Dirck de Vlaming van Oudshoorn

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Dirck de Vlaming van Oudshoorn, painted by Bartholomeus van der Helst (1642)

Dirck de Vlaming van Outshoorn (* 1574 in Amsterdam ; † August 8, 1643 ibid) was a Dutch aristocrat and Amsterdam ruler of the Golden Age .

biography

Cornelis came from the De Vlaming van Oudshoorn family . His parents were Cornelis de Vlaming and Margaretha Wuytiers. De Vlaming van Oudshoorn worked as a dealer together with his two brothers-in-law Jan Cornelisz Geelvinck and Willem Nooms van Aarlanderveen. As Mr. von Heemstede he was named next to Pieter van Ruytenburgh, Adriaan Pauw and Jacob Bicker . In 1621 the three gentlemen sold their share of the glory to Adriaan Pauw. In 1627 he bought the marvels of Oudshoorn and Gnephoek from Margaretha van Mechelen (the mistress of Moritz of Orange ).

De Vlaming van Oudshoorn appeared as city regent from 1606 when he was councilor . In 1608 he became Schepen. In 1618, in the wake of the trial of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt , he was removed from the government by the governor Moritz of Orange because of his remonstranrischen sentiments. De Vlaming van Oudshoorn was appointed mayor six times between 1630 and 1642 . Between 1637 and 1639 he was Councilor of the States in The Hague. In 1643 he was one of the Dutch ambassadors for peace negotiations in Munster .

Several children were descended from his marriage to Wendela van Bronckhorst; so the sons Cornelis de Vlaming van Oudshoorn and Dirk de Vlaming van Oudshoorn, who was Vogt and dikemaster of the Amstelland , as well as the daughters Maria de Vlaming van Oudshoorn, married to Johan Cuyck van Mierop and to Mr. Johan van Someren and Agatha de Vlaming van Oudshoorn, who was married to the Amsterdam councilor Roelof Bicker and her second marriage to Jacob Schimmelpenninck van der Oye .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), part 7, pages 1269/70
personal data
SURNAME Vlaming van Oudshoorn, Dirck de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vlaming van Outshoorn, Dirck de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch aristocrat and Mayor of Amsterdam
DATE OF BIRTH 1574
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1643
Place of death Amsterdam