Andries Bicker

Andries Bicker, lord of Engelenburg (14 September 1586 – 24 June 1652) was a prominent burgomaster of  Amsterdam, politician and diplomat in the Dutch Republic. The Bicker family where very powerfull republicans during the Dutch Golden Age.Biography Andries Bicker at Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek, Deel 10 (1937), by P.J. Blok and P.C. Molhuysen

Bicker was the leader of the politically "Bickerse ligue". He ruled Amsterdam together with his uncle Jacob Dircksz de Graeff ("Bicker-De Graeff clan").Geschiedenis van Holland, Volume 2, Book 2, by Eelco Beukers This gave new power to the republican States faction, which had been weakened since the death of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.Jonathan I. Israel: The Dutch Republic – Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall - 1477-1806. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995, Bicker was one of the strongest political adversaries of the dutch stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange,Seefahrer in schwedischen Diensten: Seeschifffahrt und Technologietransfer im 17. Jahrhundert, by Hielke van Nieuwenhuize, p 232 (2022) and controlled Dutch foreign policy. He, together with his brother Cornelis BickerAndries and Cornelis Bicker at Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid and cousin Cornelis de Graeff, was one of the main initiators of the Peace of Münster, the end of Eighty Years' War.Amsterdam: a brief life of the city. By Geert Mak, Harvill Press (1999), p 123Buitenplaatsen in de Gouden Eeuw: De rijkdom van het buitenleven in de Republik. Herausgegeben von Y. Kuiper, Ben Olde Meierink, Elyze Storms-Smeets, p 71 (2015)

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 Andries Bicker Biography I at Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek
 Andries Bicker Biography II at Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden
 Andries and Cornelis Bicker at Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid

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