KEPPEL, Arnold Joost van (1670-1718)

Family and Education

bap. 30 Jan. 1670, 1st surv. s. of Oswald van Keppel, heer van der Voorst, baron van Keppel [Dutch], (d.1685) and Reinira Anna Geertruid, da. of Johan van Lintelo. educ. unknown; L.L.D., Camb. 1705. m. 15 June 1701, Geertruid Johanna Quirina (d. Dec. 1741), da. of Adam van der Duyn, heer van St Gravenmoer [Dutch], 1s. 1da. suc. fa. 1685; KG 14 May 1700. d. 18 May 1718; will 11 May 1718, pr. 13 July 1721. TNA, PROB 11/580.

Offices Held

Page of honour 1689 – 90; groom of the bedchamber 1690 – 95; master of the robes 1695-by 1701; gent. of the bedchamber 1701 – 02.

Col., regt. of carabineers (Dutch Army) 1694 – 1713, regt. of Swiss (Dutch Army) 1698–1713, Het Staatsche Leger, vii. 237, 267. regt. of ft. (Dutch Army) 1701 – 13; maj.-gen. of horse (Dutch Army) 1697 – 1701; lt.-gen. 1701 – 09; gen. 1709 – 13; capt. 1st tp. Life Gds. 1699 – 1710; gov. Tournai May-July 1713. Ibid. 234, 267, 334; viii, pt. 3. pp. 430, 489.

Parlimentarian

KEPPEL, Arnold Joost van (1670-1718)

Associated with: Kensington Palace (to 1702); De Voorst, Netherlands; The Hague, Netherlands.Horwitz, Parl. Pol. 203; J. Israel, The Dutch Republic, 886; Add. 61655, f. 72; Add. 61159, passim; TNA, PROB 11/580.;

Likenesses

Arnold Joost van Keppel, earl of Albemarle, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, by (oils, c.1700, NPG); Arnold Joost van Keppel, earl of Albemarle by Sir Godfrey Kneller (oils, 1702, Chatsworth, Derbys.)

Author

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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