Lt. Admiral Cornelis Evertsen

• Zeeheld, Admiraal. Kees Evertsen was de jongste zoon en tiende kind van commandeur Johan Evertsen (de zoon van de watergeus Evert Heindricxzen, die wij nu kennen onder de naam Jan de Kapitein) en Maayken Jans. Bij de heldendood van zijn vader in 1617 werden alle diens zoons door de Admiraliteit van Zeeland benoemd in de rang van luitenant, ook het jonge Keesje. In 1622 ging hij mee op het schip van zijn broer Johan. In 1626 ging hij in werkelijke zeedienst bij de admiraliteit.
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• Inventaris van het archief van de familie Evertsen, 1659-1803
• Zoon: Hij was de jongste zoon van Johan Evertsen, de Kapitein
• Aanvang zeedienst: Hij trad in 1626 officieel in zeedienst en werd, na enige jaren de kaapvaart te hebben beoefend,
• kapitein(1636).
• Commandeur en als tijdelijk vice-admiraal: Slag bij Duins in 1639, waarbij hij een galjoen overmeesterde, en aan de meeste krijgsverrichtingen van de *Eerste Engels-Nederlandse Oorlog deelnam. zie Engels-Nederlandse Oorlogen).
• Schip tot zinken gebracht en krijgsgevangene: in de Slag bij Ter Heijde (1653) werd zijn schip tot zinken gebracht, waarna hijzelf drie maanden in Engelse krijgsgevangenschap vertoefde.
• Onderbevelhebber van Michiel de Ruyter in 1659 tijdens de Noorse Oorlog (1655–1660; zie Noorse Oorlogen) op Funen tegen de Zweden opereerde en hij onderscheidde zich bij de verovering van de stad Nyborg. Van de zomer van 1661 tot jan.
• Derde Persoon op de vloot(1663) van De Ruyter in de Middellandse Zee
• Vice-admiraal van Zeeland; bij het dreigen van de Tweede Engels-Nederlandse Oorlog (1665–1667) werd hij benoemd tot vice-admiraal van Zeeland (dec. 1664).
• Luitenant-admiraal: na de Zeeslag bij Lowestoft (1665) werd hij luitenant-admiraal in de plaats van zijn broer Johan.
• gesneuveld: op de eerste dag van de Vierdaagse Zeeslag

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Cornelis Evertsen the Elder ( Flushing 4 August 1610 - 11 June 1666 ) was a Dutch admiral from the seventeenth century . Cornelis (aka Kees) Evertsen was the youngest son and tenth child of Commander Evertsen (the son of the Watergeus Evert Heindricxzen which we now know as Johan de Kapitein (John the Captain) and Maayken Jans (Maayken daughter of Jan (John). The heroic death of his father in 1617 were all his sons by the Admiralty of Zeeland appointed to the rank of lieutenant, even the young Keesje. In 1622 he went on the ship of his brother John. In 1626 he went into actual naval service at the Admiralty. In 1628 he had the position of captain (highest non-commissioned officer) under his brother. In 1635 he left out of dissatisfaction with the mismanagement by Lieutenant-Admiral Philips van Dorp the Navy as a privateer (then an honorable profession) to work, but on 25 August 1636 he accepted again, through the intercession of his brother, an appointment as captain of a frigate . He fought under Joost van Stairs Banckert and lost twice in those years his ship through a storm. In the Battle of the Downs in 1639 he boarded a galleon . In 1640 he married Johanna Gorum (1615-1657). In the years to 1646 he held the typical standard tasks of the Navy at that time: the convoy to ships and blocking the Dunkirk pirates .

After the death of Banckert in 1647, he served as de facto commander , from 1 May 1652 during the First Anglo-Dutch War , this was formalized in the temporary rank of rear admiral . He fought in the Battle of Dover , the Battle of the webbing , the Three Days Battle and the Battle of Nieuwpoort . In the final Battle of Ter Heijde ( 1653 ) sank his ship and himself, severely wounded, was taken prisoner for three months, until December imprisoned in London . On 14 March 1654 , he was determined to rear admiral appointed. In 1659 , during the Fourth Northern War , Kees Evertsen was second in command under Michiel de Ruyter and recaptured Nyborg on the Swedes. Until June 1660 he remained in the Baltic Sea. From mid 1661 to January 1663 he was Third Person (third in command hierarchy) under De Ruyter in the Mediterranean Fleet during his actions against Tunis and Algiers . Kees Evertsen was a friend of De Ruyter.

In the run up to the Second Anglo-Dutch War , he was on 16 december 1664 was appointed vice admiral in the Admiralty of Zeeland. After the Battle of Lowestoft , where he was on the Flushing was the commander of the sixth squadron, he was on 15 July 1665 Admiral and took command of the Zealand fleet over from his older brother Johan Evertsen in public opinion wrongly blamed for that defeat. Both brothers now had the same rank. In the summer of 1665 he even served briefly as acting commander of 's Lands Fleet, the first time that a Zealander who honor. When De Ruyter was commander, Kees was the third in command, after Cornelis Tromp . On 11 June 1666, the first day of the Four Days Battle , he was killed on the Walcheren, the ship of his son and therefore vlaggekapitein Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest . He attacked the Henry and launched the ship ablaze with a burner and when he Rear-Admiral John Harman offered to surrender, refused, extinguished the fire and escaped with a last salvo fired was that Admiral Evertsen half lap.

Eventually, Kees and his brother John in a common tomb, that after years of argument between the family and the Admiralty came in the Oude Kerk in Middelburg buried. In 1816 the tomb was transferred to the New Church , where it is still visible. He left after 45,000 guilders. Kees had fourteen children from his first marriage and remarried in 1659 to the daughter of a vice admiral of the WIC , with whom he once had two children. Among the children who would reach adulthood (five died young) had four sons: John (1641), Cornelis (1642), Evert (1644) and Geleyn (1655). All four went to sea, Jan died in 1659 as a boat boy, Cornelis and Geleyn Evertsen Admiral would also be like their father, Evert became captain. All Evertsen of this branch were known for their stubborn and irascible character; Kees himself was also a modest and simple man, appreciated by his fellow officers and loved by its crews.