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[Aarnout Joost van der Duyn van Maasdam (1718-1785) His features are according to the poem by Isabelle de Charriere, but his real colour was black brown]
Aarnout Joost van der Duyn
Belangrijkste gegevens
Naamsvarianten:
van der Duin
Geboorte/sterfjaar:
1718-1785
Titels en functies:
Aarnout Joost van der Duyn, heer van 's Gravenmoer, Maasdam, Benthorn en Hinkelenoord, hoogheemraad van Delfland, generaal der ruiterij, gouverneur van Breda, luitenant houtvester van Holland
Sociale categorie:
adel(nobility)
Categorie functies:
Overige regentenfuncties
Aarnout Joost van der Duyn was heer van de heerlijkheden:
naam heerlijkheid
periode
wijze van verwerving
Maasdam 1739-1785
erf
Erfde heerlijkheid Maasdam van broer
Graavenmoer 's 1753-1785
erf
Bronnen/ sources:
Nederland's adelsboek ('s-Gravenhage), 39 (1941), 279, 280
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[Maria Jacoba van Goor (1687-1737), grandmother of Isabelle de Charriere. Notice Classical African features]
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[Baroness Belle van Zuylen, Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805): 'I do not have the white hands.'(1764)]
It’s with great pleasure I can finally show you all the face of Baron van der Duyn, who I have been discussing a lot. His case, next of that of Maria Jacoba van Goor who was Isabelle de Charriere’s granny, really got my research started when I found a poem (1) ‘A son teint noit et basané (About his black brown colour)’(1764) by his friend, Isabelle de Charriere, baroness Belle van Zuylen (1740-1805) and (2) several other leads by her that he was ‘swarthy’ and his family was famous for being ‘swarthy.’ This made me very curious. Imagine, a Dutch baron who was black brown! Where did he come from, how is this possible. His family was one of the oldrest and noblest in Holland.
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[James Boswell, writer. Self-described as 'black,']
According to James Boswell he was (3) ‘chimney sweep’ while his wife, Anna Margaretha van Aerssen was ‘black as chimney.’ She was the granddaughter of the first Surinam governor Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck. Boswell was a grandson of Veronica van Aerssen, a sister of Cornelis van Aerssen. He describes himself as ‘black’ and is described as ‘swarthy with black eyes and black hair.’
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[Governor Cornelis van Aerssen (1637-1688)]
Yet from all these families we are shown only white portraits. These are in my view revisionist portraits to hide that Europe was ruled by a black and coloured elite. Some looked like Classical Africans, and others were dark mulatto types or looked more Asian or white. They were most likely descendents of the original Europeans who came from Africa 40.000 years ago. The whites came only 6000 years ago. Some of these black Europeans claimed blue blood and became the old nobility and royalty (1500-1789) in Europe. Blue blood stood for black blood and was symbolised by a Moor, a classical African, and pitch black in colour.
Sources:
There are No Letters Like Yours: The Correspondence of Isabelle de Charriere and Constant d'Hermenches (European Women Writers Series) (Paperback)
by Isabelle de Charriere (Author), Janet Whatley (Translator), Malcolm Whatley (Translator)
Isabelle de Charriere (Belle de Zuylen) (Hardcover)
by C.P. Courtney (Author)
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