death_date death_place birth_place height name parents birth_date known_for image article_title birth_name death_cause
22 july 1633 ter veen -lrb- veere ? -rrb- edam 9 amsterdam feet -lrb- 8 ft 4 in -rrb- trijntje keever cornelis keever anna pouwels 10 april 1616 tallest female person in recorded history -lrb- alleged -rrb- trijntje keever.jpg trijntje keever
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trijntje keever

trijntje cornelisdochter keever -lrb- april 10 or 16 , 1616 -- july 22 , 1633 -rrb- , nicknamed de groote meid -lrb- in english , `` the big girl '' -rrb- , is alleged to be the tallest female person in recorded history , standing 9 amsterdam feet or tall at the time of her death at age seventeen .
trijntje keever was the daughter of cornelis keever and anna pouwels .
cornelis was a dutch skipper and anna was his maid ; he married her on may 24 , 1605 .
trijntje was born on april 10 or 16 , 1616 in edam .
trijntje 's parents took her to carnivals to earn some money by letting people see her .
trijntje first received public attention when she was nine years old and had reached the height of .
a royal company consisting of the bohemian king frederick v , elector palatine , his wife elizabeth of bohemia and the princess amalia of solms-braunfels , living in the hague at the time , visited her , curious about the `` nine-year-old girl taller than every man in europe . ''
trijntje died of cancer at the age of 17 in ter veen -lrb- veere ? -rrb- .
she was buried on july 7 , 1633 in edam , her town of birth .
her epitaph is said to have read , `` trijntje crelis groote meidt oudt 17 jaer '' , or , in english : `` trijntje crelis , big girl , 17 years of age '' .
in the townhall of edam is a lifesize painting by an unknown artist portraying trijntje in civilian clothes with a belt holding at her right a keyring and at her left a pincushion and a sheath with a knife , fork , and spoon .
the caption with the painting suggests she was portrayed more beautiful than she really was and that she probably suffered from acromegaly .
her original shoes are also on display .
if there were a size for the shoes , they would be european size 54 -lrb- 36 cm or 14 in long -rrb- .
if her height was correct she would be the tallest woman ever , overtaking zeng jinlian and the fourth tallest person ever , behind robert wadlow , john rogan and john f. carroll .
