Cornelis Geelvinck (15 November 1621,

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– 16 December 1689, Amsterdam) was important in the city administration of Amsterdam that arose after stadholder

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came to power in 1672, both as administrator, and as mayor in the years 1673, 1675, 1684, 1688 and 1689.

Biography

Cornelis Geelvinck was the grandson of a peas and beans merchant who supplied the

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(VOC) and

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(WIC). Cornelis Geelvinck was the son of Jan Cornelisz. Geelvinck and Aechje (Agatha) de Vlaming of

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. He married a granddaughter of mayor

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Elisabeth Velecker (1622–1658) in 1643, with whom he had six children:

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(1644),

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(1647), Cornelis (1649), Brechje or Brigitta (1651), Coenraad and Dirck (1656). In 1662, he married Margaretha Bicker of Swieten (1619–1697), the heiress of the country house "Akerendam". In 1664, Cornelis Geelvinck bought the

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s of

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and Croonenburg for 33,000 and 25,000 guilder respectively, which brought him earnings and the right to make appointments. In August 1666 the Amsterdam government sent him as "vigilant gentleman" to

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, where an English raid was feared. In November 1672 the States of Holland ordered him to carry away the hay and peat from

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and the surrounding towns, so that they would not fall into the hands of the French army that had occupied

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. In 1684 Geelvinck had to receive stadholder

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in the townhall, but the prince refused to stop his horse and passed the town hall at a gallop. Geelvinck did not support the prince, when he was planning an invasion in 1688 of England.

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and

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switched. In 1690 the recommendations for new burgomasters were not sent directly to the prince, but to the States-General. Geelvinck finally lost credit among his colleagues. After his death Geelvinck was followed into the

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by his sons

(see

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) and

References

* Broersen, E. (1992) Akerendam, een buitenplaats in Beverwijk. * Molhuysen, P.C., P.J. Blok en K.H. Kossman (Red.) (1974) Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch woordenboek, page 546.

External links

Website on the buitenplaats Akerendam
{{DEFAULTSORT:Geelvinck, Cornelis 1621 births 1689 deaths Mayors of Amsterdam

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17th-century Dutch politicians