Taeckle Gatses (i.e. son of Gatse, of DYKSTRA line)

Taeckle and Saak were married 26 Dec 1613 at the Reformed Church at the Hague. Saak EBEDOCHTER was from the town of Smallebrugge [small bridge].

Taeckle was a farmer at Westhem. Saak died between 1626 and 1636. They had 4 children. Around 1636 Taeckle remarried Trijn EELCKEDOCHTER. On 4 Jan 1637 an inventory took place at his house (apparently there was a problem between the new wife and the existing grown children of Taeckle and he legally separated himself from his children). Sierk EBES became the legal guardian of the 4 children (perhaps a bro of Saak's?).

The dispute was over a piece of land that had been inherited from the mother of Saak and therefore went to the children. They each got a 4th of the value (3460 guilden).

In 1640, Taeckle was the owner of (farm?) #16 in Wolsum. He rented it to Sybren FREERCKS and himself rented another property. Taeckle and Romcke RUIERDTS (user of the land that the children got) were guardians over Ruierd and Joucke DOYTSES, children of Doytse and Ruierdts and Rieme Gatses (Taeckle's sister).

2 images of William, Prince of Orange, later KoE Wm III

If Taeckle lived to be 80yo he saw the early stages of what became 'The Glorious Revolution', led by TDR ldr and Prince of Orange, later KoE Wm III who m. the dau of KoE James II ...

Dates:
- cf Gatse for earlier dates
- 1630s 'tulipmania' esp. summer '36 -> crash early '37, tho tulips (orig from Turkey) were popular and expensive thruout 17C
- 1632 Rembrandt's 'Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp'; TDR stadholder Ernst Casimir shot, succeeded Dec by young son Hendrik Casimir I, 'tactful and influential'; Baruch Spinoza born (d1677 45yo) 1 of 2 most important writers of Dutch Golden Age
- 1637 TDR recaptures Breda
- 1639 Adm TROMP defeats Spain in naval battle in the Downs (off English coast)
- 1640 Hendrik Casimir I shot on campaign in Flanders d. 1/23 (Pier Piers WIJNIA, bro of our ancestor, was sheriff of Sneek in those turbulent years, he d. bef. 1/23)
- 1640s English Civil War, culminates in ex of KoE Chas I 1649, Oliver CROMWELL t/o
- 1641 Fred Henry's son 15yo Wm [II] m. 5/2 9yo Mary (wedding pic), eldest dau of KoE Chas I in hopes of gaining English help in resisting KoF Louis XIV's territorial expansion (nope, Chas I and II remained cautiously neutral)
- 1643 KoF Louis XIV t/o at 5yo to 1715, Cardinal MAZARIN chf min; Denmark v. Sweden war for Baltic supremacy to 1645
- 1645 Grotius dies 62yo, 'father of intl law' e.g. law of seas
- 1647 63yo FH dies, son 21yo Wm II t/o
- 1648 Dutch (and Swiss) indep recog in Treaty of Muenster; end of 30 Years War in Europe and TDR's 80yr war w/Spanish Hapsburgs
- 1650 Wm II dies [smallpox] soon after trying [unsuccessfully] to capture Amsterdam (pic), son Wm [III] born; also John CHURCHILL born and HOBBES' 'Leviathan' pub'd
- 1650s all perceive Spain waning, France rising, TDR becoming primary naval/commercial rival of England, Chas [II] a 'trimmer' but bro James [II] RCC monarchist, hostile to TDR
- 1650-72 no stadtholder (i.e. Orange family barred from govt [v. republican inst's e.g. States General ~ Parliament] exc in Friesland and Groningen)
- Jan 1651 KoE Chas II crowned K of Scotland after taking Presb. Covenant (cynically)
- Sep 1651 Chas' army loses to Cromwell at Worcester, Chas flees on foot, hides in tree ... eventually reaches France
- 1652-4 1st Anglo-Dutch War, ends w/Treaty of Westminster
- 1653-72 Johan de WITT Grand Pensionary of Holland (de facto TDR ldr)
- Dec 1653 Rump Parliament displaced by Protectorate
- 1654 Portugese take Brazil from Dutch
- 1657 Dutch v. Portugal war to 1661
- 1660 Restoration in England (after CROMWELL d. Sep 1658, and son forced out by army May 1659), KoE Chas II enthroned; 12/24 Wm III's mom Mary dies, orphaning him at 10yo
- early 1660s as English threaten New Amsterdam [NYC], Peter STUYVESANT, the last Dutch gov there, remains obstinate and dictatorial, employed by DWIC to run it, he refused to share pwr, but when he ordered citizens to resist English no-one obeyed, so in Sep '64 he capitulated w/o a shot being fired
- 1661 Cardinal MAZARIN dies, KoF Louis XIV becomes absolute monarch
- 1664 Prince Wm Frederick of Nassau d. in a sad mishap, succeeded by young son w/mom/guardian Princess Albertine Agnes as regent (when 20yo he t/o as stadholder and capt-gen)
- 1664 English seize New Amst, rename it NYC i.e. Mar Chas II 'signs a charter assigning a vast stretch of N America to James, breaking the charter he'd issued to Gov. John WINTHROP of CT in 1660, then Apr 30yo James sent Richard NICOLLS w/4 ships, 450 men to t/o the Dutch W India Co of New Amsterdam ... Peter STUYVESANT wanted to resist, but townsmen were happy w/Brit promises of rel. tolerance ... so James had connected England's New England and Chesapeake Bay colonies and est. NYC as an English city, achievements essential to the [later] est. of the USA as we know it'
- 1664-7 Chas II fights Dutch, alliance 1668, then joins French against Dutch 72-3!?
- 1665-7 2nd Anglo-Dutch War, ends w/raid on Medway by de RUYTER and Treaty of Breda
- 1665 London plague; disaster also strikes TDR; Dec dikes brk causing flooding on magnitude not seen since 1570 in Friesland, w/pestilence that followed k. thousands, esp. in cities; same time sea war w/England at its worst, then Bishop of Muenster attacks from E, fortunately stopped by mil. forces at Frisian border
- 1666 London fire; Apr TDR peace w/Bishop
- 1667 Dutch destroy most of English fleet at Medway (de RUYTER, 2nd Anglo-Dutch War); Treaty of Breda ends war
- 1667-8 KoF Louise XIV invades Spanish Neth in 'War of Devolution' (i.e. taking it from Spain)
- 1668 Triple Alliance (England, TDR, Sweden v. France)
- cf JouckeT for later dates