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	Cornelis de Witt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Statue of Johan and Cornelis de Witt in Dordrecht
		Cornelis or Cornelius de Witt (June 15, 1623, Dordrecht - August 20, 1672, The Hague) was a Dutch statesman.
		Brother of Johan de Witt, Cornelis was born at in Dordrecht.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornelis_de_Witt (348 words)

	Johan de Witt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johan de Witt (September 24, 1625, Dordrecht–August 20, 1672, The Hague) was a significant Dutch political figure.
		De Witt created a strong navy, appointing one of his political cronies, Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, as supreme commander of the confederate fleet.
		De Witt showed - by using probability mathematics - that for the same amount of money a bond of 4% would result in the same profit as a Life Annuity of 6% (1 in 17).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johan_de_Witt (858 words)

	Holland and Republicans
		The family de Witt were the first liberal republicans of Holland and became the leaders of the opposition against the House of Orange in the States of Holland and the States General.
		Cornelis was bailiff (baljuw) of Beierland, dike count (dijkgraaf) of Mijnsherenland and ruwaard of the island of Putten.
		De Witt was a member of one of the old burgher-regent families of his native town of Dordrecht (Dort).
	www.geerts.com /holland/holland-repiblicans.htm (3693 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Witt, Jan de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Like his father, Jacob de Witt, burgomaster of Dort, he became a leading opponent of the house of Orange and played a vital role in the three successive Dutch Wars.
		However, when he visited his brother, Cornelius de Witt, in prison, a mob gathered outside, fought its way into the prison, and hacked the two brothers to pieces, hanging their scattered limbs on lamp posts.
		De Witt was one of the greatest of Dutch statesmen and patriots, a patron of the sciences, and a close friend of Spinoza.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Witt-J1an.asp (446 words)

	Witt, Cornelis de - Rijksmuseum
		Cornelis de Witt was a prominent politician during the Stadholderless Period
		Stadholderless Period (1650-1672)A series of bitter conflicts with Stadholder William II led the province of Holland to oppose the appointment of a successor after the latter's death in 1650.
		Despite the lack of evidence and the absence of a confession under torture, Cornelis de Witt was condemned to exile for life.
	www.rijksmuseum.nl /aria/aria_encyclopedia/00047625?lang=en (217 words)

	DeWitts of Dordrecht
		Johan de Witt (died 27th May 1751, Brussels) left no male heirs, for his only son was not married when he died in 1783.
		Cornelis de Witt, heer (viscount) van Jaarsvelt, the youngest grandson of the Raadspensionaris had two married sons.
		The coat of arms of the de Witt family (Dordrecht) was a sinopel field with a hare, chased by a whippet and with a hound in the bottom of the shield.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Forest/1891/DEWITTDordrecht.htm (525 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: De Witt
		De Witt continued his studies at home, passing much time in the family of his uncle, General James Clinton, of the revolutionary army, and the father of De Witt Clinton, afterwards governor of New York, with whom he was a great favorite.
		De Witt was officially directed to cause surveys to be made of all streams and rivers between the Hudson and Lake Erie, and for several years he was associated as one of the board of canal commissioners.
		General De Witt's second wife was a sister of Colonel Richard Varick, and with excellent reason the descendants are proud of the relationship.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/dewitt.html (3464 words)

	Chapter XVI - THE SECOND ENGLISH WAR. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. THE FRENCH INVASION \| Learn Dutch
		De Ruyter was in supreme command and led the van, Cornelis Evertsen the centre, Cornelis Tromp the rear.
		De Witt himself doubtless knew that the erection of this paper barrier against the inherited influence of one bearing the honoured title of Prince of Orange was of little real value.
		De Witt still placed his hopes in the anti-French views of the English Parliament; but in August, 1671, it was dissolved by the king and was not summoned to meet again for a year and a half.
	www.learn-dutch.info /h16-alliance-french-invasion (5779 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Bogardus
		Cornelis (1) Bogardus married, in 1664, Helena Teller, born in 1645, daughter of William and Margaret (Donchesen) Teller.
		She was a daughter of Tjerck Classen, son of Nicholas and Taatje De Witt, whose home in the Netherlands was in Grootholdt, district of Zunderland, in the southern part of East Friesland.
		Cornelis (2) Bogardus was an owner of a vessel which he employed in the carrying trade along the Hudson river from New York to Albany, and possibly to more distant points along the coast.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/bogardus-1.html (3936 words)

	CMH5
		De Witt began with retrenching expenditure, wherever it could be done with safety, by a careful examination into all superfluous and wasteful outgoings, and a better and more vigilant administration of the public revenues.
		De Witt, however, despite the efforts of the Princess Royal, steadily declined to allow the young Prince to be appointed to the civil and military posts held by his ancestors.
		De Witt knew that war would mean the transfer of authority from his hands to those of the Prince, and he still hoped by conciliation to avert it.
	www.uni-mannheim.de /mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh507.html (14270 words)

