Cornelis van Nijenrode
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Who is Cornelis van Nijenrode?
Cornelis van Nijenrode, also Cornelis van Nieuwroode, was Governor of the VOC-trading post in Hirado, Japan from 1623 to 1633.
Cornelis arrived in Asia in 1607. He filled several posts at Dutch East India Company-trading post in Siam. In 1622 he took part in an expedition, sent from Formosa, to the coast of China.
In Japan Cornelis had a daughter, Cornelia, with a local Japanese woman named Surishia.
Cornelis died in 1633, just before he was about to leave for Batavia.
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