Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch politician (born 1547)

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

Dutch statesman and revolutionary (1547–1619)

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613), was a Dutch statesman and revolutionary who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain.