Godert de Ginkel (14 June 1644 – 11 February 1703) was a Dutch general who became Earl of Athlone as a reward for his service in the Williamite War in Ireland.
Biography[]
Godert de Ginkel was born in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1644, and he served in the Dutch Army during the Franco-Dutch War, becoming a colonel. He became a major-general in 1675 and a lieutenant-general in 1683, and he accompanied Prince William of Orange to England in 1688 to lead the Glorious Revolution. He commanded a body of Dutch cavalry at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and he was entrusted with command in Ireland after William left for the continent amid the War of the Grand Alliance. After decisively defeating the Jacobites at the 1691 Battle of Aughrim, Ginkel served in the Low Countries and in the War of the Spanish Succession, and he died in 1703.