Valckenier (patrician family)

Valckenier (also Val (c) kenier (s), Ranst Valckenier and Valckenier von Geusau ) is the name of a former Amsterdam patrician family .

history

See also: Regent of Amsterdam

Around 1580 Cornelis Jansz Valckenier wrote about the origins of his family, that his great-grandfather NN Geelrok, ​​after his escape from Brabant, carried out the profession of falconer (hence the name Valckenier ) and chief hunter for the Duke of Geldern . His son Jelis also became a falconer with the duke. His son, Cornelis Jansz Valckenier's father, Jan Gillisz Valckenier (also Jan Jelisz Valckenier) established himself as a merchant in Amsterdam. According to Hans Bontemantel , he was a skipper between Amsterdam and Leiden , and the father of the Adriaan brothers, Wouter , Jan and Jacob Valckenier.

During the Dutch Golden Age, members of the Valckeniers held various important offices in the government of Amsterdam and in Holland . Some like Gillis Valckenier were prinsgezind (that is, on the side of the Orange ), still others were staatsgezind (republicans).

family members

• NN Geelrokk, great falconer and chief hunter of the Duke of Geldern
  • Jelis Valckenier, Falckner with the Duke of Geldern
    • Jan Gillisz Valckenier (1522–1592), merchant and Dutch envoy to Denmark and Holstein
      • Cornelis Jansz Valckenier (1550–1613), councilor of the Admiralty of Amsterdam and captain of the civil guard
        • Adriaan Valckenier (1586–1654)
        • Wouter Valckenier (1589–1650), Mayor of Amsterdam
          • Gillis Valckenier (1623–1680), Mayor and Regent of Amsterdam
            • Wouter Valckenier (1650–1707), married Maria van Baerle (?) And then with Anna Maria, a daughter of Louis Trip .
            • Pieter Ranst Valckenier (1661–1704) was head or director ( Bewindhebber ) of the Dutch West India Company and, as Schepen, member of the government of Amsterdam.
              • Pieter Valkenier (1691–1738) was Lord of Asten and Ommel and Schepen of Amsterdam. He was married to Bregje van Ghesel; his mother-in-law was Harmina van de Poll .
              • Adriaan Valckenier (1695–1751), Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
                • Adriaan Isaac Valckenier (1731–1784), Schepen von Amsterdam, after an attempted murder on his wife he was declared ill and imprisoned in his house in Hillegom in 1768 ; his daughter Trouwde marries Jan van de Poll
                  • Adriaan Danker Valckenier, unmarried, with him the family of the (Amsterdam) Valckenier died out.
            • Gillis Valckenier (* 1666), councilor at the Admiralty of Amsterdam
          • Sybrant Valckenier (1634-1665), Schepen of Amsterdam; Half-brother of Gillis Valckenier ; appeared in 1648 together with Jacob de Graeff , Gerbrand Pancras and Pieter Schaep as one of the cornerstones of the Stadthaus op de Dam . Valckenier was married to Agatha Munter .
        • Jan Valckenier (1596-1654)
        • Jacob Valckenier (1602–1673), husband of Hillegonde Hasselaer
          • Cornelis Valckenier (1640–1700), Mayor of Amsterdam, Director of the Suriname Society
            • Jacob Valckenier ( Hanoi , 1673–1740), Amsterdam regent, deputy in the Dutch States General .
              • Wouter Valckenier (1705–1784), was married to Elisabeth Hooft, a sister of Hendrik Hooft , and owned the country estate of Valck and Heining.
          • Jacob Valckenier (1654–1682), married Anna Valckenier
          • Wouter Jacobsz Valckenier (1659-1710), was a legal councilor and Raad van Indië in Batavia + from 1702 Bewindhebber of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam
            • Jan or Johannes Valckenier, married to Maria Valckenier
              • Wouter Valckenier (* 1716) lived in Elburg
              • Gillis Valckenier (* 1717), died unmarried

Pieter Valckenier (Emmerich, 1638? –1712?), Diplomat in Frankfurt, Regensburg and in Switzerland, did not belong to the Amsterdam branch of the Valckeniers.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ yrs. Gillis von Geusau (1878-1931) got the Valckenier name of his mother Jetske von Geusau-Valckenier (1850-1934) by royal resolution.
2. ^ Jacobus Kok and Jan Fokke: Vaderlandsch woordenboek, Volumes 29-30, page 75
3. ^ Families from the Netherlands
4. ↑ Hans Bontemantel: De regeeringe van Amsterdam, soo in 't civiel as crimineel en militaire (1653–1672) (ed. GW Kernkamp)
5. ↑ Kastel in Utrecht: Valk en Heining

Web links

• Inventory van het archief van Adriaan Valckenier (Genealogy van het geslacht Valckenier) (PDF; 394 kB)