Alberto de Launay

In the seventeenth century, members of the Suasso (Suaço, Suasco) family, bankers originally from Spain, lived in Holland and England. Antonio (Isaac) Lopez Suasso lived in The Hague during the second half of the seventeenth century and was a major shareholder in the West India Company. In 1676, Charles II recognized Suasso’s services to the Spanish Crown, granting him an estate and making him a baron, even though he was a Jew. This document, written by Alberto de Launay, a gentleman of the Spanish royal court, depicts Suasso’s coat of arms and registers the family in the records of Spanish nobility. Suasso also gave financial support to the House of Orange.