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Cornelis Tromp, 16291691 by Sir Peter Lely, painted c. 1675.

Cornelis Tromp (September 9, 1629May 29, 1691) was a Commander in chief of the Dutch navy.


Tromp was born in Rotterdam, the son of Admiral Maarten Tromp and Dignom Cornelis de Haes. He served in the First Anglo-Dutch War, being promoted to Admiral after the death of Johan van Galen in the Battle of Leghorn. In the Second Anglo-Dutch War he fought at the Battle of Lowestoft, the Four Days Battle and the St. James's Day Battle. After a failure at Nieuwpoort in August 1666 he was dismissed, but returned in 1672 to fight against the French and English navies in the Third Anglo-Dutch War where he fought in all three fleet actions under Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, distinguishing himself in the Battle of Texel in 1673. In 1676 he became a lieutenant-admiral. He died in Amsterdam.


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Zoals veel welgestelde Amsterdammers in de Gouden Eeuw bezat de zeeheld Cornelis Tromp naast een aanzienlijk pand binnen de grachtengordel een huis buiten de stad.
Voor permanente openstelling is het huis te kwetsbaar, maar wel zal Trompenburg regelmatig voor publiek worden opengesteld.
De zeehelden Jacob van Heemskerck, Piet Hein, Maerten en Cornelis Tromp en Michiel de Ruyter passeren naast vele anderen de revue, evenals de grote zeeschilders zoals Hendrick Vroom, Willem van de Velde de Oude en de Jonge en Ludolf Bakhuysen.
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Born in Den Briel, Tromp sailed the seas from the age of nine, and joined the Dutch navy as a lieutenant in 1621.
In the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652–1653 Tromp commanded the Dutch fleet in the battles of Dungeness, Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen, in which he was killed by a sharpshooter in the rigging of William Penn's ship.
Tromp, a "sea hero", was immensely popular with the common people, a sentiment expressed by the greatest of Dutch poets, Joost van den Vondel in a famous poem describing his marble grave monument in Delft showing the admiral on his moment of death with a burning British fleet on the background:
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