Answer the following question: Facts: - party: states faction - predecessor: adriaan pauw cornelis de graeff - birth date: 19 february 1611 - relations: cornelis cousin -rrb- jan de witt -lrb- nephew -rrb- cornelis de de witt -lrb- nephew -rrb- pieter corneliszoon hooft -lrb- uncle -rrb- graeff -lrb- brother -rrb- andries bicker -lrb- - death date: 30 november 1678 - spouse: elisabeth bicker van swieten - office: finance minister of holland regent and mayor of amsterdam - term end: 1657 1672 - death place: amsterdam - birth place: amsterdam - successor: jacob de witt gillis valckenier and coenraad van beuningen - nationality: dutch - occupation: regent / mayor and landlord - residence: herengracht '' near voorschoten and '' graeffenveld '' near oud-naarden 446 , amsterdam , country houses '' vredehof - children: cornelis , alia and arnoldina -lrb- aertje -rrb- - term start: 1652 1657 - image: andries de graeff 1661 door artur quellinus.jpg - religion: remonstrants Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of andries de graeff .
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free imperial knight andries de graeff -lrb- 19 february 1611 -- 30 november 1678 -rrb- was a very powerful member of the amsterdam branch of the de graeff - family during the dutch golden age .he became a mayor of amsterdam and a powerful amsterdam regent after the death of his older brother cornelis de graeff .like him and their father jacob dircksz de graeff he opposed the house of orange .in the mid-17th century he controlled the finances and politics .andries de graeff followed in his father 's and brother 's footsteps and , between 1657 and 1672 , was appointed mayor some seven times .de graeff was a member of a family of regents who belonged to the republican political movement also referred to as the ' state oriented ' , as opposed to the royalists .andries was called the last regent and mayor from the dynastie of the '' graven '' , who was powerful and able enough to ruled the city of amsterdam .de graeff was a free imperial knight of the holy roman empire , an ambachtsheer -lrb- lord of the manor -rrb- from urk en emmeloord , during the late 1650s chiefcouncillor of the admiralty of amsterdam , chieflandholder of the watergraafsmeer and dijkgraaf van nieuwer-amstel .together with his broether cornelis de graeff became an illustrious patron and art collector .