Justus de Huybert

Justus (who was actually baptized Joos, after his grandfather[1]) was the second son of the Zierikzee Regent Adriaan de Huybert, who held many positions in the government of the city of Zierikzee in the Zeeland province of the Dutch Republic, and Anthonetta Teellinck.

He married three times, with Anna Engelbrecht (1640), Levina Munniks, and Geertruida Vorstius (1676; after twice being widowed),[1] and he had two daughters: Genoveva and Anthonia, and a son: Adriaan, from the first marriage.

[2] After the death of the Zeeland Grand pensionary Adriaan Veth in 1663, the States of Zeeland commissioned De Huybert to draft a new instruction for the Grand pensionaries of the province, which he did in a week's time.

[2] in 1668, together with his uncle Pieter de Huybert, the Grand pensionary of Zeeland, Justus promoted the aceptance of William III, the Prince of Orange, as First Noble of Zeeland, proving their Orangist credentials.

[b] In 1672 both De Huyberts[c] were drivers behind the naval expedition of Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest that would recapture New Netherland from the English in 1673.