Cornelis van Quaelberg, also written as van Quaelbergen or van Quaalberg (1623 – 3 February 1687)Daghregister van't Casteel Batavia van het jaar 1687
, Afgelaai op 2 Maart 2007 was the third commander of the

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from 1666 to 1668.

Career

Van Quaelberg began his career in the service of the

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in 1639 when he was appointed as assistant to the

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. He was promoted Junior merchant in 1644, merchant in 1647 and senior merchant in 1650. In this capacity he was appointed head of

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, in 1652. In 1666 he was appointed as Commander of the Cape Colony where he landed at Table Bay on 25 August 1666 and assumed duty two days later. As the Netherlands and England was at war at this time, not much happened during his tenure, except for some additions to the

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. He was dismissed from the service of the VOC in 1668 after lending help to a French fleet which he did not know was an enemy because news of the outbreak of war spread slowly. He then went to

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and succeeded in convincing the authorities of his innocence and was re-employed in 1670. He was promoted to Governor of

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in the Indonesian archipelago during 1677 and became Governor of

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in 1680 until 1684.

Personal

Van Quaelberg was married to Margaretha de Wit, daughter of Jacob de Wit, Governor of Paliacatta. She died in 1655 and in 1672 he married Henriette Chastelein, with whom he had two daughters. He died on 3 February 1687 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quaelberg, Cornelis van Dutch East India Company people from Amsterdam 17th-century Dutch colonial governors Commanders of the Dutch Cape Colony 1623 births 1687 deaths

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