Adriaen Pauw (1622–1697)

Adriaen Pauw

Knight Adriaen Pauw (baptized on March 24, 1622 in Amsterdam , † January 12, 1697 in The Hague ) was a Dutch lawyer and President of the Court of Justice of Hof van Holland and as the latter led the criminal proceedings against Cornelis de Witt . Pauw was a knight of St. Michiel and an army of Heemstede , Bennebroek , Rietwijk and Rietwijkeroord.

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Pauw family

Adriaen Pauw belonged to the originally from Gouda entstamme ends patrician family of Pauw , which in the course of the Golden Age was on its political heyday of. His parents were the important Dutch politician and councilor Adriaan Pauw and his second wife Anna van Ruytenburch. One of Pauw's uncles was Michiel Pauw , the founder and "sovereign" of his own colony on the North American east coast, which he named Pavonia . In 1644 Adriaen Pauw married his cousin (?) Cornelia Pauw (1626–1692) - a daughter of Reinier Pauw and Clara Alewijn; that Reinier was a son of the eminent Amsterdam regent Reinier Pauw , the grandfather of Adriaen Pauw. This marriage gave birth to six children, only one of whom, Anna Christina Pauw, was married. It is not known whether her marriage to Nicolaas, the Holy Roman Empire, gave birth to Baron Sohier de Vermandois.

Career

The murder of the De Witt brothers in Rampjaar in 1672

Pauw studied philosophy at the University of Leiden and then law. In 1652 he was employed as a councilor at the Hof van Holland . In 1670 he was appointed President of the Dutch Court of Justice. In the same year he was appointed Hoofdingeland (highest rank in the dyke administration ) of the Delfland .

Shortly after his appointment, the trial between Willem Tichelaar and Cornelis de Witt took place in Rampjaar in 1672 . De Witt was told by Tichelaar of the attempted assassination of the Orange Prince Wilhelm III. accused. On August 20, De Witt was acquitted, but all public offices were removed. When his brother Johan de Witt , who had been deposed as a Dutch pensioner, tried to pick him up from prison, the two were lynched by a crowd of people who were angry with the De Witts.

Miscellaneous

The West African Senegambia (17th century), Guinea-Bissau , Guinea and Sierra Leone around 1670 with the slave island Goeree
heruitgegeven door P Schenk & G Valk

Adriaan Pauw lived in a splendid townhouse in The Hague on the Herengracht there, which he called "het huis van den heer van Bennebroek" ( the house of the Lord of Bennebroek ). In Bennebroek he lived in the Duinwijk house and founded the church of Bennebroek with other family members between the years 1658/60.

Adriaan Pauw was also considered the patron of the arts and sciences. P. Schenck dedicated a map of Guinea, Jaloffe and Sierra Leone to him; Jacobus Gronovius in 1689 the edition of Cebes' Tafreel and the Hague preacher GA Saldenus his book De Libris varioque eorum usu et abusu (Amsterdam 1688).

His portrait, created by J. Mijtens in 1654, with his wife and three daughters is still in the Pauwschen family property today.

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