Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam

Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam
Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam
	Baron Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam
Birth name	Jacob van Duvenvoorde
Born	1610; The Hague, Holland, Dutch Republic
Died	13 June 1665 (aged 54–55); near Lowestoft, England
Buried	Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk, The Hague
Allegiance	Dutch Republic
Years of service	1631–1661
Battles/wars	Eighty Years' War; Capture of Maastricht; Second Northern War; Siege of Danzig; Battle of the Sound; Second Anglo-Dutch War; Battle of Lowestoft †

Jacob, Banner Lord of Wassenaer, Lord Obdam, Hensbroek, Spanbroek, Opmeer, Zuidwijk and Kernhem (1610 – 13 June 1665) was a Dutch nobleman who became lieutenant admiral, and supreme commander of the navy of the Dutch Republic. The name Obdam was then also spelled as Opdam. British contemporaneous sources typically refer to him as Admiral Opdam or Lord Obdam because it was not until 1657 that he bought the Wassenaar Estate from relatives and thus acquired its title. Modern Dutch sources sometimes less correctly insert a second "van" between "Wassenaer" and "Obdam" or use the modern spelling "Wassenaar".