The Speelman Baronetcy, of the Netherlands, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 9 September 1686 for the two-year-old Cornelis Speelman, who later became a General in the Dutch Army. At the same time his mother was given the rank of the widow of a Baronet. Speelman was the only son of John Cornelis Speelman (1659-1686), who died before the letters patent

Letters patent

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 intended to create him a Baronet had passed the Great Seal

Great Seal of the Realm

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. The sixth Baronet was Burgemeester of the city of Harlingen

Harlingen, Netherlands

Harlingen is a municipality and a city in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland at the Wadden Sea. Harlingen is an old town with a long history of fishing and shipping....

 in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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Speelman Baronets (1686)

• Sir Cornelis Speelman, 1st Baronet (1684-1746)
• Sir Cornelis Speelman, 2nd Baronet (1722-1787)
• Sir Cornelis Speelman, 3rd Baronet (1747-1825)
• Sir Abraham Florentius Speelman, 4th Baronet (1784-1840)
• Sir Cornelis Jacob Abraham Speelman, 5th Baronet (1823-1898)
• Sir Helenus Marinus Speelman, 6th Baronet (1852-1907)
• Sir Cornelis Jacob Speelman, 7th Baronet (1881-1949)
• Sir Cornelis Jacob Speelman, 8th Baronet (b. 1917)

Dutch nobility (1817)

In 1817, Sir Cornelis Speelman, the 3rd Baronet, was raised into the Dutch nobility by King Willem I of the Netherlands. Since then all his descendants belong to the untitled nobility with the Dutch honorific title Jonkheer

Jonkheer

Jonkheer is a Dutch honorific of nobility.-Honorific of nobility:"Jonkheer" or "Jonkvrouw" is literally translated as "young lord" or "young lady". In medieval times such a person was a young and unmarried son or daughter of a high ranking knight or nobleman...

, with inheritance in male line.