Adriaan van der Meyden
1653 - 1660
After
Rijckloff van Goens
1660 - 1661 | 1663 - 1663 | 1665 - 1675 |
After
Adriaan van der Meyden
1653 - 1660

Adriaan van der Meyden
1653 - 1660
After
Rijckloff van Goens
1660 - 1661 | 1663 - 1663 | 1665 - 1675 |
After
Jacob Hustaert
1663 - 1664

Adriaen Roothaes
1664 - 1665
After
Rijckloff van Goens
1660 - 1661 | 1663 - 1663 | 1665 - 1675 |
After
Ryklof van Goens de jonge
1675 - 1679
 
Rijckloff van Goens

Dutch Governors | Dutch - (1660 - 1661)

Rijckloff van Goens (24 June 1619 – 14 November 1682) was the Governor of Zeylan and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He was the Governor of Zeylan from 12 May 1660 to 1661, then in 1663 and finally from 19 November 1664 to 1675 during the Dutch period in Ceylon.[1]
 
Van Goens was born in Rees. He wrote extensively about his travels to Ceylon and India. His writing about visits to the palaces of Sultan Agung and his successors are important references for historians of the Mataram era in Java. He died in Amsterdam, aged 63.
 
On 20 February 1673, Van Goens with a fleet of 6,000 men attacked Bombay. Soon, The Treaty of Westminster concluded between England and the Netherlands in 1674, relieved the British settlements in Bombay of further apprehension from the Dutch.
 
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