Cornelia Toppen

Cornelia Toppen, known as Keet Zwenke, (1730-1800), was a Dutch orangist, and the instigator of the 1784 riots of Rotterdam.

Toppen was in 1755 married to Boatswain Jan Reijnier Zwenke. During the politicall riots between orangists and patriots in Rotterdam in 1784, toppen was the leader of the orangist party, and Jan Jacob Elsevier the leader of the patriot party. She was imprisoned and fined for crime against the order of the state.

References

• http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DVN/lemmata/data/Toppen

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Name	Toppen, Cornelia
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Date of birth	1730
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Date of death	1800
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