Family Crest of the Boetzelaers
Carel Baron of Boetzelaer (The Hague, February 16, 1727 - IJsselstein, September 21, 1803) was a Dutch Lieutenant General and Commander of Willemstad. Life and work
Van Boetzelaer, son of Louis Willem van Boetzelaer and Eva Maria Slicher, married in The Hague on August 14, 1768 with Josina van Aerssen. Van Boetzelaer originates from the old Dutch noble genus Van Boetzelaer.
Van Boetzelaer had retained as General Major Willemstad when it was conquered by the French, and was therefore appointed Lieutenant General by Cityholder Willem V.
Van Boetzelaer was Grandmaster of the Order of Freemasons in the Netherlands, a function which, in his time, is the Great Master of the Middle Ages and the Very Honorable Society of the Free and Everlasting Metzelaers, in the Republic of the United Netherlands. of Generality and Dependencies, from 1759 to 1798. Under his leadership, the Freemasonry grew in the Netherlands from twenty to seventy logs, the number of orders doubled and the authority of the Great War spread over the Antilles, Surinam, Bengal and Ceylon, East India and South Africa. There were also foundations in Germany, the Austrian Netherlands, and Italy under his authority. Van Boetzelaer contributed to better regulation of the international relations between big-leagues; The sovereignty of the Great Loge of the Seven United Netherlands was confirmed by the English War in 1770 and the German and French superpowers entered into agreements.
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