Johan Bax van Herenthals
| Johan Bax van Herenthals | |
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| 7th Commander of the Cape | |
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In office 14 March 1676 – 29 June 1678 |
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| Preceded by | Isbrand Goske |
| Succeeded by | Hendrik Crudop |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
14 March 1637 's-Hertogenbosch |
| Died | 24 June 1678 (aged 41) Cape Town |
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. Agriculture developed during his term and he is recognized as contributing to the development of Botany and Ethnobiology. He declared two wars with the Khoikhoi. He died in Cape Town.
Johan Bax was probably the grandson of Joan Bax, governor of Heusden and Muiden. His father Willem Maurits, a captain in the Dutch States Army under Willem Ripperda, married Jeanette Hoefijser in 1630 in Deventer. In 1631 Willem moved to Amsterdam, and according to François Valentijn, Johan Bax was born in 1637 in 's-Hertogenbosch. He started his service with the Dutch East India Company around 1656. The following year he arrived in Batavia with Hendrik van Rheede and Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin. In 1663 he was involved in the attack on the Malabar coast under Rijckloff of Goens, in 1667 he stayed in Cochin.
In 1669 at the age of 32, Johan Bax married Aletta Hinloopen (1649–1680), the daughter of Jacob Fransz Hinlopen in Batavia. This made Joan Huydecoper II his uncle. Bax served as the successor to Van Rheede in Colombo and Galle. There he and Aletta had a daughter who died within a year. He sent his uncle a mango, an acacia, a coconut, a civet and a Negombo devil.
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