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Johan relied on his older brother for many matters of state. Johan is considered a strategist in their collaboration and Cornelis as a creative person. [7] Cornelis de Witt was mayor of Dordrecht in 1666 and 1667, [5] and several times deputy of his city in the States of Holland. Between 1663–65 and 1669–71 De Witt was Committed Council of ...
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 story begins in 1672, with a historic event: the lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, considered rebels against the upcoming stadtholder and the Prince of Orange, William III. The plot takes place while tulip mania grips the Netherlands.
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 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.
Its most famous prisoner was Cornelis de Witt, who was held on the charge of plotting the murder of the stadtholder. He was lynched together with his brother Johan on 20 August 1672 on the square in front of the building [1] called groene zoodje after the grass mat used for the scaffold. When public executions went out of fashion the area was ...
Coat of arms of the family Boelens Loen Overview of the personal family relationships of the Amsterdam regent-dynasties Boelens Loen, De Graeff, Bicker (van Swieten), Witsen and Johan de Witt in the Dutch Golden Age. Cornelis Andriesz Boelens Loen (* 1552 in Amsterdam, † 1584 there) was a Dutch statesman and Councilor from the time of the ...
It is unlikely that Spinoza's Tractatus ever had political support of any kind, with attempts being made to suppress it even before Dutch republican magistrate Johan de Witt's murder in 1672. In 1673, it was publicly condemned by the Dutch Reformed Church's Synod of Dordrecht (1673) and officially banned the following year. [17]