| 词条 | Maria van Riebeeck |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Maria van Riebeeck | honorific_suffix = | image = Maria Quevellerius or Maria Scipio.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Maria de la Queillerie | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1629|10|28}} | birth_place = Rotterdam, Dutch Republic | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1664|11|02|1629|10|28}} | death_place = Dutch Malacca | spouse = Jan van Riebeeck | children = 8}} Maria van Riebeeck (née de la Queillerie; 28 October 1629 – 2 November 1664) was a French Huguenot who was the first wife of Jan van Riebeeck, the Dutch colonial administrator and first commander of the settlement at the Cape. LifeShe was the daughter of Abraham de la Queillerie (1589–1630) from Tournai, Belgium and Maria du Bois (born 1594 died unknown) from France. She married Van Riebeeck on 28 March 1649 in Schiedam, Netherlands. The couple had eight children, of whom most died young. The couple arrived to the later Cape Town in South Africa in 1652.{{cn|date=June 2015}} The first period, they lived in a tent. Maria acted as the hostess to guests, is said to have entertained with a clavicord, and was described as diplomatically gifted in the company of foreigners. She was from 1658 active as a money lender to the colonists, and used a slave girl as an interpreter to communicate with the native population.{{cn|date=June 2015}} She died in Malacca, Malaysia, on 2 November 1664, aged 35, from undisclosed causes. LegacyShe has been referred to as the ancestral mother of the white Afrikaners. A statue of her by Dirk Wolbers was erected in Cape Town in 1952 on the three hundredth anniversary of their arrival in the Cape. The South African Navy submarine, the SAS Maria van Riebeeck, was named in her memory. References
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