	Large Branches & Small Twigs
		Cornelis De Witt was baptized on 27 Jan 1745 in Ulster County, New York.
		Lucas De Witt was born in 1674 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York.
		Maratje De Witt was born in 1680 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~decann/genealogy/master/b271.htm (1400 words)

	goDutch.com :: Zeeland hometown plans extensive De Ruyter commemorations in 2007
		De Ruyter, whose early childhood ‘wheel-turning job’ at a local rope-maker through a popular ditty is imbedded in the minds of most Dutchmen, as a cabin boy went to sea at the tender age of eleven.
		In 1641, De Ruyter became captain of a warship and was appointed Rear Admiral of a fleet commanded by Arnout Gysels.
		De Ruyter sailed to England in June 1667, in a scheme to destroy the British Navy in its homeport of Chatham.
	www.godutch.com /windmill/newsItem.asp?id=860 (1705 words)

	bestevaer: The humbling of the foe. Results
		Portraits of de Ruyter where also put up in the five admiralties of the Netherlands, but it was Cornelis de Witt who would take the crown when it came to self-glorification.
		As steward of the city of Dordrecht he commissioned the painting of a large allegorie depicting Cornelis de Witt as victor on the crusade down the medway, with angels pouring out the spoils of victory from golden horns, while a backdrop offers a glimpse of the Netherlandic fleet burning several English ships.
		Johan de Witt wrote how war should not be an instrument of politics or worse still (as was common in those days) politics an instrument for war.
	bestevaer.livejournal.com /2914.html (703 words)

	Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Tjerck Claessen De Witt & Barbara Andriessen
		Tjatte De Witt was baptized in Albany, New York, in 1659, and died in 1724.
		Geertruy De Witt [#975]: She was baptized in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, on October 15, 1668, and died in Kingston in 1718.
		Lucas De Witt was baptized in Kingston in 1674, and died in 1703.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~walt/gen/htmfile/1950.htm (591 words)

	De Witt Cornelis - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		De Witt, Cornelis (1623-1672), Dutch naval officer, prominent in the struggle to make the Dutch States-General, or parliament, supreme over the...
		Notable landmarks in The Hague include the Binnenhof (inner court) and Buitenhof (outer court), a group of government buildings dating in part from...
		De Witt, Jan (1625-1672), Dutch statesman, brother of Cornelis De Witt, born in Dordrecht and educated at the University of Leiden.
	au.encarta.msn.com /De_Witt_Cornelis.html (107 words)

	Hippolyte Taine
		In 1847, as vétéran de rhétorique, he carried off six first prizes in the general competition, the prize of honor, and three accessits; he won all the first school prizes, the three science prizes, as well as two prizes for dissertation.
		It was from that moment that Taine's influence began to be felt; he was in constant intercourse with Renan, Sainte-Beuve, Sherer, Théophile Gautier, Gustave Flaubert, Saint-Victor and the Goncourts, and gave up a little of his time to his friends and to the calls of society.
		In 1865 appeared La Philosophie de l'Art, in 1867 L'Idéal dans l'Art, followed by essays on the philosophy of art in the Netherlands (1868), in Greece (1869), all of which short works were republished later (in 1880) as a work on the philosophy of art.
	www.nndb.com /people/388/000098094 (3672 words)

	Chapter XVII - WAR WITH FRANCE AND ENGLAND \| Learn Dutch
		In these circumstances De Witt persuaded the States-General and the Estates of Holland to consent to the sending of two special embassies to Louis, who was now at Doesburg, and to London, to sue for peace.
		In the town of Dordrecht where the De Witt influence had been so long supreme his portrait in the Town-hall was torn to pieces by the mob and the head hung on a gallows.
		Under the plea that the number of those implicated in the deed was so large that it was impossible to punish them and thus stir up party passions at a time when the whole energies of the nation were needed for the war, he took no steps to bring the offenders to justice.
	www.learn-dutch.info /h17-war-france-england (2424 words)

	History of the Netherlands
		The wealth accumulated from all this trade led to the 17th century being called the golden age (de gouden eeuw) of the Netherlands.
		While the Dutch were also troubled by French invasions in the Spanish Netherlands[?] - present-day Belgium - the English and Dutch signed a peace treaty: the 1667 Peace of Breda[?], after Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter destroyed a large part of the English fleet on the Thames.
		Later, two important politicians during the stadtholderless era, Johan[?] and Cornelis de Witt[?] were brutally murdered in The Hague.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ne/Netherlands___history.html (2303 words)

	Washington and the French. III. IV. Jusserand, Jean Jules. 1916. With Americans of Past and Present Days
		In his next letters he insists and gloats over his own matchless deeds: “The whole of America has risen to acknowledge in me the minister of the French Republic.… I live in the midst of perpetual feasts; I receive addresses from all parts of the continent.
		Châteaubriand, Lamartine, Guizot, Cornelis de Witt, Laboulaye, Joseph Fabre, many other French thinkers and writers, vied with each other in their praise and admiration throughout the century.
		Mémoires du [Chevalier de Pontgibaud] Comte de Moré, 1827, pp.
	www.bartleby.com /238/34.html (2796 words)

