Pieter de Graeff van Polsbroek te Ilpendam (* Aug 15, 1638 in Amsterdam - † Jun 3, 1707), was a member of the De Graeff-family from the Dutch Golden Age. He was an Amsterdam Regent during the late 1660s and the early 1670s, and held the title as a Lord of the semi-sovereign Fief of Zuid-Polsbroek and a Lord of the Free and high Fief Ilpendam and Purmerland.
Pieter was the son of Cornelis de Graeff and Catharina Hooft, and the older brother of Jac...
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Pieter de Graeff van Polsbroek te Ilpendam (* Aug 15, 1638 in Amsterdam - † Jun 3, 1707), was a member of the De Graeff-family from the Dutch Golden Age. He was an Amsterdam Regent during the late 1660s and the early 1670s, and held the title as a Lord of the semi-sovereign Fief of Zuid-Polsbroek and a Lord of the Free and high Fief Ilpendam and Purmerland.
Pieter was the son of Cornelis de Graeff and Catharina Hooft, and the older brother of Jacob de Graeff.
In 1655 Pieter went together with Joan Huydecoper I and his eldest son Joan on a diplomatic mission to the Prince-elector Frederick William of Brandenburg, to look for support against the war with Sweden.
During the summers the family spent a lot of their time at the Palace Soestdijk, and the brothers De Graeff played with the young William III of Orange - who became later King of England, Scotland and Ireland and stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands - at the lake and woods at Soestdijk.
After Pieter did a Grand...
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