Willem, Johan de

Born in the Netherlands. (Sune Dalgård: Det Petsoriske Kompagni af 1619:34) Died in 1631, buried 1631-3-23 in Nicolai Kirke. (BioLek I)

Family
Brother: Willem, Paul de, grand merchant in Amsterdam (Sune Dalgård: Det Petsoriske Kompagni af 1619:34).

Timeline
Arrived in Copenhagen via Hamburg. (Sune Dalgård: Det Petsoriske Kompagni af 1619:35)

Delivered large amounts of war material to the crown in return for grain and cattle. (Sune Dalgård: Det Petsoriske Kompagni af 1619:34)

1604 - mentioned as a citizen of Hamburg. (Dalgaard: Dansk-norsk hvalfangst, p. 61)

1609 - mentioned as a merchant of Copenhagen. (Dalgaard: Dansk-norsk hvalfangst, p. 61)

1614 - were granted a four-year concession to hunt whales in Norway. (BioLek I)

1615 - Proposed the creation of an Ostindisk Kompagni. (Sune Dalgård: Det Petsoriske Kompagni af 1619:36)

1616 - Was sent out by the king to recruit skilled Dutch craftmen and merchants to Denmark. (Sune Dalgård: Det Petsoriske Kompagni af 1619:36)

1618 - Bought a harbourside property in the new Christianshavn. (BioLek I)

1619 - Invested 100 rigsdaler in the new Petsorisk Kompagni with the intention of trade in northern Russia. Other investors were king Christian IV who was responsible for half of the invested capital along with Vibe, Mikkel; Post, Johan; Hegerfeldt, Herman; Blanckefort, Boldewin; Mikkelsen, Jacob and likely Lorck, Thomas. (Sune Dalgård: Det Petsoriske Kompagni af 1619:32)

1622 - Bought a kalkovn in Skåne and received a local monopoly in the production af chalk. (BioLek I)

1622 - became a member of "Det danske Broderskab" in Copenhagen". (BioLek I)

1623 - took over the royal silk factory in Copenhagen. (BioLek I)

1624-25 - Attempts to create a new trading company to trade in the West Indies, Brasil, Virginia and Guinea. (Dalgaard: Dansk-norsk hvalfangst, p. 62) Called Karaibisk Handelskompagni. (BioLek I)