Cornelia van Nijenroode
Cornelia van Nijenroode was the daughter of a Dutch East India Company (VOC) merchant by a Japanese courtesan, born on Dejima but raised in Batavia.
Following the death of her first husband, a VOC official, she married Johan Bitter, a lawyer who robbed her of her wealth.
References
- Matt Matsuda, Pacific Worlds, Cambridge University Press (2012), 80.