Death
Before De Graeff died, he and his only son, Cornelis, became knights of the Holy Roman Empire. They said, that they descent from Wolfgang von Graben, member of the Austrian noble family House of Graben von Stein, which was an apparent (or illegitimate) branch of the House of Meinhardin. That diplome dadet from 19 July 1677. His tomb chapel is to be found of at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.
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