The property is built in 1625 by Jacob van Campen, the architect of the Palace on the Dam Square and the Mauritshuis in The Hague. It was for that time a huge house, with two almost identical wings. It was called 'the Coymanshuizen', to the brothers and Johannes Balthasar Coymans who had gathered each of which concerned a wing.More than a century, the house by dozens of children and cousins Coymans who had gathered be inhabited.
Each generation knew a Balthasar Coymans who had gathered and Johannes. The first Balthasar was a millionaire banker under more 18,000 guilders invested in the trade on the East and under a cloak of his company courier services for William of Orange was carried out. His eldest son,The Balthasar who with his brother Johannes the Coymanshuis was built, had four million on the Wisselbank. A nephew, Balthasar number 3, had so much respect that foreign rulers were staying in his house; he invested mainly in Spanish America and Curacao. His cousin, also Balthasar, went with brother Johannes in words the slave trade. In 1685 was Balthasar-4 the asiento,A license of the Spanish crown to annual 3000 slaves to the Spanish colonies to trading.
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