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Henric Piccardt
1636Mar, 25

Henric Piccardt

Henric Piccardt, Dutch lawyer (d. 1712)
Henric Piccardt (25 March 1636, Woltersum – 6 May 1712, Harkstede) was an ambitious Dutch lawyer who made good at the court of young king Louis XIV of France in Paris where he became a published poet in French. Returning to the Netherlands, he rose to become syndic of the Ommelanden of Groningen and the untitled lord of the majestic manor at Slochteren, the Fraeylemaborg.

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