England, Scotland and Ireland and stadtholder of the United ...
Johan de Witt (24 September 1625 – 20 August 1672) was a Dutch statesman who was a major political figure during the First Stadtholderless Period, when flourishing global trade in a period of rapid European colonial expansion made the Dutch a leading trading and seafaring power in Europe, commonly referred to as the Dutch Golden Age.
The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers is a c. 1672–75 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jan de Baen, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. [1] It shows the dead and mutilated bodies of the brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt hanging upside down on the Groene Zoodje, the place of execution in front of the Gevangenpoort in The Hague.
Alicia Witt, known for her roles in 1984's “Dune” and “The Walking Dead,” has broken her silence about the sudden death of her parents.
Johan Kievit by Pieter van der Werff. Johan Kievit (1627–1692) was an Orangist Rotterdam Regent, who may have been one of the instigators of the murder of former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt, of the Dutch Republic, and his brother Cornelis de Witt on 20 August 1672, together with his brother-in-law, Cornelis Tromp.