The Speelman Baronetcy, of the Netherlands, is a title in the
Baronetage of England
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Baronetage of England (1611–1705)
King James I ...
. It was created on 9 September 1686 for the two-year-old Cornelis Speelman, who later became a General in the Dutch Army. At the same time his mother was given the rank of the widow of a baronet. Speelman was the only son of Johan Cornelis Speelman (1659–1686) and a grandson of
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
The governor-general of the Dutch East Indies ( nl, gouverneur-generaal van Nederlands Indië) represented Dutch rule in the Dutch East Indies between 1610 and Dutch recognition of the independence of Indonesia in 1949. Occupied by Japanese fo ...
Cornelis Speelman
Cornelis Janszoon Speelman (2 March 1628 – 11 January 1684) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1681 to 1684.
Cornelis Janszoon Speelman was the son of a Rotterdam merchant. He was born on 2 March 1628. In his 16th year, he left ...
(1628–1684). Johan died before the
letters patent
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intended to create him a baronet had passed the Great Seal. The sixth Baronet was
Burgemeester
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of the
city
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of Harlingen in the Netherlands.
In 1817, Sir Cornelis Speelman, the 3rd Baronet, was raised into the
Dutch nobility
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The existence of nobility was established in the Constitution ...
by King
William I of the Netherlands
William I (Willem Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was a Prince of Orange, the King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
He was the son of the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, who we ...
. Since then all his descendants belong to the ''untitled nobility'' with the Dutch honorific title
Jonkheer
(female equivalent: ; french: Écuyer; en, Squire) is an honorific in the Low Countries denoting the lowest rank within the nobility. In the Netherlands, this in general concerns a prefix used by the untitled nobility. In Belgium, this is the ...
, with inheritance in male line. This noble family became extinct with the 8th and last baronet in 2005.
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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Speelman Speelman or Speelmans is a Dutch occupational surname. A ''speelman'' now exclusively means a (historical) musician, but in the past was used for a performing artist with other skills.1686 establishments in England