Boreel
The Boreel are a Dutch aristocratic and patrician family of Italian origin that still exists today .
timeline
The name Boreel is derived from the job title Borelli , executioner . Pietro Borelli lived in Ferrara at the end of the 14th century ; his son appeared in the year 1402 as a table holder in West Flanders. His descendants moved to Middelburg and Amsterdam , where they worked as merchants. During the 16th century, the Boreel family developed a great influence in the city of Middelburg, in the Amsterdam city government and as high politicians and state commissioners. The first appointments to the nobility were in 1619 as English knights and in 1645 as baronets . In 1663 the English lord protector Oliver Cromwell elevated the Boreels to peers of England and thereby to barons . In 1814, the Jonkheer title was introduced into the new Dutch nobility and knighthood .
Protagonists
- Jacob Boreel (1552–1636), Mayor of Middelburg, politician
- Johan Boreel (1577-1629), a pensioner of Middelburg, Pensionary of Zeeland , scholar namesake of the Codex Boreelianus
- Adam Boreel (1603–1666), theologian and scholar
- Johan Boreel (1621–1673), Mayor of Middelburg, military, diplomat
- Johan Boreel (1627–1691), knight-baronet, baron von Vremdijke, vrijheer von Duynbeke, Westhoven, Steeland, politician, court marshal of the Orange
- Jacob Boreel (1630–1697), active in the Amsterdam city government and as a Dutch diplomat and envoy
- Jacob Boreel (1711–1778), active in the Amsterdam city government and as Dutch envoy and diplomat
- Willem Boreel (diplomat, 1591) (1591–1668), Dutch diplomat and politician
- Willem Boreel (diplomat, 1675) (1675–1727), Dutch civil servant and diplomat
- Willem Boreel van Hogelanden (1800–1883), Dutch politician
- Willem François Boreel (1775-1851), Dutch general
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caspar René Gregory: Textual Criticism of the New Testament. JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1900, p. 49f.
Web links
- Opmerkingen over de geslachten treatmenteld in Nederland's Adelsboek. 1949, pp. 30 and 31. (PDF; 8.8 MB)
- Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek