Jeremias Van Vliet (Thai: เยเรเมียส ฟาน ฟลีต; 1602 – February 1663[1]) or as Thai people call him, Wanwalit (Thai: วันวลิต)[2] was a Dutch merchant of the Dutch East India Company. He was the Trading Station director of Dutch East India Company in Ayutthaya Kingdom. During the reign of King Prasat Thong between 1633 and 1642[3] and wrote of five books about Siam in Dutch language. Later these were translated into English.[4]
Jeremias van Vliet was born in Schiedam. He was the youngest son of Eewout Huybretchszoon and Maritge Cornelisdochter van Vliet[1] He left the Netherlands in a ship named Het Wapen van Rotterdam (The Rotterdam Arms) in May 1628 and arrived to Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in 1629 before being assigned to Japan. Before being promoted to a merchant doing business with the Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1633. While in the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Van Vliet had a mistress named Osoet Pagua, a Mon woman, with whom they had 3 daughters. Later, when Van Vliet left Siam in 1641, he fought for daughters with Osoet. As a result, all three daughters stayed with Osoet until she died.[5]
After nine years as Director of the Trading Station in Siam, Jeremias van Vliet was promoted to the second Governor of Dutch Malacca in September 1642.[1] He returned to the Netherlands in 1647 and lived in his homeland until his death in February 1663, aged 61.
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JeremiasVanVliet (Thai: เยเรเมียส ฟาน ฟลีต; 1602 – February 1663) or as Thai people call him, Wanwalit (Thai: วันวลิต) was a Dutch merchant of the Dutch...
December 2021. vanVliet, Jeremias. "JeremiasvanVliet's DESCRIPTION of the KINGDOM OF SIAM" (PDF). vanVliet, Jeremias. VanVliet's Siam. Cœdès, George...
books written by westerners who had come to Ayutthaya before such as JeremiasvanVliet who came to Ayutthaya in the early reign of King Prasat Thong, however...
(Thai: คลองปลาหมอ), beside Sabua Canal (Thai: คลองสระบัว) (historian JeremiasvanVliet says it was on the side nearer the Palace Gate), Worawongsathirat...
22 female slaves during a burial of a queen on Bali island. 1634: JeremiasvanVliet describes sacrifice of four pregnant women during building a fort...
on the Chao Phraya River with his colleagues. When JeremiasvanVliet left the factory in 1641, Van Tzum was nominated to succeed him, but first in 1643...
routes expedited trans-peninsular trade with the Sultanate of Kedah. JeremiasvanVliet, Director of the Dutch East India Company's trading post in Ayuthaya...
merchant JeremiasvanVliet, Dutch Opperhoofd The amount to which Ayutthaya texts were destroyed in the Burmese sack of 1767 varies greatly. VanVliet's written...
Johan van Twist 1641 1642 JeremiasvanVliet 1642 1645 Arnout de Vlamingh van Oudtshoorn 1645 1646 Jan Thyszoon Payart 1646 1662 Jan Anthonisz van Riebeeck...
briefly married to JeremiasvanVliet, the leading official of the Dutch East India Company's station in Thailand. In 1642, JeremiasvanVliet left her to become...
of the Pali name Ratthathirat. In the VanVliet Chronicle, written in 1640 CE by Dutch Merchant JeremiasVanVliet, his name is written as Woo-Rhae Rassa...
with this particular type of spirit. According to the writings of JeremiasvanVliet, a director of the Dutch East India Company in Ayutthaya during the...
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Siworawong – an influential royal page. The events were detailed by JeremiasvanVliet.: 211–214 This proposed succession was objected to by some leaders...
period as a protection against counterfeiting. Another Dutch trader, JeremiasVanVliet, noted in 1692 that Lan Xang was trading in gold with Ayutthaya but...
Buddhist Monastery. According to the diplomat and storicoolandese JeremiasvanVliet, director of Ayutthaya office in the seventeenth century the Dutch...
Ratchapraditsathan Temple (วัดราชประดิษฐาน) throughout the reign of Yotfa. JeremiasvanVliet recorded that Yotfa was fond of riding a horse along the fields, watching...
2013: 30 Terwiel 2013: 22–25 vanVliet, Jeremias (1634). Description of the Kingdom of Siam (PDF). Translated by L. F. van Ravenswaay. p. 32. Terwiel 2013:...
historians hold that he was an illegitimate son of King Ekathotsarot, JeremiasvanVliet's account states that he was the maternal cousin of King Songtham –...
Buri, the others do not give a clear location. The Dutch merchant JeremiasvanVliet, however, wrote in his Short History of the Kings of Siam in 1640...
and the Royal Autograph Chronicle. VV, a Dutch document written by JeremiasVanVliet in 1640 CE, refers to him as Prae Rhaem (Thai: พระราม; "Divine Rāma")...
Bartholomeus van der (Haarlem, 1613 – Amsterdam, 1670), 16 works Helst, Lodewijk van der (Amsterdam, 1642 – Amsterdam, 1693), 3 works Helt, Jeremiasvan der (Antwerp...
traversing the damp Uyuni salt flats meant he had to be towed by teammate Jeremias Israel, losing over three hours as a result and any chance of victory....
, American colonial settler of Rhode Island (d. 1697) April 11 – Jan vanVliet, Dutch linguist (d. 1666) April 12 – Johann Christian von Boyneburg, German...
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