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Rost van Tonningen

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Country
  
Netherlands

Founder
  
Jacob Rost

Founded
  
18th century

Ethnicity
  
Dutch

Rost van Tonningen is the name of a Dutch patrician family.

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History

Founder of the family is notary Jacob Rost van Tonningen (1753–1826), who was born as the illegitimate son of the jeweler's daughter Maria Barbara van Tonningen (1717–1791) and the manservant Jacob Rost.

Family

  • Marinus Bernardus Rost van Tonningen (1852–1927), Dutch general
  • Meinoud Rost van Tonningen (1894–1945), Dutch politician and Nazi collaborator
  • Florentine Rost van Tonningen (1914–2007), Dutch national socialist and extreme-right activist, wife of Meinoud
  • Floris Rost van Tonningen (born 1977), co-founder of the Dutch social networking site Hyves, grandson of Meinoud and Florentine.

    • Literature

  • Nederland's Patriciaat (1997) 80e jaargang, pages 306-324.

    • References

    Rost van Tonningen Wikipedia
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