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Dutch brewer and politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pieter Pietersz Bicker (born 1522 in Amsterdam, died 1585 Amsterdam) was a Dutch brewer and politician.
Pieter Pietersz Bicker was the son of Pieter Gerritsz Bicker (1497–1567), Schepen of Amsterdam in 1534, and Anna Codde.[1] His brothers were Dirk, Jan and Jacob Bicker. Pieter Gerritsz himself was a son of Machteld Pietersdr Bicker (circa 1455–1516) and Gerrit Dirkse (Helmer) van den Anxter (around 1450–1521/26)[2] and had taken the family name Bicker from his mother, and therefore became the ancestor of the important Amsterdam patrician family Bicker.
Pieter Pietersz Bicker married to Lijsbeth Banninck [an ancestor of Frans Banninck Cocq] and had three sons with her:[3]
His daughter Dieuwer Jacobsdr Bicker (1584-1641) came from his second marriage. She was married to Jan van Helmont and painted by Jacob Adriaensz Backer.[5]
In 1566 Pieter Pietersz Bicker was involved as Amsterdam's envoy in the trade dispute with Danzig.[6] In 1575 he undertook a journey to Friesland. On his return to Amsterdam he was banished from the city on suspicion of being in league with the Geuzen,[7] but was pardoned a short time later because of his confession of the King of Spain as the legitimate Count of Holland and the Catholic religion.[8] In 1576 he worked together with Dirck Jansz Graeff as a delegate of the Dutch States General in Hamburg and Bremen, where they were able to take out a loan of 600,000 guilders for the Dutch government.[9]
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