Cornelis Matelief de Jonge

The Dutch would ultimately gain control of Malacca more than thirty years later, again joining forces with the Sultanate of Johor, and a new ally Aceh, in 1641.

Born in Rotterdam, Matelief was put in command of a fleet of eleven ships of the Dutch East India Company with the destination of Malacca.

In May Matelief de Jonge formed a formal pact with the ruler of Johor, Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah III, to expel the Portuguese.

Matelief laid siege to the Portuguese-held Malacca for several months,[5] but was repulsed on land by Portuguese troops under André Furtado de Mendonça and their allies, a contingent of Japanese samurai from Red seal ships.

The Santa Cruz and Conceição eventually managed to set the Nassau on fire, leading to an explosion that sank her.

[7] Matelieff sailed in one ship from Ternate to Canton, and on 4 June 1607 he captured a Chinese junk, loaded with spices from Banda.

When six Portuguese ships under André Pessoa showed up in front of the Chinese coast, he went back, without an agreement with China or reaching Japan.

Matelieff arrived unsuccessfully on Bantam on 24 November 1607, and sent Willem Jansz with secret instructions to Banda to forestall the English ships.