Pieter de Graeff

Pieter de Graeff
President-bewindhebber of the Dutch East Indies Company
In office 1664–1707
Preceded by	Cornelis de Graeff
Personal details
Born	1638 Amsterdam
Died	1707 Amsterdam
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Dutch States Party
Spouse	Jacoba Bicker van Swieten
Relations	Cornelis de Graeff (father) Catharina Hooft (mother) Andries de Graeff (uncle) Johan de Witt (cousin)
Children	Johan and Cornelis
Residence(s)	Castle Ilpenstein and a Cityhouse at Herengracht 573
Occupation	Regent, Landlord
Profession	Jurist

Pieter de Graeff (15 August 1638 – 3 June 1707) was a Dutch aristocrat of the Dutch Golden Age and one of the most influential pro-state, republican Amsterdam Regents during the late 1660s and the early 1670s before the Rampjaar 1672. As president-bewindhebber of the Dutch East India Company, he was one of the most important representatives and leaders of the same after the Rampjaar.

De Graeff's political stance was characteristic of his family, on the one hand libertine and 'state oriented', republican on the other hand, if only partially, loyal to the House of Orange, the royalists.^[1] He held the titles as Free Lord of Zuid-Polsbroek and 19.th Free Lord of Ilpendam and Purmerland. De Graeff was in intimate contact with the statesmen Johan de Witt and Willem III of Orange, the painter Jan Lievens and the poet Joost van den Vondel.