Anthonie Heinsius

Anthonie Heinsius ( born December 22, 1641 Delft, † August 3, 1720 in The Hague ) was a Dutch statesman and Grand Pensionary.

Heinsius came from an old patrician family, and studied law in Leiden. In 1679 he was retired in Delft. In 1682 he traveled to France as a diplomat, but was treated so ruthlessly at the city's royal court, that he began to hate France, was transferred from the aristocratic to Stadholderless union party and a devotee and later friend of the governor of the Netherlands William III. of Orange, who later became king of England.

In 1687, he took over an embassy to England and in 1689 the Office of the Council Pensionary of Holland. Since the death of William III. in 1702 stood Heinsius in the center of European politics. In the War of Spanish Succession, he allied himself with Eugene of Savoy and Marlborough against King Louis XIV of France. This enabled him to secure the Netherlands some benefits in the Accessible tracts.

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