Johan de Witt
Grand Pensionary of Holland (1625-1672) · Netherlands · Academics · Died at 46
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Overview of the personal family relationships of the Amsterdam oligarchy between the regent-dynasties Boelens Loen, De Graeff, Bicker (van Swieten), Witsen and Johan de Witt in the Dutch Golden Age
Portrait of Johan de Witt (after Jan de Baen)
The Threatened Swan by Jan Asselijn is an allegory of De Witt protecting his country from its enemies
The Dutch fleet relieves Copenhagen after the Battle of the Sound
The Four Days' Battle, by Abraham StorckFamily
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Johan de Witt was a Dutch statesman and mathematician who was a major political figure during the First Stadtholderless Period, when flourishing global trade in a period of rapid European colonial expansion made the Dutch a leading trading and seafaring power in Europe, commonly referred to as the Dutch Golden Age. De Witt was elected Grand Pensionary of Holland, and together with his uncle Cornelis de Graeff, he controlled the Dutch political system from around 1650 until the Rampjaar of 1672. This progressive cooperation between the two statesmen, and the consequent support of Amsterdam under the rule of De Graeff, was an important political axis that organized the political system within the republic.
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