Johan Cornelis d'Ableing (also spelled Joan, Jan, d'Ablaing) (20 November 1663 – 21 May 1721), was secunde and acting governor at the Cape.
[3] In October 1698, D'Ableing was summoned to Batavia because of private trade and in 1700 he was dismissed and repatriated to the Netherlands.
[4] In 1706 he was re-admitted to the service of the VOC as a senior merchant and on 6 May 1707, D'Ableing arrived at the Cape as secunde (second in command).
He served under his cousin, governor, W. A. van der Stel, who on 16 April 1707 was notified of his dismissal and recall to the Netherlands.
A son, Johan Daniel d'Ableing (or d'Ablaing), lord of Haulsin and Peursum, who accompanied his father to the Cape as a boy of five, became by marriage baron of Giessenburg, Giessen-Nieuwkerk and Cadzand.