High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Foppe van Aitzema (died 1637), a son of Schelte van Aitzema, a man of noble birth, was council to the Duke of Brunswick when he became resident to the state of the United Netherlands in Hamburg. In 1630, he was sent by the States-General of the Netherlands to Wallenstein and the Count of Tilly to sign a treaty of mutual neutrality. Even though Wallenstein had ben for a long time partial to the idea of friendship with the States, he now declared that he couldn't dismiss the army he had raised. The negotiations with Tilly also were fruitless. The same year, Aitzema was sent to Denmark to persuade the King to abolish the new toll he raised in Gluckstadt, which weighed especially on the Hamburgers; but this mission also was without success. In 1636, he traveled without clear goal but at the behest of his masters to Vienna to persuade the Emperor to keep a strict neutrality, which the States wanted to pledge from their side as well. The Queen oif...

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