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List Of Dutch Governors Of Ceylon
The following is a list of governors of Dutch Ceylon. The Dutch arrived on the island of Ceylon on 2 May 1639. Parts of the island were incorporated as a colony administrated by the Dutch East India Company on 12 May 1656. The first governor, Willem Jacobszoon Coster, was appointed on 13 March 1640. List of governors See also * List of Governors of Portuguese Ceylon The Portuguese arrived in the Kingdom of Kotte in 1505. By 1594 they had appointed a captain-general to control the Portuguese occupied territory called Portuguese Ceylon on the island of modern-day Sri Lanka. In that time, there were numerous ca ... (1594–1698) Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dutch Ceylon 17th-century establishments in Sri Lanka 18th-century disestablishments in Sri Lanka 1640 establishments in Asia 1794 disestablishments in Asia Dutch Empire-related lists Lists of Dutch colonial governors and administrators Lists of governors Lists of office-holders in Sri Lanka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Ceylon
Dutch Ceylon ( Sinhala: Tamil: ) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company. Although the Dutch managed to capture most of the coastal areas in Sri Lanka, they were never able to control the Kandyan Kingdom located in the interior of the island. Dutch Ceylon existed from 1640 until 1796. In the early 17th century, Sri Lanka was partly ruled by the Portuguese and Sri Lankan kingdoms, who were constantly battling each other. Although the Portuguese were not winning the war, their rule was rather burdensome to the people of those areas controlled by them. While the Portuguese were engaged in a long war of independence from Spanish rule, the Sinhalese king (the king of Kandy) invited the Dutch to help defeat the Portuguese. The Dutch interest in Ceylon was to have a united battle front against the Iberians at that time. History Background The Portuguese The Dutch were invited by the Sinhalese to help fight the Portuguese. They signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulus De Roo
Paulus de Roo ( – 9 August 1695) was a Governor of Dutch Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon. De Roo was appointed acting governor on 29 January 1695, and remained at his post until 9 August. Footnotes {{DEFAULTSORT:Roo, Paulus de 1658 births 1695 deaths 17th-century Dutch colonial governors Governors of Dutch Ceylon Dutch East India Company people People from Surat Dutch India Dutch expatriates in India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Macaré
Jan Macaré (also ''Macare, Maccare'') (5 July 1686, Middelburg – 8 January 1742, Batavia, Dutch East Indies) was an acting Dutch Governor of Ceylon during an interregnum from 7 June 1736 until 23 July 1736. Macaré was the fifth son of Susanne Willeboorts (1657–1703) and Pieter Pietersz Macaré (1646–1712), merchant in Middelburg. In 1700, his father sold his business in Middelburg to join the Dutch East India Company and sailed with his wife and four youngest children, including Jan, on the ship ''Oostersteyn'' from January to September 1702 to Batavia. In January 1703 they sailed to Ceylon, where Pieter had been appointed as a fiscal inspector. Jan's mother died on the way to Ceylon. Jan joined the VOC early on, assisting his father in his work. He moved to Batavia in 1715, where he was schepen in the 1720s. In 1732 he was appointed commander of Galle, so that he returned to Ceylon in October of that year. He disliked the corrupt environment and requested to be return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diederik Van Domburg
Diederik van Domburg (15 October 1685, Utrecht – 7 June 1736, Colombo) was the 23rd Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon Dutch Ceylon ( Sinhala: Tamil: ) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company. Although the Dutch managed to capture most of the coastal areas in Sri Lanka, they were never able to control the Kandyan .... He was appointed on 27 January 1734 and was Governor until 7 June 1736. He was succeeded by acting Governor Jan Maccare. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Domburg, Diederik van 1685 births 1736 deaths 18th-century Dutch people Dutch expatriates in Sri Lanka Governors of Dutch Ceylon People from Utrecht (city) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Christiaan Pielat
Jacques Christian or Jacob Christiaan Pielat (sometimes ''Pielaat'') (27 August 1692, Rotterdam – c. 3 August 1740, Loosduinen) was the 22nd Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch colonial time from 2 December 1732 until 27 January 1734. Pielat was the sixth child of Phinéas Pielat (1645–1700), a Protestant minister originally from the Principality of Orange, and his second wife Jeanne de Vernatti.H. A. M. Roelants"Jacques Christian Pielat" in ''Gulden boek van Schiedam, H.C.A. Campagne en Zoon'', Amsterdam, 1900, p. 155. Pielat joined the Dutch East India Company and worked his way up to ''opperkoopman'' (upper-merchant) in the Dutch Indies. From at least 1720 he was captain and charged with the military accompaniment of goods from Patna to the Dutch factory in Hugly in Dutch Bengal. After a period of being ''secunde'' ("vice-governor") in Ternate, he succeeded Stephanus Versluys as governor of Amboina from 1728–29 to 1731. Subsequently, he was appointed Extraordinary Counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gualterus Woutersz
