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Which close associates of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt were arrested with him?
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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, painting by M.J. van Mierevelt; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
On August 29, 1618, Prince Maurice of Orange ordered the arrest of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt along with several of his closest collaborators. Among these associates, the most prominent was Hugo Grotius, who served as the pensionary of Rotterdam and was considered Oldenbarnevelt's informal "crown prince".1
Following the political struggle between the Remonstrants and the Gomarists, Grotius was sentenced to life imprisonment at the fortress of Loevestein, though he later famously escaped in 1621.2