Adriaen Maertensz Block
Adriaen Maertensz Block (c.1582, Gouda - 7 March 1661, Lisse) was successively captain, commander, and governor of Ambon between 1614-1617, administrator of the Raad van Indiƫ for the Kamer of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam (VOC) in Batavia.
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Replica of Block's flagship, the Duyfken
In 1627 two of his ships wrecked on the island Wight in a storm. He probably intended to go there to buy secretly and trade privately.[1] He was suspended and declared unsuitable for other similar offices, and retired in a country house at Lisse (which he had let built in 1641), now known as Kasteel Keukenhof.[2]
In his inventory were many books listed on navigation and history: Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Hugo de Groot, Justus Lipsius, Lieuwe van Aitzema, Plutarch, Tacitus.[3]
Notes
- (in Dutch) IJzerman, J.W. (1923) Cornelis Buijsero te Bantam. 1616-1618. Zijn brieven en journaal, met inleiding en bijlagen, p. 168-170.
- (in Dutch) Landgoed Keukenhof Archived September 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Buitenplaatseninnederland.nl
- (in Dutch) Hulkenberg, A.M. (1975) Keukenhof. Uitgave van de Historische Vereniging Holland, p. 49-51.
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