Gualterus "Wouter" Woutersz (ca. 1670, Middelburg – 5 February 1759, Batavia, Dutch East Indies) was commander of Jaffna for the Dutch East India Company and interim Governor of Dutch Ceylon between the departure of Stephanus Versluys on 25 August 1732 and the arrival of Jacob Christiaan Pielat on 2 December 1732. Woutersz was the son of Ursula Wees and Gualterus Woutersz Senior, who in 1681 was schepen A schepen (Dutch; . ') or échevin (French) or Schöffe (German) is a municipal officer in Belgium and formerly the Netherlands. It has been replaced by the ' in the Netherlands (a municipal executive). In modern Belgium, the ''schepen'' or ''éch ... of Middelburg. Gualterus Junior arrived in Ceylon in 1689 on board the ship ''Schoondijk''. He married Hester Otley. The couple had five children between 1705 and 1719.F. H. de VosGenealogy of the Woutersz of Ceylon References {{DEFAULTSORT:Woutersz, Gualterus 1670s births 1759 deaths 18th-century Dutch people Dutc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanus Versluys
Stephanus Versluijs or Versluys (20 August 1694, in Middelburg – 27 February 1736, in Batavia, Dutch East Indies) was the 21st Governor of Dutch Ceylon. Versluijs was the son of Adriana de Muncq and Cornelis Versluijs, mayor of Middelburg and the director of the Dutch East India company's Zeeland Chamber. At the age of 19 he started to serve the company, arriving in the East Indies on the ship ''De herstelde Leeuw'' in 1713. He started as under-merchant in Paliacatte and moved in 1717 to Batavia, where by 1722 he had become upper-merchant. In June 1724 he was appointed Governor of Amboina in Ternate, in 1727 Extraordinary Council of the East Indies in Batavia, and in 1729 as Governor of Ceylon in Colombo to replace Pieter Vuyst, who had been summoned to Batavia for his tyrannical rule (Vuyst was executed in 1732 for his cruelties). In 1732 Versluys was also dismissed as governor, for financial malpractice, and had to appear before the Council of Justice in Batavia. He was impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrus Vuyst
Petrus Vuyst or Vuijst (1691, Alkmaar, Netherlands – 19 May 1732, Batavia) was the 20th Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch colonial period. Vuyst was born in Alkmaar as the son of Hendrik Vuyst of Alkmaar (1656–1705) and Maria de Nijs. He returned to the Netherlands for schooling, where he signed in as a student in Leiden in 1711.Historische-Genealogische-Heraldieke aantekeningen over Ceylon in ''De Wapenheraut'', D. G. van Epen, editor, Volume 1, The Hague, 1897, pp. 53-4 In , he married the local Barbara Wilhelmina Gerlings (1692–1746) in 1714. The couple lived in Leiden where they had one surviving daughter, before leaving for the East Indies on 16 May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Paul Schaghen
Joan Paul Schaghen (variable spellings include Jan/Johan(nes), Paulus, and Schagen) (2 November 1689 in Malacca – c. 10 December 1746 in Amsterdam) was an acting Governor of Ceylon in 1725 and 1726 and director-general of the council of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia from 1737 to 1741. Schagen was the son of Sara Alleta van Genegen and Nicolaas Schaghen, Governor of Malacca 1684–1685, Governor of Dutch Bengal (1685–1688), and finally Governor of Amboina from 1691 till his death in 1696. Joan Paul went to study in the Netherlands, where, in 1716 in Velp, he married Cornelia Theodora van Eck. Cornelia and he had a daughter Magdalena Clara Schaghen. After the death of Cornelia, Joan Paul married Susanna Cornelia Breving in July 1723 in Batavia. After her death he married in 1735 Elisabeth Blanckert, the widow of Josua van Arrewijne. She died on the trip back to the Netherlands and was buried (and saluted) in Cape of Good Hope, in April 1742. In Amsterdam he finall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Hertenberg
Johannes Hertenberg (15 April 1668 in Oudkarspel – 19 October 1725 in Colombo) was the 17th commander of Dutch Malabar from 1716 to 1723 and the 19th Dutch Governor of Ceylon from 1723 until his death. In 1687, Hertenberg sailed to the Dutch East Indies in the ship ''De Groote Vischerij'' as Third Surgeon. He worked his way up to upper-merchant in Makassar by 1712. Between June and September 1712 he was asked to be interim Governor of Makassar, following the death of Gerrit van Toll and until the arrival of his successor Joannes Sipman. He returned to Batavia in August 1714 as upper-merchant. In November of that year he was sent to Ceylon to become commander of Galle. In September 1716 he became commander of Malabar, in which position he generally had a good relationship with the Zamorin of Calicut. He was appointed Governor of Ceylon at the death of Isaak Augustyn Rumpf in June 1723. Jacob de Jong became commander of Malabar and Hertenberg took office in Colombo on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Moll
Arnold Moll (5 May 1675 – 10 February 1729) was the Dutch commander of Jaffanapatnam from 1723 to 1725 and acting Governor of Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ... from 21 June 1723 to 12 January 1724. He previously had been merchant on Ambon and since 1707 Commander of Galle. He was also a member of the Council of the Dutch East Indies. He married the baroness Christina van Reede (1690–1731) with whom he had three daughters. ReferencesDe Wapenheraut 187, p. 159 {{DEFAULTSORT:Moll, Arnold 1675 births 1729 deaths 18th-century Dutch people Dutch expatriates in Sri Lanka Governors of Dutch Ceylon People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaak Augustijn Rumpf
Isaak Augustijn Rumpf (1673–1723) was a governor of Dutch Ceylon. He was appointed on 5 December 1716 and was Governor until 11 June 1723, when he died in office. Family life Rumpf (sometimes spelled ''Rumph'') was the son of the diplomat Christiaan Constantijn Rumpf (1633, The Hague – 1706, Stockholm) and Elisabeth Pierrat de Longueville (1646–1675). He obtained a Doctor of Laws degree at Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of L ... and left for the Indies early in 1707. En route, on 26 June 1707 in Cape Townbr>!--tough one to find;-)--> he married Gijsberta Joanna Blesius (born 1686, Cape Town). Isaak and Gijsberta had a daughter Susanna. Gijsberta remarried in 1726 as widow Rumpf with Mr. Everhard Kraayvanger of Makassar, Macassar, Advocate Fiscaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
