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Cornelis de Witt (pronunciation (help · info)) (15 June 1623 – 20 August 1672) was a Dutch politician. Biography. Cornelis de Witt was born on 15 June 1623 in Dordrecht ...
DE WITT, Cornelis
Encyclopedia ... 1623–72), Dutch naval officer, prominent in the struggle to make the Dutch States-General, or parliament, supreme over the ruling house of Orange.
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Cornelis de Witt (Dordrecht, 15 juni 1623 – Den Haag, 20 augustus 1672) was pensionaris van Dordrecht en broer van Johan de Witt. De twee broers, zoons van Jacob de Witt ...

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Cornelis de Witt (1623-1672), Dutch naval officer, prominent in the struggle to make the Dutch States-General, or parliament, supreme over the ruling house of Orange. The elder brother of Jan De Witt, he was born in Dordrecht, became an alderman of the city in 1648, and was a burgomaster, or chief magistrate, in 1667 and 1668. He was a naval commander during the Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654 and 1665-1667). In 1672, while imprisoned on charges of plotting against William III, prince of Orange, he and his brother were slain by a mob.