Brederode, Johan Wolfert van

Johan Wolfert van Brederode came from one of the oldest noble dynasties of Holland, the house of Brederode. Brederode claimed their descent from the counts of Holland and therefore depicted the Dutch lion on their coat of arms. His father was Floris van Brederode, the local owner of Klutinge (died in 1599), and his mother - Theodora van Haften (died around 1630). He succeeded his uncle Valraven IV van Brederode as the owner of all his estates.

Johan Wolfert van Brederode married in 1619 to Anna Johann von Nassau-Siegen , daughter of Johann VII von Nassau-Siegen , a relative of the staff of the Netherlands . He later married Christina Louise von Solms-Braunfels. Brederode made a military career. He was a colonel in the Brederode campaign . From 1630 to 1655, he was governor of Hertogenbosch . In 1635, he became the general of artillery, and in 1642 - the field marshal of the armed forces.

Frederick Heinrich of Orange , the half-brother of the state- builder , named after him the name of the new flagship Brederode , which was under the command of Vice Admiral Witte de Witt and Lieutenant Admiral Martin Tromp .

Despite his noble birth and the fact that he made a career in the Oran army, he was a close friend of Jan de Witt . During the First Period, without a staff halter in 1651, Brederode suppressed the unrest of the Orangemen in Dordrecht. ^[2] He proved himself a Republican and was the first Dutch noble reader to be a staunch supporter of de Witt. Under the leadership of de Witt, in 1654, peace was concluded with England ( Westminster Treaty ), with which the leaders of the Netherlands signed a secret Act of Elimination , which forbade the son of staffhalter William II of Orange , William III , to inherit the post of staffhalter. The main initiators of the act were de Witt, Cornelis de Graff , Jacob van Wassenar Obdam and Brederode. ^[3] His death in September 1655 was also a blow to the great pensioner Jan de Witt, because most of the riders were on the side of the Oransky house .

Johan Wolfert van Brederode and Anna Johann van Nassau-Siegen raised four children who survived to adulthood:

• Sofia (March 16, 1620 - September 23, 1678), married her cousin, Burggraph Christian Albrecht von Don
• Florentina (January 7, 1624 - January 13, 1698), married Earl Moritz von Solms
• Anna Traektana (1625 - February 23, 1672), married in 1670 to Count George Hermann Reinhard von Weed-Runkel
• Anna Amalia (1626 - August 14, 1663), married on February 13, 1645, to Albrecht Hendrick Slavat Vreicher Chlum-Cosemberg, and on December 28, 1662, to Gottlieb Amadeus ^[4]

Five viable children were from his marriage to Christina Louise von Solms-Braunfels:

• Hendrick van Brederode (November 28, 1638 - July 1, 1657)
• Louise Cristina (December 21, 1639 - May 1660), married September 15, 1658 to Fabian von Don-Reichertswalde
• Hedwig Agnes van Brederod (August 10, 1643 - November 27, 1684)
• Amelia Wilhelmina van Brederode (1643 -?), Married April 10, 1664 to Arman Nompare de Comonne la Fors, Marquis de Montpuyan (1615-1701)
• Wolfert van Brederode (November 18, 1649 - June 15, 1679), the last male heir to the Brederode family