Cornelis van Nijenrode

Cornelis van Nijenrode
Portrait of Cornelia, daughter of Cornelis van Nijenrode, with her husband Pieter Cnoll and family in Batavia in 1665, by Jacob Coeman.

Cornelis van Nijenro(o)de, also Cornelis van Nieuwroode (b. Naarden - d. Dejima, January 1633) was Governor of the VOC-trading post in Hirado, Japan from 1623 to 1633.

Cornelis arrived in Asia in 1607. He filled several posts at Dutch East India Company-trading post in Siam. In 1622 he took part in an expedition, sent from Formosa, to the coast of China.

In Japan Cornelis had a daughter, Cornelia, with a local Japanese woman named Surishia.

Cornelis died in 1633, just before he was about to leave for Batavia.



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