Genealogisch bestand van Leo Hendriks » Edzard Jacob Clant (1584-1648)

Personal data Edzard Jacob Clant 

    Clant was een zoon van Egbert Clant en Gratia Rengers. Na de latijnse school in Bremen en in Groningen te hebben bezocht ging hij rechten studeren aan de Universiteit van Franeker. In de periode 1606 tot 1610 reisde hij door Europa. Daarna werd hij Raad van de Ommelanden. Namens de Ommelanden was hij in 1618 en 1619 lid van de Staten-Generaal en nam hij als politiek commissaris deel aan de Synode van Dordrecht. Hij was medeoprichter van de West-Indische Compagnie en gedurende twintig jaar directeur van deze compagnie. In de periode van 1624 tot 1631 maakte hij wederom deel uit van de Staten-Generaal. Vervolgens werd hij gedeputeerde van Groningen.
    In Groningen woonde hij op de door hem in 1627 gekochte borg Scheltkema in Zandeweer. Na een verbouwing in 1633 werd de borg door hem hernoemd in Nijenstein (ook Scheltkema-Nijenstein). Clant was tweemaal gehuwd. In 1616 trouwde hij met Susanna van Eewse en in 1629 met Bauwina Coenders van Helpen. Zijn eerste huwelijk bleef kinderloos en uit zijn tweede huwelijk werden zes kinderen geboren. Hij overleed in augustus 1648 64-jarige leeftijd op zijn borg Nyenstein in Zandeweer.[1] Hij was een oom van Adriaan Clant.
  • He was born on June 5, 1584 in Bremen,DL.
  • He died on August 6, 1648 in Groningen, Groningen, Nederland, he was 64 years old.
  • A child of Egbert Clant and Gratia Rengers
  • This information was last updated on November 19, 2013.

Household of Edzard Jacob Clant

He is married to Bouwina Koenders van Helpen.

They got married on April 26, 1629 at Groningen, Groningen, Nederland, he was 44 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Gratia Susanna Clant  1630-1690 

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Birthday June 5, 1584

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem I de Zwijger (Prins Willem van Oranje) (Huis van Oranje) was from 1581 till 1584 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1584: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 25 » Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
    • May 16 » Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
    • July 4 » Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island
    • July 10 » William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
    • September 13 » San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.

Day of marriage April 26, 1629

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1629: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 10 » Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
    • May 22 » Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.

Day of death August 6, 1648

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem II (Huis van Oranje) was from 1647 till 1650 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1648: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 17 » England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
    • May 15 » The Peace of Münster is ratified, by which Spain acknowledges Dutch sovereignty.
    • June 15 » Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
    • August 8 » Mehmed IV (1648–1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640–1648) as Ottoman Emperor.
    • August 20 » Battle of Lens: French Duc d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
    • December 6 » Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".


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