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Updated: June 4, 2025
The Duke d'Anguien promised to take care of this youth's fortune; and the approbation of a prince, who was the Mars of his time and knew men so well, is the highest elogium that could be given of Diederic. He came to an unhappy end when but young and unmarried.
Grotius's third son, Diederic, began his studies in a very promising manner. Grotius writes to his brother William, August 16, 1630, "I am overjoyed to hear that Diederic's progress even exceeds my hopes. I wish he may continue." His grandfather John Grotius was his tutor. When he came to be old enough to be put to some business, Grotius designed him for an Engineer.
Upon their marriage, Diederic stipulated that Cornet should adopt the surname of Groote: it signifies Great, and is said to have been given to Diederic for some signal service, which he had rendered to his sovereign. All the males and females mentioned in the genealogy of Grotius were of noble extraction.
He learned under the famous Boschius, and came afterwards, in the beginning of 1636, to see his father at Paris. Grotius seemed to be well satisfied with his son at the time this youth had the misfortune to lose his Patron. On hearing of the Duke of Weymar's death Grotius immediately thought of sending Diederic to Marshal Bannier.
Diederic was carried to Tubingen, from thence to Ulm, and confined in a citadel between Ulm and Augsburg: he did not continue there long: immediately on receiving his father's letter, the Duke of Bavaria gave orders that Diederic might be set at liberty, after settling his ransom, which was fixed at a thousand florins.
On the same day he wrote to Salvius, desiring him to recommend Diederic to the Marshal. Whilst Grotius was thus employed in placing his son, Diederic entertained a design of entering into the Dutch service.
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