14 November 1682(1682-11-14) (aged 63) Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
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Dutch Republic
Military service
Allegiance
Dutch East India Company
Battles/wars
Dutch-Portuguese War
Action of 2 May 1654
Conquest of Negapatnam
Siege of Nagapatnam (1658)
Dutch conquest of Malabar (1658-1663)
Siege of Quilon (1661)
Siege of Cochin (1662)
Capture of Cannanore (1663)
Further conquests of Portuguese footholds in Asia[2]
Dutch-Zamorin Conflicts
1666-1668 conflict
1670-1672 conflict
Franco-Dutch War
Third Anglo-Dutch War
Battle of Masulipatnam
Siege of São Tomé (1673)
Kandyan-Dutch War (1670-1675)
Siege of Trincomalee (1673)
Trunajaya rebellion
Rijcklof Volckertsz. van Goens (24 June 1619 – 14 November 1682) was the Governor of Zeylan and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He was the Governor of Zeylan from 12 May 1660 to 1661, then in 1663 and finally from 19 November 1664 to 1675 during the Dutch period in Ceylon.[3] He was also served as Council Member of India during 1679.[4] Van Goens’ managed to monopolize the cinnamon trade, get hold of the Malabar pepper and drive away the Portuguese from Ceylon and the Coromandel Coast for the VOC.
Rijckloff van Goens and his family
Van Goens was born in Rees. He wrote extensively about his travels to Java, Ceylon and India. His writing about visits to the palaces of Sultan Agung and his successors are important references for historians of the Mataram era in Java. He died in Amsterdam, aged 63.
On 20 February 1673, Van Goens with a fleet of 6,000 men attacked Bombay. Soon, The Treaty of Westminster concluded between England and the Netherlands in 1674, relieved the British settlements in Bombay of further apprehension from the Dutch.[5] In 1679 when Rijckloff van Goens arrived at Cape Town, while recuperating from an illness. He recommended to the Chamber of Seventeen, the governing body of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), that land should be granted to Simon van der Stel. When Simon van der Stel received title to 891 morgen (about 763 hectares) on 13 July 1685, he built a house and used the land to produce wine and called the estate as Groot Constantia where Groot in Dutch is great and Constantia is daughter's name of Rijckloff van Goens.[6]
^"Indonesia".
^Mostert, 2007, p. 63
^Cahoon, Ben. "Dutch Governors". Worldstatesmen. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
^"Groot Constantia History". grootconstantia.
^Origin of Bombay By J. Gerson Da Cunha, p. 290
^"Groot Constantia History". grootconstantia.
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