About Gerrit de Heere
Lived 1657 – 1702 (aged 45). Gerrit de Heere was a Dutch colonial administrator.
Gerrit Jansz de Heere (1 March 1657 – 26 November 1702) was a Governor of Dutch Ceylon during its Dutch period.
Biography De Heere was the son of Johan Gerritsz de Heere and Marritje Gerrits. From 1693 until 1694, he served as Chief Trader at Dejima, after which he became a senior merchant in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. In 1695, he married Johanna Maria van Riebeeck, who was 22 years his junior and a daughter of Abraham van Riebeeck as well as a granddaughter to Jan van Riebeeck, founder of Cape Town.
De Heere was appointed Governor of Dutch Ceylon on 22 February 1697, which he remained until his death on 26 November 1702, and was succeeded by Cornelis Jan Simonsz.
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Governor of Zeylan
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Gerrit de Heere was born on 1 March 1657 in Amsterdam.
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Gerrit de Heere died on 26 November 1702 in Colombo, Dutch Ceylon.
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Gerrit de Heere was a colonial administrator.
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Gerrit de Heere was Dutch.
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