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Bicker (also: Bicker van Swieten) is a very old Dutch patrician family (since 1390).The family has played an important role during the Dutch Golden Age.They led the Dutch States Party and were at the centre of Amsterdam oligarchy from the beginning of the 17th century until the early 1650s, [1] influencing the government of Holland and the Republic of the United Netherlands. [2]
De Witt (also: De Wit, De Witte and De With) is the name of an old Dutch patrician and regenten family. Originally from Dordrecht, the genealogy of the family begins with Jan de Witte, a patrician who lived around 1295. [1] [2] The family have played an important role during the Dutch Golden Age.
Cornelis de Graeff was the oldest son of Jacob Dircksz de Graeff, burgomaster of Amsterdam and Vrijheer of Zuid-Polsbroek, and his wife Aeltje Boelens Loen, member of the family Boelens Loen, one of the oldest patrician families of Amsterdam and great-great-granddaughter of the important late medieval Amsterdam city regent and burgomaster Andries Boelens.
Andries Bicker (14 September 1586 – 24 June 1652) was a prominent burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam, politician and diplomat in the Dutch Republic.He was a member of the Bicker family, who governed the city of Amsterdam and with it the province of Holland for about half a century.
Jacob Bicker was a son of Gerrit Bicker and Aleyd Andriesdr Boelens Loen. [4] Jacob's oldest brother Andries Bicker ruled the city administration for a long time and was mainly supported and carried by him and their other two brothers Cornelis and Jan Bicker, his uncle Jacob Dircksz de Graeff and his cousin Cornelis de Graeff. [5]
Agneta de Graeff (1603-1656) Jan (or Joan or Jean) Bicker was a son of Gerrit Bicker and Aleyd Andriesdr Boelens Loen.Jan's oldest brother Andries Bicker ruled the city administration for many years and was supported in his (foreign) policy by his brothers Jacob, director in the VOC and Cornelis Bicker, director in the WIC. [1]