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Cornelis Lampsins

1600–1664 · 17th century

Cornelis Lampsins was a merchant and burgomaster of Vlissingen in Zeeland. With his brother Adriaan he sponsored the Dutch colonisation of Tobago from 1654, settling planters and enslaved Africans there. In 1662 Louis XIV of France made him Baron of Tobago, though the colony remained Dutch-run and was destroyed in the Anglo-Dutch and Franco-Dutch wars.

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Dutch Tobago

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Cornelis Lampsins. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/cornelis-lampsins
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