Geelvinck

Geelvinck is the name of a leading Amsterdam aristocratic family from the Golden Age of the Netherlands.

History

As a regular Mr. Cornelis Jansz Geelvinck (1544-1624) is called. This was the beginning of a boatman who could consolidate after Alteratie 1578 in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. Cornelis led a flourishing trade with peas and beans, he was as such already in 1592 working in the Levant. Geelvinck also supplied the Dutch East India Company (VOC ) with provisions. His family lived in the townhouse De Gulden Kruiwagen in the Amsterdam Nieuwendijk. Through political marriages Geelvinck the family had long held an important role in Dutch politics. Various members of the family resulted in several Dutch control tracks ( and as Heeren van Stabroek also a Flemish title ). The last family member died in 1805.

Family members

  • Jan Cornelisz Geelvinck (1579-1651), son of Cornelis Jansz Geelvinck, Mayor of Amsterdam, married in 1601 Griete Govertsdr Wuytiers, who died within the period of a month. He had his second marriage with Aecht de Vlaming van Oudtshoorn. This marriage produced at least five children; Margaretha Geelvinck marry Joan Munter. Agatha was with Frederik Alewijn, and Eva married Hendrick Bicker.
  • Geelvinck Cornelis (1621-1689), son of Jan Cornelisz Geelvinck, Regent and Mayor of Amsterdam, married in 1643 with the grandson of Albert Burgh Dochter, Elisabeth Velecker ( 1622-1658 ), with this he had six children. In 1662 he married Margaretha Bicker van Swieten ( 1619-1697 ), a daughter of Cornelis Bicker. The couple lived in a town house on Amsterdam's Herengracht.
  • Joan Geelvinck (1644-1707), son of Cornelis Geelvinck, residing in Amsterdam Singel, was married to his niece Anna van Loon. Geelvinck jointly instructed Nicolaes Witsen an expedition under Willem de Vlamingh, on the ship De Geelvink, which had the aim to capture the western coast of Australia mapped. In 1705 this ship discovered the Geelvinkbai, located on the coast of New Guinea. The islands were named in the Dutch ship in honor Geelvink Islands. Of the approximately 800 different language versions of the Papuan 33 counted to a group: the Geelvink Bay languages.
  • Albert Geelvinck (1647-1693), brother of the preceding, was a lawyer and a director of the law firm of Suriname. In 1680 he married Sara Hinlopen ( 1660-1749 ). The present museum building Geelvinck - Hinlopen was their abode. In this marriage no children were conceived.
  • Brigitte Geelvinck (1651-1721), sister of the preceding, was married to Albert Bente ( -1701 ), a collector of fine art prints.
  • Lieve Geelvinck (1676-1743), son of Joan Geelvinck; Lord of Castricum and Bakkum was the period of the Second place strapless period a major Amsterdam mayor and governor. In 1699, he married Agatha Theodora van Bambeek, but which is already died in 1713. He married in 1730 again, this time with one of the richest women in Amsterdam, Anna de Haze. Because of this marriage he became Lord of Stabroek, the Lord of the High and outdoor glory of Mijnden, and the two Loosdrechten. Lieve Geelvinck was a Staatsgezinder politician who on their visit to Amsterdam prepared for the Dutch hereditary stadtholder William IV of Orange- Nassau and his wife Anna of Hanover a very cool reception.
  • Agatha Levina Geelvinck (1701-1761), daughter of the preceding, she was married in 1742 with Dirk trip, one of the richest inhabitants of Amsterdam.
  • Nicolaes Geelvinck (1706-1764), brother of the preceding; was married to Johanna Jacoba Graafland, from 1737, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company ( WIC briefly mentioned ). Nicolaes Geelvinck married in 1743 again, this time with Hester Hooft. In 1747 he married again with the daughter of the mayor Gerrit Corver. From him were expected zeitens its setting in the Admiralty of Amsterdam and dramatic improvements in the management derselbigen.
  • Joan (II ) Geelvinck ( 1737-1802 ), son of the aforesaid, was named on 7 July 1787 the Governing Mayor of the city, when the Dutch ( Dutch ) Patriots had introduced more democratic management principles. After Amsterdam was enclosed by Prussian troops in September desselbigen year Geelvinck was September 29, a Commissioner in the performance of a satisfaction to the formerly displaced Erbstatthalters wife Wilhelmina of Prussia. By order of Wilhelmine towards the city government was disbanded, and the insurgent citizenship was disarmed. Geelvinck fled to Paris to join the political current La Fayette. After the 1795 Geelvinck was a member of the so-called van Vergadering provisionele via representatives van het people of Holland. Later, he was also a member of the Eerste Nationale Vergadering.
  • Agatha Theodora Geelvinck (1739-1805), sister of the preceding, married to Baron Dirk Wolter van Lynden van Hoevelaken (1733-1770), and remained after the death of her husband in The Hague. Agatha Theodora had around the year 1782 a love affair with the then Prussian ambassador Friedrich Wilhelm von Thule Meier. But Frederick the Great forbade a marriage. Even Agatha Theodora's daughter Constantia van Lynden van Hoevelaken conducted such an affair when she met frequently with Willem V of Orange -Nassau.
  • Lieve Geelvinck (1730-1757), son of Nicolaes Geelvinck was married to Catharina Elisabeth Hasselaer, a daughter of the diplomat Gerard Aarnout Hasselaar. The widow of the late Lieve Geelvinck maintained close ties of friendship with Belle van Zuylen and James Boswell, who asked her to marry him.
  • Lieve Geelvinck (1757-1783), son of the above, came in 1782 to the public, when he was near his estate at Heemstede on the Haarlemmermeer fired on a ship for fun and sentenced for piracy.
  • Nicolaas Geelvinck ' (1732-1787), brother of Lieve Geelvinck, Lord of Stabroek, was within the period 1764/1787 Head of the Dutch West India Company (WIC ), and in 1775 director of the law firm of Suriname. In 1780 he was appointed within the WIC to the representatives of the Orange Erbstatthalters Willem V..
  • Johanna Albertina Geelvinck (1762-1815), daughter of Joan (II ) Geelvinck, 1806 Palace Lady of the Dutch Queen Hortense de Beauharnais year.
  • Maria Petronella Geelvinck ( 1769 in Amsterdam in 1831 in Paris), sister of the former, after the Swiss officer Franz Anton Tschiffely geehelicht, she moved with him to Bern. In their possession were Gabriel Metsu's paintings Portrait of family Hinlopen. In 1832 this plant was sold by her heirs to the Berlin Gemäldegalerie.

Houses owned by the Geelvinck

  • The facade of the Museum Geelvinck - Hinlopen 1770
  • Lieve Geelvincks townhouse in the Amsterdam Herengracht, painted by Caspar Philips in his created in 1770 Grachtenboek
  • Nicolaes Geelvincks country house Akerendam, a description from 1756, by Cornelis Pronk

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