Lampsins
The Lampsins family was a wealthy shipping and wholesale family from the Dutch city of Vlissingen . Members of the family sat in the city governments of Vlissingen and Middelburg . In the 17th century the family was promoted to the nobility and received the island of Tobago as a French fiefdom and baronate through Cornelis Lampsins .
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The origin of the Lampsins lies in the Belgian city of Ostend , from where the family moved to Veere , Vlissingen and Middelburg at the end of the 16th century . There they were successfully active as ship owners and wholesalers; also in the administration of the Dutch West India Company and the Dutch East India Company as well as in the various city governments. An important family member is Cornelis Lampsins, with whom the Lampsins family was promoted to the status of a baron by the French King Louis XIV in 1662 . In addition, the firstborn was given the fiefdom and the title of Baron of Tobago .
In 1815 the Lampsins family was introduced to the new Dutch nobility with the title Baron. The last male Lampsins died in 1848. The gender name was continued through a female line; Jonkheer Jan Jacob van den Velden was allowed by a royal decision to place the family name of his mother Johanna Margaretha Baroness Lampsins before his and thus to create the name Lampsins van den Velden , which died out in 1953.
family members
- Jan Lampsins (approx. 1570 in Ostend - 1619 in Vlissingen), merchant and the first employer of the later Admiral Michiel de Ruyter
- Adriaen Lampsins (approx. 1598 in Vlissingen - 1666 in Middelburg), ship owner and merchant, Baron of Tobago
- Cornelis Lampsins (1600 in Vlissingen - 1664 ibid), French baron, baron of Tobago, shipowner, mayor of Vlissingen, head of the Dutch West India Company
- Apollonius Lampsins (1674 in Vlissingen - 1728 in Middelburg), merchant, mayor of Middelburg, head of the Middelburg Chamber of the Dutch East India Company
- Apollonius Jan Cornelis Lampsins (1754 in Amsterdam - 1834 in The Hague), baron, vrijheer von Swieten, politician, chamberlain, director of the Suriname Society
literature
Jeroen-Martijn Hangoor: De mast broken, de lines stretched: korte geschiedenis van het geslacht Lampsins van de 16e tot in de 20e eeuw (In: Den Spiegel (published by the Vereniging Vrienden van het muZEEum en het Gemeentearchief Vlissingen ), year 20, No. 4 (October 2002))