Pieter Schout

Pieter Schout (c1610 – after 1648), was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij.

Pieter Schout, detail of schutterstuk by Frans Hals in 1639

Biography

He was born in Haarlem and was probably a member of a Catholic branch of the Haarlem Schout family.[1][2] He was a flag bearer (and therefore bachelor) of the white brigade of the St. George militia in Haarlem from 1630-1648 and was portrayed along with the rest of the officers of his militia in Frans Hals' painting The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639.[2] He was preceded by Jacob Cornelisz Schout, probably a family member.[2]

References
  1. Unlike Lutherans and Mennonites, Catholics were accepted as members of the militia, but the highest office they could hold was flag bearer and their names were not recorded as officers.
  2. Pieter Schout in De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken, by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 74, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives


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