Background
lieutenant is supposed Coyett was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in a family with Dutch/Flemish roots. His father, a goldsmith, died in 1634 in Moscow.
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Frederick Coyett
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Career
He was the first Swede to travel to Japan and China and became the last governor of Dutch-occupied Taiwan (1656–1662). In common with many people of the time, Coyett"s name was spelled differently at different times and by different people. Frederick could also be Fredrik or Fredrick, and Coyett was also spelled Coyet, Coignet or Coijet.
From 1647 (?) he worked for the Dutch East India Company.
Coyett served twice as the VOC Opperhoofden in Japan, serving as the chief officer in Dejima first between 3 November 1647 and 9 December 1648 and then between 4 November 1652 and 10 November 1653. Frederick Coyett was the brother-in-law of François Caron, both involved in releasing ten Dutch prisoners.
Coyett is mostly known as the last Dutch East India Company ( Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC ) governor of Taiwan. On 10 February 1662 he was forced to surrender Fort Zeelandia after a nine-month siege from a large Chinese force of 25,000 men and 1,000 ships under Koxinga.
Coyett said that Chinese were "little better than poor specimens of very effeminate men", when he believed that there was no plan to invade Taiwan.
The Dutch then changed their tune to "Formosa is lost." once the invasion was underway. With his army decisively crushed by the Chinese under Koxinga, Coyett left Taiwan after Siege of Fort Zeelandia with enough supply to reach Batavia. After three years imprisonment he was tried for High treason, due to his failure to hold Taiwan or preserve vital commercial interests.
Coyett was pardoned and exiled to Rosengain, the most eastern of the Banda Islands, before he was released in 1674.
In 1684 he bought a house on Keizersgracht, on a spot where the Hemony brothers used to have their foundry.
Membership
Their discussion centered on the Nambu affair of 1643, when the skipper Hendrick Cornelisz Schaep and nine members of the crew of the Breskens were captured in Yamada in Iwate Prefecture.
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Nationality
Sweden