	William III of England - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		So as to prevent the restoration of the influence of the House of Orange, de Witt procured the issuance of the Eternal Edict (or Perpetual Edict), which declared that the Captain-General or Admiral-General of the Netherlands could not serve as Stadtholder in any province.
		De Witt failed to secure peace with France, and was overthrown.
		(Afterwards, he and his brother, Cornelis de Witt, were brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.) Today, most historians assume that William was involved in the murder.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/William_III_of_Orange (3819 words)

	The Black Tulip part 1, written by Alexandre Dumas 1850, The story of Johan and Cornelis de Witt and Dordrecht
		The brothers De Witt humoured Louis XIV., whose moral influence was felt by the whole of Europe, and the pressure of whose material power Holland had been made to feel in that marvellous campaign on the Rhine, which, in the space of three months, had laid the power of the United Provinces prostrate.
		In the meanwhile, John de Witt, whom we left climbing the stairs, after the conversation with the jailer Gryphus and his daughter Rosa, had reached the door of the cell, where on a mattress his brother Cornelius was resting, after having undergone the preparatory degrees of the torture.
		In the same degree as Cornelius de Witt had excited the hatred of the people by sowing those evil seeds which are called political passions, Van Baerle had gained the affections of his fellow citizens by completely shunning the pursuit of politics, absorbed as he was in the peaceful pursuit of cultivating tulips.
	www.geerts.com /dordrecht/black-tulip1.htm (15841 words)

	Michiel de Ruyter
		In the evening a Council of War was held on board “De Zeven Provinciën”, and the objectives of the States-General, detailing the objectives of the operation, which had been revealed to the fleet commanders on 27 May, were now made known to the lesser officers.
		In case any of these scattered detachments should make an untimely appearance, it was agreed at the Council of War, that de Ruyter should remain with the main body of the fleet at the entrance to the King’s Channel, while Vice-Admiral Schram with a small force should keep watch on the Straits of Dover.
		At dawn on 9 June van Ghent, accompanied by Cornelis de Witt, and helped by a favourable wind and tide, sailed towards the mouth of the Thames, in the “Agatha”, followed by other ships in his squadron.
	www.deruyter.org /CHATHAM_Friday_7th-Sunday_9th.html (950 words)

	Dordrecht Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Johan de Witt, who studied in University of Leiden and excelled in math and law brought prosperity and financial success on the provinces of Holland and Friesland.
		His brother, Cornelis, besides being the burgomeister of Dordrecht, became famous accompanying general de Ruyter in his battles against the English.
		When Cornelis bacame ill he returned to his hometown to find out that he is accused of disloyalty and soon was brought to the famous Prison Gate in The Hague.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Netherlands/Provincie_Zuid_Holland/Dordrecht-461928/Things_To_Do-Dordrecht-R-2.html (1046 words)

	De Witt Jan - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		De Witt Jan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Heem, Jan de (1606-1683 or 1684), Dutch painter of still lifes, especially of fruit and flowers.
		Heem, Jan de: picture of painting by Jan de Heem
	ca.encarta.msn.com /De_Witt_Jan.html (148 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		Nearby to the N is the city's main square and the famous Mauritshuis Royal Art Gallery, known for its collection of 15th- to 17th-century Dutch paintings.
		Other historic landmarks include the 15th-century Groote Kerk (Great Church); the Stadhuis (City Hall, 1565); and the Gevangenpoort (Prison Gate), now a museum, where the Dutch statesmen Jan De Witt and Cornelis De Witt were murdered in 1672.
		Among the modern buildings of interest in the city are the Peace Palace (1913), endowed by the American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1903 and now the home of the International Court of Justice; the modern Municipal Building; and the Netherlands Congress Center (1969).
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..ha003900.a (612 words)

	Prison Gate, The Hague
		Here the brothers Cornelis and Johan de Witt, accused of an attempt on the life of Prince William III, were murdered in 1672.
		In the square to the north is a monument to Jan de Witt.
		The old prison and torture chambers have been open to the public as a museum since the beginning of the 20th century, with a collection of pictures, prints and relics illustrating the administration of justice in the 17th century and the imprisonment of Cornelis de Witt.
	www.planetware.com /the-hague/prison-gate-nl-zh-gev.htm (172 words)

	Biography of de Witt, Johan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Further popular pressure made the appointment of William of Orange as Stadtholder inevitable, though de Witt opposed it as long as possible, not realizing that both England and France would welome the prince's removal from the scene.
		When William was finally appointed stadtholder in 1672 de Witt resigned and William had the word ‘honorable’ erased from the resolution of the States on his resignation, though it was de Witt's policy of creating a strong navy and building up the country's finance that had made William's success in the war possible.
		Shortly afterwards de Witt and his brother Cornelis were lynched in The Hague.
	www.allbiographies.com /biography-JohandeWitt-42266.html (356 words)

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