Pieter de Huybert

Pieter de Huybert (Middelburg, 1 April 1622 - The Hague, 7 January 1697) was a Dutch politician and diplomat.

In this period he was used by the Dutch Republic as a diplomat, among others in Mechelen in the Spanish Netherlands (1652 and 1659); Sweden (1656-7); Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Brandenburg-Prussia(1659-1660).

His next post was that of Grand pensionary of the States of Zeeland (and of the Gecommitteerde Raden at the same time), which he attained on 19 March 1664 (so there was an overlap with his previous function).

[3] De Huybert (together with his nephew Justus) was instrumental in having William III recognized as First Noble[c] in 1668.

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