Pieter de Carpentier

Pieter de Carpentie was a Dutch administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who served as Governor-General there from 1623 to 1627. The Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia is named after him.

Pieter de Carpentier was born in Antwerp in 1586, shortly after the fall of the city to the Spaniards. He studied philosophy in Leiden, from 1603. In 1616 he sailed on board the sailing vessel De Getrouwheid to Indonesia. There he had a number of functions, including Director-General of the Trade, Member to the Council of the Indies, and member of the Council of Defence. From 1 February 1623 to 30 September 1627 he was the fifth Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He participated in the conquest of Jakarta and helped to build the town of Batavia. He did much for the town, including setting up a school, a Town Hall, and the first Orphanage Home. He also designed the structure of the churches in the town.

On 12 November 1627 Pieter de Carpentier sailed from the East Indies as Head of the Fleet. He arrived in Holland on 3 June 1628, with five richly-laden merchant ships, and this, combined with the fact that the Government had recently succeeded in releasing three ships from an embargo laid upon them by the English a year previously, led the authorities to determine to send another fleet of eleven ships to the East, with which General Jacob Specks was to sail. Two ships and a yacht being soon ready to sail, the senate sent them to Texel so as to lose no time. These vessels were the Batavia (under Francisco Pelsaert) the Dordrecht (under Isaac van Swaenswyck) and the Assendelft (under Cornelis Vlack). They left Texel for their destination on 28 October 1628.

De Carpentier was made member of the board of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in October 1629. His maternal uncle, Louis Delbeecque, had been one of the initiators of the VOC.

Pieter de Carpentier married Maria Ravevelt in Middelburg on 2 March 1630. She died in September 1641 and was buried on in the Westerkerk in Amsterdam. De Carpentier died in Amsterdam on 5 September 1659, and was also buried in the Westerkerk. They had seven children.

When Jan Carstenszoon (or Carstensz) and Willem van Coolsteerdt landed the Pera and the Arnhem on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula of New Holland (now Australia) in 1623, after the first discovery by Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken in 1606, they then named the 'Gulf of Carpentaria' after the Governor-General, Pieter de Carpentier.

Pieter de Carpentier war Vorsitzender der niederländischen Ostindien-Kompanie und diente dort von 1623 bis 1627 als Generalgouverneur von Niederländisch-Indonesien. Sein Onkel mütterlicherseits, Louis Delbeecque, war einer der Mitbegründer der Kompanie.

Der Entdecker Jan Carstensz benannte im Jahr 1623 das Ostufer des Golfs von Carpentaria in Australien ihm zu Ehren Carpentaria.

• genealogieonline.nl... ;
• Hij is geboren op 19 februari 1586 in Antwerpen Bel.
• Hij is overleden op 5 september 1659 in Amsterdam, hij was toen 73 jaar oud.
• Leeftijd bij overlijden: 73
• Hij is begraven in Begraven In De Westerkerk, Naast Maria Ravenel Graven 200 en.
• Beroep: stud. phil. 1603, vertrok in 1616 als opperkoopman naar Oost-Indië, directeur-generaal van den handel, lid van de Raad van defensie, gouverneur-generaal, admiraal van de retourvloot, bewindhebber O.-I. Comp. ter Kamer Amsterdam. De golf van Carpentaria is naar hem genoemd..