Pieter Pietersz Bicker

Pieter Pietersz Bicker (born 1522 in Amsterdam, died 1585 Amsterdam) was a Dutch brewer and politician.

Portrait of Pieter Pietersz Bicker

Biography

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]

• Gerrit Pietersz Bicker, (1554–1604), international trader and merchant, politician
• Jacob Pietersz Bicker (1555–1587) married Aeff Jacobsdr de Moes
  • Jacob Jacobsz Bicker (1581–1626), merchant, advisor and commissioner of Amsterdam, Heemraad van Nieuwer-Amstel^[4]
    • later noble branch of the family Bicker
• Laurens Bicker (1563–1606), traveller, Admiral, trader

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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  Bickers father Pieter Gerritsz Bicker (1497–1567)
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  Bickers son (unsure) Jacob Pietersz Bicker