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Coyet
Coyet is a Dutch-Swedish noble family. Notable members of the family include: *Balthasar Coyett, Dutch-Swedish colonial official *Frederick Coyett Frederick Coyett (), born in Stockholm c. 1615 or 1620, buried in Amsterdam on 17 October 1687, was a Swedish nobleman and the last colonial governor for the Dutch colony of Formosa. He was the first Swede to travel to Japan and China and became ..., Swedish nobleman *Vilhelmina Eleonora Coyet, wife of Rutger Macklean, 2nd Friherre {{surname Coyet family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Coyett
Frederick Coyett (), born in Stockholm c. 1615 or 1620, buried in Amsterdam on 17 October 1687, was a Swedish nobleman and the last colonial governor for the Dutch colony of Formosa. He was the first Swede to travel to Japan and China and became the last governor of Dutch-occupied Taiwan (1656–1662). Name In common with many people of the time, Coyett's name was spelled differently at different times and by different people. Frederick could also be Fredrik or Fredrick, and Coyett was also spelled Coyet, Coignet or Coijet. Early career It is supposed Coyett was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in a family with Dutch/Flemish roots that migrated from Brabant to Sweden in c. 1569. His father, a goldsmith, died in 1634 in Moscow. The prominent Swedish diplomat Peter Julius Coyet was his brother. From 1643 he worked for the Dutch East India Company. Coyett served twice as the VOC Opperhoofd in Japan, serving as the chief officer in Dejima first between 3 November 1647 and 9 December 1648 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coyet - Vapen (Adelskalendern 1913)
Coyet is a Dutch-Swedish noble family. Notable members of the family include: *Balthasar Coyett, Dutch-Swedish colonial official *Frederick Coyett Frederick Coyett (), born in Stockholm c. 1615 or 1620, buried in Amsterdam on 17 October 1687, was a Swedish nobleman and the last colonial governor for the Dutch colony of Formosa. He was the first Swede to travel to Japan and China and became ..., Swedish nobleman *Vilhelmina Eleonora Coyet, wife of Rutger Macklean, 2nd Friherre {{surname Coyet family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balthasar Coyett
Balthasar Coyett (c.1650 Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan) – 19 September 1725, Batavia, Dutch East Indies) was a Dutch-Swedish official in the Dutch East India Company, serving from 1701 to 1706 as the Governor of Ambon. He was the son of Frederick Coyett, the last Governor of Formosa The governor of Formosa ( nl, gouverneur van Formosa; ) was the head of government during the Dutch colonial period in Taiwan, which lasted from 1624 to 1662. Appointed by the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia (modern-day ..., and Susanna Boudaens ( The Hague 1622- Formosa 1656). Balthasar's son Frederik Julius Coyett (1680-1736) was also a colonial official. References 1650s births 1725 deaths 18th-century Dutch colonial governors {{netherlands-bio-stub Balthasar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutger Macklean, 2nd Friherre
Friherre Rutger Maclean I (1688–1748) or Rutger Macklean I was an officer of Charles XII of Sweden who participated in Battle of Holowczyn, Battle of Poltava and Battle of Tobolsk in the Great Northern War. Biography He was the son of David Makeléer, the first governor of Älvsborg County in Sweden. He studied in England. He married Vilhelmina Eleonora Coyet, who was 30 years younger than him, and they had at least four children: *Baron David Macklean *Rutger Macklean II (1742–1816) who was a central figure in land reform in Sweden in the late 18th and early 19th centuries *Eleonora Charlotta Macklean (1744–1777) born on 12 June 1744 in Svaneholm *Gustaf Macklean, when Gustav III of Sweden Gustav III (29 March 1792), also called ''Gustavus III'', was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. Gustav was a vocal opponent of what ... was murdered, Gustaf hid on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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