1621

Figures, places, and events in Acehnese history associated with the year 1621.

People

• Augustin de Beaulieu
• Robert Gravé
• Jan Pieterszoon Coen

Places

• Acheh
• Tikoe
• Sumatra’s Westkust
• Jakatra

Events

• Augustin de Beaulieu’s Atjeh mission (1620-1621)
• De Beaulieu’s arrival in Atjeh in early 1621 from Tikoe
• Difficult negotiations with the Sultan and the Rijksgrooten for permission to buy pepper — De Beaulieu complaining of the extortion of gifts
• The November 1621 appearance of an English ship at the Montmorency’s cleaning-bay, bearing the gravely ill Vice-Admiral Robert Gravé
• The Dutch recovery of the l’Espérance — found “gants machteloos” with 74 souls aboard, of whom only Gravé and three others were on their feet
• The death of Robert Gravé in Atjeh in the night of 9 November 1621 and his burial there

Sources

Tijdens de O.I. Compagnie, by Dr. E. C. Godee Molsbergen, Oud-Hoogleeraar, Landsarchivaris te Batavia (Amsterdam: N.V. Swets & Zeitlinger Boekhandel en Uitgevers Mij., 1932), chapter LIV (“Augustin de Beaulieu en Robert Grave”), pp. 194–197 of the numbered-letter sequence.