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Anthonie Heinsius

Dutch statesman (1641–1720)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Anthonie Heinsius was a Dutch statesman who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1689 to his death in 1720. Heinsius was an able negotiator and one of the greatest and most obstinate opponents of the expansionist policies of Louis XIV of France. He was one of the driving forces behind the anti-French coalitions of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714).

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“Anthonie Heinsius” enters the record as dutch statesman (1641–1720). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anthonie, Heinsius and Dutch can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1689, 1720, 1688, 1697—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Anthonie, Heinsius and Dutch.
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“Anthonie Heinsius” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Anthonie, Heinsius and Dutch provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1689, 1720, 1688 and 1697.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anthonie Heinsius” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.