Christiaan Bangeman Huygens

Christaan Diederik Emerens Johan Bangeman Huygens (31 October 1772 in Sint-Oedenrode – 24 March 1857 in Maastricht) was a Dutch diplomat and civil servant, from 1825 to 1832 Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Washington, DC.

In 1815 he was again appointed Minister Pleninpotentiary, now of the new United Kingdom of the Netherlands, to the Hanseatic Cities in Hamburg, which he remained till 1825.

In 1831 he was instrumental in the retrieval of part of the jewelry collection of the Princess of Orange, future Queen Consort of the Netherlands, that had been stolen in 1829 in Brussels by a certain Constant Polari, and had been transported to the U.S.[4] In 1832 he again went to Copenhagen, where he had started his diplomatic career, as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Danish Court, and remained there till 1842.

Bangeman Huygens first married Elise Marguerite Josèphe Sophie Constance Marie Lauri, countess of Danneskiold Löwendal, in Paris in 1802.

In 1818 he bought Henkenshage mansion in his birthplace Sint-Oedenrode, where he lived for a while, until it went to his only son, Rutger Bangeman Huygens van Löwendal in 1843.