Until his death in 1664, de Graeff was Amsterdam’s most powerful politician. His tomb chapel, the Baptismal Chapel, containing this memorial plaque can be found in the Oude Kerk.

Cornelis de Graeff was an influential regent and mayor of Amsterdam, also serving as a diplomat of the Republic of the United Netherlands at the height of the Dutch ‘Golden Age’. In 1634, he married his second wife Catharina Hooft, forming an influential alliance with the Hooft family to which fellow mayor Cornelis Pietersz. Hooft and poet P.C. Hooft belonged. He was part of the republican movement where he sought to end the conflict with the Kingdom of Spain, eventually resulting in the 1648 Peace of Münster.

Period	17th century
Materials	Stone

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