1. Cornelis Bicker van Swieten, heer van Swieten, was an Amsterdam regent of the Dutch Republic during the Golden Age.
12 Facts About Cornelis Bicker
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Cornelis Bicker traded in sugar, was a governor of the Dutch West India Company and director of the Wisselbank.
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Cornelis Bicker was schepen, hoogheemraad of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland and a counsellor of the States of Holland and West Friesland at The Hague.
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Cornelis Bicker was the youngest son of Gerrit Bicker and Aleyd Andriesdr Boelens Loen.
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In 1617 Cornelis Bicker married Aertge Witsen, daughter of merchant and burgomaster Gerrit Jacobsz Witsen.
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Cornelis Bicker was one of the investors in draining the Bijlmer.
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Cornelis Bicker was member even of the "Bickerse league", which included his brothers Andries, Jacob, Jan, and their distant cousins, the brothers Roelof, Jacob and Hendrick Jacobsz Bicker.
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Cornelis Bicker was burgomaster of Amsterdam in 1646,1650 and 1654.
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Cornelis Bicker appears as a captain in a 1638 militia group portrait by Joachim von Sandrart, commissioned by the Kloveniersdoelen to mark the visit of Maria de Medici and now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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The Cornelis Bicker family was one of the oldest patrician families of Amsterdam and belonged to the leading regent-oligarchy.
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Laurens Cornelis Bicker was one of the first to trade on Guinea and seized four Portuguese ships in 1604.
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The Cornelis Bicker brothers had a firm grip on world trade, trading on the East, the West, the North and the Mediterranean.