Maarten, Baron van der Goes van Dirxland (3 January 1751,

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- 10 July 1826, The Hague) was a Dutch politician who served as government minister. He was a moderate within the Patriots faction that came to govern the

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. His son

Louis Napoleon van der Goes van Dirxland Louis Napoleon, Baron van der Goes van Dirxland (28 July 1806 in Loosduinen – 19 March 1885 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Minister may refer to: * Minister (Christianity), a Christ ...

was also active as a minister.

Life

Van der Goes came from a family of ''

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'' in

and his father, Adriaan van der Goes, was the town's mayor. Maarten van der Goes entered the diplomatic service in 1785, in which he was sent to Copenhagen, then Madrid from 1793 to 1796. He was then secretary to the second national assembly of the

and became its foreign minister on 8 October 1798. At the end of July 1803, Van der Goes,

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and

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formed a Batavian deputation sent to

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, where Bonaparte was visiting the French departments in what is now Belgium. Van der Goes remained foreign minister until 19 June 1808. During May 1807, he was also the interim minister for justice and the police. After France's annexation of Holland in 1810, Van der Goes entered the

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's Corps législatif as the representative of the department of

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. He was made Grand Treasurer of the

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on 22 February 1813 and a

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on 27 January 1813. Maarten van der Goes returned to the Netherlands on Napoleon's fall and became a faithful supporter of the new king

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, who ennobled him in 1814 and made him a baron in 1821. Van der Goes entered the

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on 21 September 1815, remaining in it until his death in 1826.

Titles and decorations

* Grand-cross of the

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, 16 February 1807 * Grand-cross and grand-trésorier of the order of the Reunion, 22 February 1812 * Officer of the

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, 5 January 1811 *

Baron de l'Empire As Emperor of the French, Napoleon I created titles of nobility to institute a stable elite in the First French Empire, after the instability resulting from the French Revolution. Like many others, both before and since, Napoleon found that t ...

, 27 January 1813 * knight, 9 December 1814 * Commander of the

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, 1815 * baron, 3 mars 1821

External links

*
His page on parlement.com
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