Geelvinck (Amsterdam rulers)
Geelvinck is the name of a leading Amsterdam aristocratic family from the Golden Age of the Netherlands .
history
Cornelis Jansz Geelvinck (1544–1624) is named as ancestor. At first he was a skipper who was able to consolidate himself in the Dutch city of Amsterdam after the alteration of 1578 . Cornelis had a flourishing trade in peas and beans; he was already active as such in the Levant in 1592 . Geelvinck also supplied the Dutch East India Company (VOC) with provisions. His family lived in the De Gulden Kruiwagen townhouse in Amsterdam's Nieuwendijk . Due to a clever marriage policy, the Geelvinck family played an important role in Dutch politics for a long time . Various family members held various Dutch rulership titles (and also a Flemish title as Heeren van Stabroek ). The last family member died in 1805.
family members
Jan Cornelisz Geelvinck in 1646, painting by Cornelis Jansen van Ceulen
Lieve Geelvinck with his wife Anna de Haze and a toddler, painted in 1733 by JM Quinckhard
Portrait of Agatha Levina Geelvinck (left) and her two siblings Joan and Anna Elisabeth, painted by Arnold Boonen (1705)
- Jan Cornelisz Geelvinck (1579–1651), son of Cornelis Jansz Geelvinck, Mayor of Amsterdam, married Griete Govertsdr Wuytiers in 1601, who died within a month. He had his second marriage with Aecht de Vlaming van Oudtshoorn . This marriage produced at least five children; Margaretha Geelvinck marries Joan Munter . Agatha was married to Frederik Alewijn , and Eva to Hendrick Bicker .
- Cornelis Geelvinck (1621–1689), son of Jan Cornelisz Geelvinck, regent and mayor of Amsterdam , married in 1643 to Albert Burgh's granddaughter Elisabeth Velecker (1622–1658), withwhomhe had six children. In 1662 he married Margaretha Bicker van Swieten (1619–1697), a daughter of Cornelis Bicker . The couple lived in a town house on Amsterdam's Herengracht canal .
- Joan Geelvinck (1644–1707), son of Cornelis Geelvinck, resident in the Amsterdam Singel , was married to his niece Anna van Loon . Geelvinck, together with Nicolaes Witsen, commissioned an expedition under Willem de Vlamingh on the ship De Geelvink , which had the goal of mapping the western coast of Australia. In 1705 this ship discovered the Geelvinkbai , on the coast of western New Guinea . The islands in it were named Geelvink Islands in honor of the Dutch ship. Of the approximately 800 different language variants of the Papuan languages , 33 belong to one group: the Geelvink Bay languages.
- Albert Geelvinck (1647–1693), brother of the previous one, was a lawyer and one of the directors of the Suriname Society . In 1680 he married Sara Hinlopen (1660–1749). Today's Museum Haus Geelvinck-Hinlopen was their home. No offspring were produced in this marriage.
- Brigitte Geelvinck (1651–1721), sister of the previous one, was married to Albert Bentes (-1701), a collector of art prints .
- Lieve Geelvinck (1676–1743), son of Joan Geelvinck; Lord of Castricum and Bakkum , wasan important Amsterdam mayor and regent during the second period without governor . In 1699 he married Agatha Theodora van Bambeek , who died in 1713. He remarried in 1730, this time to one of the richest women in Amsterdam, Anna de Haze . Because of this marriage he became lord of Stabroek , lord of the high and free glories of Mijnden , and of the two Loosdrechte . Lieve Geelvinck was a Staatsgezinder politician who gave the Dutch inheritance holder William IV of Orange-Nassau and his wife Anna of Hanover an extremely cool receptionon their visit to Amsterdam.
- Agatha Levina Geelvinck (1701–1761), daughter of the previous one, she was married in 1742 to Dirk Trip , one of the richest residents of Amsterdam.
- Nicolaes Geelvinck (1706–1764), brother of the previous one; was married to Johanna Jacoba Graafland , from 1737 one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company (WIC for short). Nicolaes Geelvinck remarried in 1743, this time with Hester Hooft . In 1747 he remarried to the mayor's daughter Gerrit Corver . At the time of his appointment in the Admiralty of Amsterdam he was expected to makedrastic improvements in the administration of the same.
- Joan (II) Geelvinck (1737-1802), son of the aforesaid, was named the city's ruling mayor on July 7, 1787, when the Dutch patriots had introduced more democratic administrative principles. After Amsterdam was surrounded by Prussian troops in September of the same year, Geelvinck was on September 29 a member of the commission in the presentation of a satisfaction to the formerly expelled heiress, wife Wilhelmine of Prussia . By order of Wilhelmine, the city government was dissolved and the rebellious citizens were disarmed. Geelvinck fled to Paris to join the La Fayette political movement. After 1795 Geelvinck became a member of the so-called Vergadering van provisionele representanten van het Volk van Holland . Later he also became a member of the Eerste Nationale Vergadering .
- Agatha Theodora Geelvinck (1739–1805), sister of the previous one, married the Baron Dirk Wolter van Lynden van Hoevelaken (1733–1770) and stayed in The Hague after her husband's death. Agatha Theodora had a love affair with the then Prussian ambassador Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeier around 1782. But Frederick the Great forbade marriage. Agatha Theodora's daughter Constantia van Lynden van Hoevelaken also had such an affair when she often met with Willem V of Orange-Nassau .
- Lieve Geelvinck (1730–1757), son of Nicolaes Geelvinck, was married to Catharina Elisabeth Hasselaer , a daughter of the diplomat Gerard Aarnout Hasselaar . The widow of the late Lieve Geelvinck was close to Belle van Zuylen and James Boswell , who proposed marriage to her.
- Lieve Geelvinck (1757–1783), son of the aforementioned, came into the public eye in 1782 when he shot at a ship for fun not far from his estate near Heemstede on the Haarlemmermeer and was thereupon convicted of piracy .
- Nicolaas Geelvinck (1732–1787), brother of Lieve Geelvinck, Herr von Stabroek, was head of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) during the period 1764/1787 , and in 1775 director of the Suriname Society . In 1780 he was named representative of the Oran inheritance holder Willem V within the WIC .
- Johanna Albertina Geelvinck (1762–1815), daughter of Joan (II) Geelvinck, became the palace lady of the Dutch Queen Hortense de Beauharnais in 1806.
- Maria Petronella Geelvinck (1769 in Amsterdam -1831 in Paris ), sister of the previous one, after she had married the Swiss officer Franz Anton Tschiffely, she moved to Bern with him . She owned Gabriel Metsu's painting Portrait of the Hinlopen Family . In 1832 this work was sold to the Berlin Gemäldegalerie by her heir .
Residential houses owned by the Geelvinck
The facade of the Geelvinck-Hinlopen Museum around 1770
Lieve Geelvinck's town house on Amsterdam's Herengracht , painted by Caspar Philips in his Grachtenboek, created in 1770
Nicolaes Geelvinck's Akerendam country house , a description from 1756, by Cornelis Pronk
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