Pieter Cnoll, also Pieter Knoll (1672), was a Dutchman who became Director General in Batavia. He married Cornelia van Nijenroode

Cornelia van Nijenroode

Cornelia van Nijenroode , was a Dutch merchant in the Dutch East Indies, famous for her conflict with her second spouse. She is the subject of a novel, Bitters bruid by Leonard Blussé....

, an Indo Eurasian

Eurasian (mixed ancestry)

The word Eurasian refers to people of mixed Asian and European ancestry. It was originally coined in 19th-century British India to refer to Anglo-Indians of mixed British and Indian descent....

 who was the daughter of Cornelis van Nieuwroode (also Cornelis van Nijenroode, former VOC Opperhoofden in Japan

VOC Opperhoofden in Japan

VOC Opperhoofden in Japan were the chief traders of the Dutch East India Company in Japan during the period of the Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Edo period.Opperhoofd is a Dutch word which literally means 'supreme head[man]'...

 in 1623-1631) with a Japanese woman. His family was depicted in a painting by Jacob Coeman.

Cnoll and Cornelia had 10 children, only one of whom, a boy, survived to adulthood. When Cnoll died in 1672, he left full possession of his wealth to his wife Cornelia.

Cornelia remarried in 1675 at the age of 46, this time with an Englishman named John Bitter, but the marriage was unhappy and she filed for divorce. She finally died in 1692 in Holland, where she was advocating for the divorce.