Cornelis HrR Ridder de Graeff

Cornelis de Graeff, also Andriesz Cornelis de Graeff (Den Haag, May 19, 1650 – October 16, 1678) was a Dutch nobleman and chieflandholder of the Zijpe and Haze Polder.^[1]

He was a member of the family De Graeff and was the only son of Andries de Graeff and Elisabeth Bicker van Swieten.^[2] Johan de Witt was a cousin of him. Cornelis de Graeff grew up in Den Haag, while his father was advisor of finances and finance minister of Holland (Meester ordinaris van de Rekenkamer van Holland).^[2] After he studied law at the University of Leiden he married in 1675 to Agneta Deutz (1657–1678).^[2] The married couple inhabited the city palace Huis van der Graeff, in the middle of the Gouden Bocht, at what is now Herengracht 446.^[3] In 1677 he was styled as a Free Imperial Knight of the Holy Roman Empire. Cornelis and his father Andries said, that they descent from the Austrian noble family House of Graben von Stein,^[4] which was an apparent (or illegitimate) branch of the House of Meinhardin.^[5][6] That diplome dadet from 19 July 1677.^[2] Cornelis tomb chapel is to be found of at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.

Cornelis de Graeff was painted by famous artists like Gerard ter Borch^[7] and Jürgen Ovens.

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  Portrait of Cornelis de Graeff, painted by Gerard Terborch (1673)
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  Coat of arms Cornelis de Graeff
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  De Graeffs Palais Huis van der Graeff at the Gouden Bocht (Herengracht 446)

Notes

1. ^ Oude kerk te Amsterdam, Graven op Internet. Chieflandholder of the Zijpe: search about De Graeff and see under Cornelis Andriesz de Graeff
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Biographie about his father Andries de Graeff at the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biographisch Woordenboek, part II
3. ^ Dudok van Heel, S.A.C. (1969) Het Maecenaat [Andries] de Graeff en Rembrandt, uit Genootschap Amsterlodamum, p.150. In: Maandblad Genootschap Amstelodamum.
4. ^ Family De Graeff at the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biographisch Woordenboek, part II. About his knightship in the Holy Roman Empire
5. ^ Rudolf Granichstaedten-Czerva (1948): "Brixen - Reichsfürstentum und Hofstaat".
6. ^ Google book search: Das Land Tirol: mit einem Anhange: Vorarlberg: ein Handbuch für Reisende. Von Beda Weber
7. ^ Cornelis de Graeff painted by Gerard ter Borch

External link and Commons

• Joost van den Vondels poem Op de kinders van Andries de Graeff en Elisabeth Bicker van Swieten. p 95

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Name	Graeff, Cornelis De
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Date of birth	May 19, 1650
Place of birth	Den Haag, Netherlands
Date of death	October 16, 1678
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