Bertrand Philip Sigismund Albrecht, Count of Gronsveld-van Diepenbroick-Impel (19 November 1715,

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– 15 November 1772,

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) was a former Dutch envoy in Berlin to

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. He was the fourth son of Johann Bertram Arnold, Freiherr von Diepenbroick, from 1719 on "von Gronsfeld-Diepenbroick", and Wilhelmine, countess of Wartensleben. In 1750 or 1751, Bertrand married Amöne Sophie Friederike zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg. He was lord of Wijngaarden and Ruigbroek from an unknown date. From 1749, he was a member of the Ridderschap of Holland, drost of

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and president of the

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. In 1749 he oversaw a proposal by stadholder

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of a binding college. The Count of Gronsveld fell in 1758 at the instigation of

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. Bertrand Philip then started the first porcelain factory in the Netherlands in the town of

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in 1759. with Louis Gerverot as a painter. However, the enterprise went bankrupt and its goods and clays were temporarily stored in the Muiderslot and then sold to the minister

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References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070928055103/http://www.herenvanholland.nl/eigenaar.cfm?eigenaarnummer=45
Gemeentemuseum Weesp

Bibliography

*Gabriëls, A.J.C.M. (1990) ''De heren als dienaren en de dienaar als heer. Het stadhouderlijk stelsel in de tweede helft van de achttiende eeuw'', pp. 120–1, 170. 1715 births 1772 deaths 18th-century Dutch diplomats 18th-century Dutch people Ambassadors of the Netherlands Ambassadors to Prussia Counts of the Netherlands People from 's-Hertogenbosch Porcelain Ceramics manufacturers of the Netherlands {{Netherlands-bio-stub