Justus de Huybert (Zierikzee, 1610 - Zierikzee, 4 September 1682) was a Dutch politician and diplomat. He held offices of the States of Zeeland in the middle years of the 17th century.
Life
Personal life
Justus (who was actually baptized Joos, after his grandfather[1]) was the second son of the Zierikzee Regent Adriaan de Huybert, who held many positions in the government of the city of Zierikzee in the Zeeland province of the Dutch Republic, and Anthonetta Teellinck. He studied law at Leiden university. He married three times, with Anna Engelbrecht (1640), Levina Munniks, and Geertruida Vorstius (1676; after twice being widowed),[1] and he had two daughters: Genoveva and Anthonia, and a son: Adriaan, from the first marriage.[1][2]
Career
Justus was unable to become a member of the Vroedschap of the city of Zierikzee, because his father was already a member, but in 1645 he was appointed Schepen of the city. In 1649 followed an appointment as pensionary and clerk of the city.[1]
After the death of the Zeeland Grand pensionaryAdriaan Veth in 1663, the States of Zeeland commissioned De Huybert to draft a new instruction for the Grand pensionaries of the province, which he did in a week's time. The States next appointed him their Clerk (and that of the Gecommitteerde Raden of the province[a]) in 1664. He held this position until his death in 1682.[2]
^The Gecommitterde Raden, or Commissioned Councillors, acted as the Executive of the province.
^The First Noble was one of the five members of the States of Zeeland, together with the voting cities of Middelburg, Goes, Zierikzee, and Tholen. The First Noble represented the Zeeland nobility. He was usually the Prince of Orange, as that worthy possessed the marquisates of Vlissingen and Veere. But William had been barred from the position during the First Stadtholderless Period.[3]