He played an important role in the coup d'état of 22 January 1798 in the Batavian Republic, by general Herman Willem Daendels, which brought the radical unitarist faction of Wybo Fijnje and Pieter Vreede to power, and he helped write the Staatsregeling voor het Bataafse Volk of 1798 (the first Dutch Constitution).
Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Pieter Brueghel | Pieter Mulier II | Pieter Hintjens | Pieter Wispelwey | Pieter Willem Korthals | Pieter Vreede | Pieter van Vollenhoven | Pieter van Musschenbroek | Pieter Vanderlyn | Pieter Teyler van der Hulst | Pieter Snapper | Pieter Rossouw | Pieter Langendijk | Pieter Kasteleyn | Pieter Hugo | Pieter Feith | Pieter de Ring | Pieter de Hooch | Pieter Bourke | Pieter Bleeker | Pieter Aertsen | Pieter Zeeman | Pieter van der Hulst | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Pieter Seelaar | Pieter Rijke | Pieter Paulus | Pieter Nuyts | Pieter Nooten |