Adriaen Maertensz Block [SEP] place of birth
Adriaen Maertensz Block
Adriaen Maertensz Block (c.1582, Gouda - 7 March 1661, Lisse) was successively captain, commander, and governor of Ambon between 1614-1617, administrator of the "Raad van Indië" for the Kamer of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam (VOC) in Batavia.
In 1627 two of his ships wrecked on the island Wight in a storm. He probably intended to go there to buy secretly and trade privately. He was suspended and declared unsuitable for other similar offices, and retired
Adriaen
Adriaen is a Dutch form of Adrian. Notable people with the name include:
- Adriaen Banckert (1615–1684), Dutch admiral
- Adriaen Block (1567–1627), Dutch private trader and navigator
- Adriaen Brouwer (1605–1638), Flemish genre painter
- Adriaen de Vries (1556–1626), Northern Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands
- Adriaen Hanneman (1603–1671), seventeenth-century Dutch painter
- Adriaen Isenbrandt (1480–1551), Flemish Northern Renaissance painter
- Adriaen Maertensz Block (1582–1661)