Lieve Geelvinck

Lieve Geelvinck ( born May 28, 1676 in Amsterdam, † August 22, 1743 ibid ) was Lord of High and outdoor glory of Mijnden, Lord of Castricum, the two Loosdrechten, Stabroek and Bakkum owner of the ruins of the old castle of Kronenburg, and Amsterdam Regent during the first half of the 18th century.

Origin and family

The son of Joan Geelvinck, Lord of Castricum (1644-1707) and Anna van Loon sprang from the major aristocratic family Geelvinck, which has long led the fate of her hometown. His grandfather had been Cornelis Geelvinck, one of his uncles was Albert Geelvinck, which acted as a director of the law firm of Suriname. Through a clever marriage policy Geelvinck family had long held an important role in the northern Dutch politics.

Geelvinck was first with Agatha Theodora van Bambeek (1674-1713) married, by which he entered the circle of kinship to the year 1748 in the city government very powerful families and Corver Hooft. From his first marriage sprang four children, among which the well-known politicians Nicolaes Geelvinck. His second wife, Anna de Haze, he married in 1730. Through his marriage to Anna de Haze, which was the niece of Jeronimo de Haze de Georgio, he inherited the noble title of Stabroek, Mijnden and the two Loosdrechten.

Political career

Lieve Geelvinck 1704 Schepen in the year and came in 1708 to succeed his father in the Amsterdam Vroedschap. Between 1709 and 1711 the State Council (alderman ) of the Netherlands, and between the years of 1712 and 1714, he supported the Grand Pensionary Simon van Slingelandt. In 1716 he was appointed one of the seventeen directors of the Dutch East India Company, which he held until his death in 1743. 1720 Geelvinck was called for the first time as the reigning mayor of his hometown.

The republican -minded Geelvinck was actively involved as so many other Dutch rulers of the 18th century in the offices Schacher. So he took as his son Dirck trip (1691-1748), Lord of Groet, in the city government a, Trip was appointed in 1735 to the mayor, two other appointments followed in the years 1742 and 1748. In 1734 prepared Geelvinck the " cool " reception for Prince William IV of Orange- Nassau and his wife Anna of Hanover in Amsterdam.

Lieve Geelvinck was buried in a family grave in the Oude Kerk.