Huydecoper van Maarsseveen

The coat of arms of the Huydecoper van Maarsseveen family, drawn up by Jan Moninckx

Joan Huydecoper (I) van Maarsseveen and his rifle brotherhood (detail painting by Govert Flinck , 1648, in the Amsterdam Historical Museum )

Portrait of the married couple Joan Huydecoper (I) van Maarsseveen and Sophia Coymans

View of the Goudestein country house

View of the Zeist Castle

Huydecoper van Maarsseveen is the name of a patrician family that was raised to the Swedish nobility in 1637 and introduced into the newer Dutch nobility in 1814 .

In the middle of the 16th century, various family members called themselves Bal , from the end of the same century Huydecoper and later, after the reign of Maarsseveen, called Huydecoper van Maarsseveen . January Jacobsz Bal Huydecoper van Wieringen (1541-1624), since the alteratie in 1578 member of the government of Amsterdam , like his father Jacob Bal bought large estates on the Vecht . In the course of the Dutch Golden Age , the family became one of the most influential regent families in Amsterdam .

The Huydecoper van Maarsseveen family

See also: Regent of Amsterdam

• Jacob Andriesz Bal (* 1510), married to power eld Geurtsdr van Beuningen
  • Jan Jacobsz Bal Huydecoper van Wieringen (1541–1624), originally Jan Jacob Bal , had taken the name of his maternal grandmother; he was a wholesaler and since the Alteratie of Amsterdam in 1578 Schepen , Vroedschap and councilor of Amsterdam; In the years 1591 and 1608 he acquired various properties along the river Vecht through purchase.
    • Jacob Huydecoper (1568–1599) traveled to India under the direction of Cornelis de Houtman and “around the world” under Olivier van Noort and Jacques Mahu , where he died on the way.
    • Joan Huydecoper (I) van Maarsseveen (1599–1661), knight , lord of Thamen , Blokland, Maarsseveen and Neerdijk, was an important mayor and regent of Amsterdam , a great art lover and patron of the artists Govert Flinck , Rembrandt van Rijn , Bartholomeus van der Helst , Jan Vos and Joost van den Vondel . He married in 1624 with Maria Coymans (from 1603 to 1647), he was in Amsterdam street Singel living and spent the summer on his country house Goudestein , in 1637 he was appointed Swedish Knight and in 1650 by Louis XIV. In accepted the French knightly order " Ordre de Saint-Michel ".

The Huydecopers from the later 17th century

The town house of the Huydecoper family in the Amsterdam Singel, which was destroyed in an air raid in 1943

• Johan Huydecoper (II) van Maarsseveen (1625–1704), knight, was Lord of Maarsseveen, regent and mayor of the city of Amsterdam, one of the directors of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), married to his niece Sophia Coymans (1636–1714) , and lived with this on Lauriergracht .
  • Johannes Huydecoper (1656–1703), knight, visited in 1678 together with his nephew Joseph Coymans (1656–1720) and Pieter de Graeff the Dutch envoy Jacob Boreel in Paris, was considered a lover of poetry and ballet , had contacts to Lucas Rotgans, Pieter Bernagie, Govert Bidloo, Hermanus Angelkot, Romeyn de Hooghe , Petrus Francius and Johann Georg Graevius , married to the "domineering" Maria Temminck. He was the owner of the Silversteijn country house in Maarssen .
    • Adriaan Huydecoper (1693–1740), knight, married Sara Maria van Asch van Wijk.
      • Jan Pieter Theodoor Huydecoper (1728–1767), knight, member of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) on the Gold Coast since 1764
    • Balthazar Huydecoper (1695–1778), knight, was a linguist , linguist of the Dutch language and a historian .
  • Josef Huydecoper (1667–1709), knight, was married to his niece Sophia Isabella Coymans and lived in the so-called Coijmanshuis .
  • Jan Elias Huydecoper (1669–1744), knight, married to Agatha Hasselaer , was a member of the Amsterdam vroedschap and in 1739 was appointed mayor.
    • Joan Huydecoper (III) van Maarsseveen (1693–1752), knight, lord of Maarsseveen, married twice, first to MA Reael and then to MA van der Meulen, member of the Amsterdam Vroedschap and elected mayor in 1749, was head of the Dutch West India Company (WIC), lived in a town house on the Singel. His widow MA van der Meulen had the Goudestein country house expanded on a large scale.

The Huydecopers from the 18th century

• Jan Elias Huydecoper van Maarsseveen (1735-1808), Knight, Lord of Maarsseveen, Ambachtsherr von Urk and Emmeloord , married to IA Barones van Lockhorst, was appointed ruling Mayor of Amsterdam four times between 1785 and 1794. He was councilor of the Admiralty of Amsterdam , Council of the States General of the Netherlands and between 1793 and 1795 one of the last directors of the Suriname law firm , he lived in a town house on Keizersgracht and a country house, called Doornburg , near Maarsseveen.
  • Joan Huydecoper (1769–1836), knight, mayor of The Hague , councilor of “Notabelenvergadering”, director of De Nederlandsche Bank , married to M. Alewijn and then to S. ten Hove
    • Jan Elias Huydecoper (1798–1865), knight, lived in Zeist Castle .
• Willem Huydecoper (1744-1815), knight, commissioner of the Amsterdam currency exchange bank , laid the first stone of the country house Goudestein to be renovated in 1754 , lived in a house on Kloveniersburgwal , in which Jan Six and Dirck Tulp had lived before him . He was married to Isabella Constantia Ferdinanda van Weede (1743–1807).
  • Jan Willem Huydecoper van Maarsseveen (1769–1829), knight, was an adjunct maire of Amsterdam (1811) and mayor of Hoorn in 1811 .

The Huydecopers from the 19th century

• Johan Huydecoper (V) van Maarsseveen (1821–1890) was Mayor of Maarssen . He was a councilor of the Dutch First Chamber and lived in Goudestein.
• Jan Elias Huydecoper (1853–1911) was the Council of the States of Utrecht . It is not certain whether he laid the foundation stone for Wulperhorst .

Miscellaneous

• The country houses Spruytenburg, Neerbeek, Sluysoort, Geesbeek, Doornburgh, Silverstein, Cromwijk, Vreedenhoff and Groeneveld Castle were owned by the Huydecoper van Maarsseveen family.

The African branch of the Huydecoper family

• Willem Huydecoper (1788–1826), Dutch envoy to the court of the King of Ashanti in Kumasi
• Jacob Huydecoper (1811–1845), also a Dutch envoy to the court of the King of Ashanti in Kumasi
• Johannes Jacobus Cornelis Huydecoper, member of the Dutch government and later Kaufman at Ter Meulen in Elmina

literature

• L. Kooymans, Vriendschap en de kunst van het overleven in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw . (1997)

Web links

Commons : Huydecoper van Maarsseveen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Nederlands Adelsboek (1949) (Dutch; PDF; 8.8 MB)
• Genealogical Database Huydecoper (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Opmerkingen over de geslachten treatment in Nederland's Adelsboek" (1949), pages 87 and 88 (PDF; 8.8 MB)
2. ↑ The name Huydecoper comes from Jan Jacob's maternal grandmother, Aeght Luytsdr Huydecoper. She married Andries Jansz Bal (1482-ca. 1526). His son Jan Andriesz Bal was Jan Jacob's father.
3. ↑ Landhaus Cromwijck (nl) ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Map: Een Gedeelte van de Heerlyckheyt van Maersseveen (nl) ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Slot Zeist (nl)
6. ↑ year Mr. Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen in DBNL (nl)
7. ↑ De Nederlandse begraafplaats in Elmina . (Dutch)