Beelaerts van Blokland is an old

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family.

History

The family came originally from the Dutch town

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. The oldest recorded member is a one Zeger Lycop who lived in the 14th century. His grandson Henric was the first to carry the name Beelaerts. The family belongs to the Dutch

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since 1815 with the honorific of

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Famous members

Gerard Jacob Theodoor Beelaerts van Blokland Gerard Jacob Theodoor Beelaerts van Blokland (12 January 1843 – 14 March 1897) was a Dutch politician known for serving as European envoy for the South African Republic from 1884 to 1897, and as Speaker of the House of Representatives fr ...

(1843-1897), Speaker of the

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and envoy for the

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* Frans Beelaerts van Blokland (1872-1956), Dutch envoy to China, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vice-President of the Council of State *

Pieter Beelaerts van Blokland Pieter Adriaan Cornelis Beelaerts van Blokland (8 December 1932 – 22 September 2021) was a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the First Van Agt ...

(1932-2021), Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Mayor, Queen's Commissioner of the Province of Utrecht

Bibliography

*Nederland's Patriciaat 58 (1972), pp. 15–39. *Nederland's Adelsboek 79 (1988), pp. 289–329.

References and sources

Hoge Raad van Adel

Handboek der Wapenkunde, Rietstap, J.B. (1857)
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