Van den Bosch is the name of family belonging to the

Dutch nobility The Dutch nobility is a small elite social class constisting of individuals or families recognized as noble, and with or without a title of nobility in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The existence of nobility was established in the Constitution ...

. Oldest known ancestor of this family is one Arij van den Bosch who lived in Utrecht in 1701. The title of count was created in 1839, when

Johannes van den Bosch Johannes, Count van den Bosch (2 February 1780 – 28 January 1844) was a Dutch officer and politician. He was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1830–1833), commander of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, Minister of Colonies ...

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 ...

, was elevated to the title of Count.

List of Counts

* Johannes Hendrik van den Bosch (1844–1854) * Johannes Hendrik Willem van den Bosch (1854–1902) * Johannes Hendrik Otto van den Bosch (1902–1940) * Johannes Hendrik Otto van den Bosch (1940–1994) * Johannes Hendrik Otto van den Bosch (1994–)

References

* Nederland's Adelsboek 80 (1989), pp. 317-341. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bosch, van den Dutch noble families