'JACOB DIRCKSEN DE ROY'
Born Amsterdam 13 June 1601, buried Amsterdam Nieuwe Kerk 6 March 1659. Son of Dirck Jacobszn (1574-1601), beer importer, and Mary Thomasdr (1579-1601),
Married: Amsterdam Court 18 January 1626 Maria Jan Bontendr (1602-1667)
Religion: Catholic
Profession: cloth merchant
Offices and posts: governor of the Roman-Catholic Aged Poor Relief Office 1628-1654, inspector of weights and measures 1639/1642/1645/1648/1650/1655/1656, syndic of the clothmakers' guild 1640/1643/1646/1647/1649/1654/1657/1658,governor of the Schouwburg (theatre) 1641/1642/1651 Register of taxes (1631): the heirs of his father-in-law Jan Gerritszn of Nieuwendijk (no. 196): ∫ 15,000.
Address: Nieuwendijk in 'het Vergulde Spoor' (no. 196, the fifth house north of Gravenstraat) .
Jacob Dirckszn de Roy came from a family of beer importers, most of whom were Protestants . After his parents died of the plague in 1601, he was brought up as an only child by Catholic relatives of his mother and educated as a Catholic. Jacob Dirckszn de Roy owed his social standing to his marriage to the daughter of the cloth merchant on the Nieuwendijk, Jan Gerritszn Bont (1565-1627), whose father had been a cloth merchant there before him and was a syndic of the clothmakers' guild many times between 1572 and 1591 . Jacob Dirck szn de Roy was taken into the Bont family's long-standing cloth business. His father-in-law's concern for their poor made him a highly respected man in Catholic society at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He organized the collection of money and its distribution among the poor adults of the cautiously and quietly reorganizing Catholic community. Their organization was not yet entirely visible during this period, but under his son-in-law Jacob Dirckszn de Roy, who succeeded his father-in-law as 'regent', the Roman Catholic poor relief office became fully functioning . Jacob Dirckszn de Roy was also a respected and prominent figure in the city's cultural life. He was one of the early governors of the theatre, the Schouwburg, in 1641/1642 and 1651/1652. The Board of Governors of the Schouwburg was predominantly Catholic, and so we find him there alongside the Catholic painter Claes Corneliszn Moyaert ([Durgerdam] 1591-1655) and the Catholic poet and playwright Jan Vos (1610-1667). This interest in the theatre was shared by his children.
Children: 1. Dirck (19 November 1626-NK 12 July 1716). 2. Geertruy (14 February 1628- March 1666). 3. Joannes (17 June 1629-NK 13 August 1633). 4. Maria (7 August 1632-November 1684). 5. Joannes (14 May 1635-NK 15 May 1689). 6. Jacobus (12 December 1638-NK 23 March 1640); ACA, archive 5075, ANA (notary L. Lamberti), no. 576, f. 872, 21 May 1629: will of Jacob Dirckszn de Roy, cloth merchant, and Marritje Jan Bontendr, residing on the Nieuwendijk at the sign of 'de Drie Stampers'.
Frederiks 1890, op. cit. (note 13), p. 7, f. 27 no. 60
ACA, Conveyance, no. 34 (formerly E), f. 25V, 1629: purchase; ACA, Conveyance, no. 51 (formerly 2 H), f. 64, 14 October 1660: sale.
Great-grandparents Jacob Meijndertszn (....- 1574/83), beer importer from 't Heck, and Marie Jochems (....-after 1607). ACA, archive 5075, ANA (notary J.J. Pylorius), 16-9-1607. Great- uncle Jan Dominicus (1563-c. 1612), beer importer, married 1583 Neel Jacobs. ACA, archive 5073, Board of Orphans, no. 784, Deposit, no. 13, f. 256V, 10 June 1603. Dirck Jacobszn, beer importer, and Marie Thomasdr.
Gerret Symonszn Bont (..-1593), cloth merchant of Nieuwendijk (Van Dillen 1941, op. cit. (note 55), p. no, f. 65), syndic of the clothmakers' guild 1572, 1574-1577, 1581-1583, 1585, 1586, 1589-1591.
H.C. de Wolf, Geschiedenis van het R.C. Oude- Armenkantoor te Amsterdam, Hilversum & Antwerp, 1966, pp. 26ff.
One of the children: Dirck (19 November 1626-NK 12 July 1716) = is your Theodoor de Roy casado con Van Wonsel.
Yours,
Leo Hendriks
Kastanjelaan 49
2665 GA Bleiswijk
The Netherlands
email: juleo.bleiswijk@versatel.nl
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