Paulus Buys

Paul Buys, Pauwels and Buys, Lord of Zevenhoven and (from 1592) from Capelle ter Vliet, (* 1531 in Amersfoort, † May 4, 1594 in " Huis Capelle ter Vliet " in IJsselstein ) was a Dutch statesman from the time of the Eighty Years' War which in 1572 and 1585, the Office of the State advocate of Holland and West Friesland held between the years.

Biographical

Paul Buys was born as the son of a well- made ​​family in Amersfoort. He studied at numerous major universities of France, and afterwards took the place of a lawyer at the court of Holland. In 1561 he was appointed as Pensionaris the city of Leiden, and was simultaneously Hoogheemraad the Dutch Rhineland. For country lawyer, he was finally appointed in 1572.

Buys political concept and work

Buys was against so-called Tiende Penning, which represented a renewed tax burden by the Spanish Governor, the Duke of Alva. Buys traveled to the German Arnstadt, where William of Orange was staying after his failed rescue attempt of the year 1568. Paul Buys and William of Orange talked about the unacceptable circumstances by the Spanish troops in the Netherlands. Buys returned immediately back to his Dutch homeland in order to raise in secret support in the form of money for the House of Orange and his colleagues can.

In 1572, refused to suffering, led by Paul Buys, to provide a Spanish garrison in the city. The following year, Buys was appointed head of the State Council of the Netherlands, the " Raad van State " appointed. This was, however, with the risk of military defeat of Orange against the Spanish in the balance. Buys was responsible for ensuring that the levees pierced around suffering and were flooded in 1574 as Hoogheemraad the Rhineland. This enabled the Spaniards no further advance on the city of Leiden. On October 3, eventually suffering was liberated by the Sea Beggars.

In December 1575 Buys tried in England, to make a covenant with Queen Elizabeth Tudor, but which will not ultimately came about. On the establishment of the Union of Utrecht Buys had share. After the murder of William of Orange Buys left the " Raad van State ". When the English plenipotentiary Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester came to the Netherlands in 1585, the political pro- english -minded Paul Buys whose advice was.

Buys political end

After a dispute with the Earl of Leicester, buys a plot in the back of the Count was accused, he was set for six months in captivity. He was eventually released for the sum of 25,000 Dutch guilder to freedom. This sum was provided by various Dutch cities and the British Queen Elizabeth. Buys successor in office as a country lawyer was Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, which " revolutionized " this office.

In 1591 Paul Buys was deposed as curator of the University of Leiden. He moved from Leiden to IJsselstein, where he died in 1594.

Trivia

• His son Cornelis Buys (* 1559 ) was a member of the Dutch county administration. He was in possession of the manor " Capelle ter Vliet " and another in Zevenhoven. It can not be determined when Cornelius died.
• One of Buys descendants (?), Willem Buys, had in the years 1745/46 also held the highest government official in Holland.