| Commentary | Andries Denijsz. Winius was baptized in Amsterdam on 8 March 1605, the son of the tailor Dionysius Tjercksz. and of Maritgen Andriesdr. Vekemans. On 27 February 1628, he was betrothed to Geertruyd van Rijn (born in 1611), daughter of Willem Jacobsz. van Rijn (of R 31254) and Trijntge Dircks. On 11 June 1636, Cornelis Jochums, 24, and Claes Adamsz., 25, declared at the request of Dionys Tiercx, father of Andries Winius, that the aforesaid Andries Dionys Winius had gone to Moscow in the year 1634 with his wife and his whole household in order to live there. He had taken all his possessions with him, only leaving his house, standing on the corner of the Kerckhoff or Oude Appelmarckt, that had come from the late Geert Lambrecht, who had been the grandmother (bestemoeder) of Andries Dionys's wife (Economisch-Historisch Jaarboek 2(1916), p. 276). In Moscow, Winius was a merchant and Commissary of His Majesty the Tsar of Moscovy. In 1632, Andries Winius, Thomas de Swaenn and Peter Marcelis (brother of Gabriel and Celio Marcellis) were granted a concession for setting up an iron works in the rich iron district of Tula, south of Moscow (Van Dillen, Van rijkdom en regenten, p. 319). On 27 July 1654, a dispute is said to have risen between Winius, as Commissary of the Tsar, and sr. Jacob de Lange, merchant in Amsterdam, concerning the delivery of two cases of weapons containing 50 carabins each. Lange claimed that he had delivered them to Hans Marssou in Moscow, which Marssou denied. There were also discrepancies in other shipments (Van Dillen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van het bedrijfsleven R.G.P. 144(1974), pp.624-5). On Winius, see also Wijnroks, Handel tussen Rusland en de Nederlanden 1560-1640, passim. On 19 November 1636, Jacques Bygoet was bound and apprenticed to Dionysius Tircx on behalf of his son Andries Winnius, merchant, for 2 years, to serve in Moscovy. Bijgoet was to make fire arms (vuyrroersloopen), locks and drawers. Bijgoet was to be paid 400 f. a year. (NA 521, film 4861, Not. Westfrisius). Portraits of Andries Denijsz. Winius and Geertruyd van Rijn by Isaack Luttichuys, thought to date about 1654, were with a Brussels dealer in 1954 (Prijst de Lijst, Exh. Catalogue, Rijsmuseum, 1984, p. 168 (illustrated)). |
