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    Andries Bicker (14 September 1586 – 24 June 1652) was a prominent burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam, politician and diplomat in the Dutch Republic. He was...
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  • Princeton University and Mount Olive College Bicker (family), a Dutch Golden Age family, headed by Andries Bicker Bicker Isles, an island group in South Australia...
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    protagonists Andries and Cornelis Bicker were briefly expelled from the Amsterdam city government due to internal political problems. After that, the Bicker family...
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    Spanderswoud: Andries Bicker (-1652), Cornelia Bicker (-1678), Geertruid Bicker (-1702), Pieter Pama (1766-1780) Sperwershof: Andries Bicker and Benedictus...
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    in Amsterdam. But Cornelis and his brother Andries together with their cousins Andries and Cornelis Bicker, saw themselves as the political heirs of the...
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    Holland and West Friesland at The Hague. Cornelis Bicker, together with his brother Andries Bicker and his cousin Cornelis de Graeff, was one of the main...
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    family in Amsterdam. But Andries and his brother Cornelis de Graeff together with their cousins Andries and Cornelis Bicker, saw themselves as the political...
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  • Andries is a Dutch and Afrikaans masculine given name or surname equivalent to Andrew. People with this name include Andries van Artvelt (1590–1652), Flemish...
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    double portraits of Amsterdam's leading class such as his Portrait of Andries Bicker, the mayor of Amsterdam. The city's military brass and wealthy members...
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    from William II that Cornelis and Andries Bicker must resign from their posts on the Vroedschap. As result Andries Bicker was purged from the Vroedschap...
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    Frans van Schooten. In 1655 Johan de Witt married Wendela Bicker, daughter of Johan Bicker and Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek, who belonged to the inner...
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    province of Holland and the powerful Regents of Amsterdam, Cornelis and Andries Bicker and their more diplomatic cousin Cornelis de Graeff. With the Peace...
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  • leaders at Dordrecht, such as the van Slingelandts, and at Amsterdam with the Bicker and de Graeff families, the de Witts worked to abolish stadtholdership....
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    Andries Boelens (Amsterdam, 1455 – there, 1519), also: Boelenz, Boelensz., Andries Boel Dircksz. or Andries Boelen Dircksz, was an alderman and mayor...
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    faction of the ruling Dutch Regents such as Cornelis de Graeff and Andries Bicker reigned supreme. They even developed an ideological justification of...
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    the Wisselbank. Jacob Bicker was a son of Gerrit Bicker and Aleyd Andriesdr Boelens Loen. Jacob's oldest brother Andries Bicker ruled the city administration...
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    the republican-minded brothers Cornelis and Andries de Graeff and their cousins Cornelis and Andries Bicker, De Witt supported the Peace of Münster. In...
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    political pressure from the entire Bicker-De Graeff Clan, whose leaders Andries and Cornelis Bicker, Cornelis and Andries de Graeff from Amsterdam as well...
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    2nd cousin Andries de Graeff. His other close relatives were his brothers-in-law (through her 2nd marriage with her full cousin Cornelia Bicker in 1658)...
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    and Amsterdam burgomaster Andries Bicker and Dirk de Graeff himself was a full cousin of the Bicker brothers around Andries. In 1631 he was appointed...
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    and of Hulst in 1645. His chief opponent during the later 1640s was Andries Bicker, burgomaster of Amsterdam and powerful member of the States General...
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    Johan de Witt was Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1653 to 1672. His uncle Andries de Witt previously held the position of Grand Pensionary between 1619 and...
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    "fellow countryman") had previously been used mid 17th century by Andries Bicker and the Loevestein faction, but when French troops invaded the Republic...
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    conquer Amsterdam, the main bastion of the Regents of the De Graeff and Bicker clans. After negotiations, he succeeded in removing a number of his adversaries...
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    de Witt Jacob Dircksz de Graeff Cornelis de Graeff Andries de Graeff Andries Bicker Cornelis Bicker Johan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen 1702–1747 Anthonie...
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    regents after the death of stadtholder William II by Cornelis de Graeff, Andries Bicker among others, issuing into the First Stadtholderless Period the replacement...
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    time of the Dutch Revolt. His father was Andries Cornelisz Boelens Loen (1517-1573), his great-grandfather Andries Boelens, a well known mayor of Amsterdam...
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    (1495, 1497) – Boel Jacobszn Bicker (−1505) (1496–1497, 1499, 1501–1502, 1504–1505, 1507–1510, 1512, 1514–1515, 1517) – Andries Boelens (1455–1519) (1496...
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    had many well-known and important relatives; Andries de Graeff and the brothers Andries and Cornelis Bicker were her uncle, and Johan and Cornelis de Witt...
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    attitude but also for his "fame-seeking". Together with his nephew Andries Bicker, he campaigned for the recognition of the Remonstrants in Amsterdam...
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