page_title: Cornelis Bicker
hierarchical_section_title: Cornelis Bicker
caption_attribution_description: English: Cornelis Bicker (1591-1654); mayor of Amsterdam
context_page_description: Cornelis Bicker, heer Van Swieten and of Kasteel Swieten, was a regent of the Dutch Republic and a governor of the Dutch West India Company. He was also a sugar merchant, hoogheemraad of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland and a counsellor of the States of Holland and West Friesland for Amsterdam at The Hague.
  Born in Amsterdam, he was a member of that city's Bicker family - along with their allies the De Graeff family, they controlled Amsterdam's city government and the province of Holland for half a century. Both families were powerful and influential between the 1640s and 1672 during the height of the Republic's power.
context_section_description: Cornelis Bicker (25 October 1592 – 15 September 1654), heer (lord) Van Swieten and of Kasteel Swieten, was a regent of the Dutch Republic and a governor of the Dutch West India Company. He was also a sugar merchant, hoogheemraad of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland and a counsellor of the States of Holland and West Friesland for Amsterdam at The Hague.
  Born in Amsterdam, he was a member of that city's Bicker family - along with their allies the De Graeff family, they controlled Amsterdam's city government and the province of Holland for half a century. Both families were powerful and influential between the 1640s and 1672 during the height of the Republic's power.
caption: Bicker, painted in 1654 by Govert Flinck (Amsterdam Museum).
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