Johan Bax van Herenthals

Johan Bax van Herenthals (14 March 1637 – 29 June 1678), also written as Joan Bax, and van Herentals, was born in 's-Hertogenbosch and was the governor of the Dutch Cape Colony from 1676 succeeding the acting interim governor IJsbrand Godske.

[4] In 1631 Willem moved to Amsterdam, and according to François Valentijn, Johan Bax was born in 1637 in 's-Hertogenbosch.

In 1669 at the age of 32, Johan Bax married Aletta Hinloopen (1649–1680), the daughter of Jacob Fransz Hinlopen in Batavia.

Bax sent many specimens in to his uncle Huydecoper such as a herbarium, bulbs and seeds, as well as canaries, parakeets, a monkey and a young rhinoceros.

He was named governor of Dutch Ceylon on 25 October 1678, but he died after a chest infection before he could take that position.