Walraven III van Brederode

Walraven III van Brederode (1547–1614) was a Dutch aristocrat and diplomat.

Print from 1608 by Hendrik Hondius

Walraven was a son of Reinoud IV van Brederode and Margaretha van Doerne.

Walraven become Lord Van Brederode on the death of his father in 1584. He married Gulielma van Haeften.

He was ambassador to Scotland from the Dutch Republic or United Provinces for the christening of Prince Henry in August 1594, accompanied by "Jacobus Falkius", Jacob Valke, treasurer of Zeeland.[1] During the celebrations at Stirling Castle the two ambassadors were given gold chains worth 1,000 crowns. They presented two large gold cups weighing 300 ounces and a letter in a gold box giving Prince Henry a yearly pension of 5,000 "Gelderlings" or "Gudlenes".[2] He also brought a copy of the Scottish ratification of the Treaty of Binche (5 December 1550) which was made on 1 May 1551, and he confirmed this league of friendship between Scotland and the Low Countries at Edinburgh on 13 September 1594. These documents were kept in a round box for many years. The lawyer Thomas Hamilton examined Brederode's commission in 1619 and noticed useful details regarding East Indian trade.[3]

The arrival of the ambassadors in Scotland on 3 August and their entertainment at the baptism was noted by William Fowler in his A True Reportarie of the Baptisme of the Prince of Scotland (Robert Waldegrave, Edinburgh, 1594). In September 1594 James VI gave them gold chains worth 1000 French crowns as a parting gift.[4] Brederode and Valke travelled from Edinburgh to Newcastle upon Tyne where they were welcomed by the town officials and the mayor Lionel Maddison.[5] They were treated to a banquet including baked rabbit, fish, and swan, a barrel of London beer, and sugar confectionaries, to the accompaniment of music by the town waits.[6]

He died in 1614.

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester had a portrait of "Mounsieur Brederodes" at Kenilworth Castle in 1583.[7]

References
  1. Thomas Birch, Memorials of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1 (London, 1754), p. 184.
  2. Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol. 16 (London, 1715), p. 264: Thomas Thomson, The Historie and Life of King James the Sext (Edinburgh, 1825), p. 335-7.
  3. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. 12 (Edinburgh, 1895), p. 23: The Melros Papers, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1837), pp. 334-5.
  4. Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts, 1588-1596', Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), p. 77.
  5. Annie Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 418.
  6. Richard Welford, History of Gateshead and Newcastle, vol. 3 (London, 1890), pp. 91-3.
  7. HMC Lord De L'Isle & Dudley, vol. 1 (London, 1925), p. 291.
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