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Cornelis de Witt (pronunciation ⓘ; 15 June 1623 – 20 August 1672) was a Dutch politician and naval commander of the Golden Age. During the First Stadtholderless Period De Witt was an influential member of the Dutch States Party, and was in opposition to the House of Orange.
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Johan de Witt Jr. (1662–1701), secretary of the city of Dordrecht; married to Wilhelmina de Witt, the daughter of his uncle Cornelis de Witt. After De Witt's death, Pieter de Graeff, husband of his wife Wendela's younger sister Jacoba Bicker, became the guardian of his children.
Johan and Cornelis de Witt. Johan de Witt was the grand pensionary of the province of Holland in 1653. This was a stadholderless period in the Republic because Prince William III was still a minor. The accomplished Johan emerged as the actual leader of the civil government, over which the States General, rather than the stadholder, held sway.
Em 1672, após os Países Baixos serem ocupados pela tropas francesas de Luís XIV na Terceira Guerra Anglo-Holandesa, Johan e seu irmão Cornelius de Witt foram assassinados brutalmente por uma multidão enfurecida, tendo os seus corpos horrivelmente mutilados sido expostos.
Cornelis de Witt (Dordrecht, 15 juni 1623 – Den Haag, 20 augustus 1672) was in de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden een van de leidende personen van de staatsgezinden en behoorde tot de bekendste 'Nederlanders' van zijn tijd.
- 15 juni 1623
- Cornelis de Witt
- 20 augustus 1672
1 de jul. de 2015 · How were the brothers Cornelis and Johannes de Witt, murdered in 1672, remembered and forgotten in art and politics? This article explores the iconography and reception of their painted portraits by Jan de Baen and Caspar Netscher.
WITT, JOHAN AND CORNELIS DE (Johan 1625 – 1672; Cornelis 1623 – 1672), Dutch statesmen and patriots. The de Witt brothers, leading statesmen of the Dutch Republic and opponents of the House of Orange from 1653 to 1672, were born in Dordrecht, a city in the south of the province of Holland, where their father, Jacob de Witt, had already ...
