Author: Haak, S.P. ... [et al.] (eds.), Oldenbarneveld, Johan van.
Title: Johan van Oldenbarnevelt : bescheiden betreffende zijn staatkundig beleid en zijn familie. Deel 1: 1570-1601;
Description: Den Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1934. Orig. cloth binding. xxxvi,719 pp.; Stempels. Beetje wellig. Nummer op de rug geschreven. Goed exemplaar. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547-1619) was a Dutch statesman who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain. In 1586 he became Land's Advocate of Holland for the States of Holland, an o ffice he held for 32 years. Though nominally the servant of the States of Holland, Van Oldenbarnevelt made himself the political personification of the province which bore more than half the entire charge of the union. As mouthpiece of the States-General, he practically dominated the assembly. In a brief period, he became entrusted with such large and far-reaching authority in all details of administration, that he became the virtual Prime minister of the Dutch republic. On 29 August 1618, by order of the States-General, Van Oldenbarnevelt and his chief supporters, Hugo Grotius, Gilles van Ledenberg, Rombout Hogerbeets and Jacob Dircksz de Graeff, were arrested and lost their political positions in government. Oldenbarneveld was convicted to death by a special court on Sunday, 12 May 1619. On the following day, the old statesman, at the age of seventy-one, was beheaded in the Binnenhof, in The Hague.

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