Mattheus Lestevenon

Mattheus Lestevenon, heer van Berckenrode (1715–1797, The Hague) was a city-secretary and schepen in Amsterdam, then Dutch ambassador to France.

His father Mattheus Lestevenon (1674-1743) was an administrator of the Dutch East India Company, heer of Strijen and five-times mayor of Amsterdam (between 1722 and 1736).

[1] His two children Maria Jacqueline and Willem Anne Lestevenon[2] were born in 1749 in Brussels [citation needed] and Paris respectively.

Mattheus again inherited "considerable wealth and goods" ("considerabel veel gelt en goet") on the death of his father in 1743.

After the Pachtersoproer (1748), the Doelisten invited prince William IV and requested to remove the inter-related regenten clique and to change the appointment of mayors.

Mostly it involved meetings with La Vauguyon on finishing the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784) and the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1785); his correspondence with Comte de Montmorin ends in 1788?

The envoys Mattheus Lestevenon and Gerard Brantsen presenting vice-admiral Pierre André de Suffren with a golden sword in 1784 (engraving by Jacobus Buys )
His mansion on Keizersgracht