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2 unusual facts about Cornelia van Nijenroode


Cornelia van Nijenroode

Johan Bitter returned to the Netherlands in 1680, but returned as a councilor of the legal court in 1683, and their conflict over the control of her fortune caused such a public scandal that they were both exiled from the colony by the governor Johannes Camphuys in 1688.

She is the subject of Leonard Blussé's Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century.



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