Editing Constantijn Huygens (section)

==Later career and French knighthood==
[[Image:Adriaen Hanneman - Constantijn Huygens and his-five-children.png|thumb|right|Huygens and his children by [[Adriaen Hanneman]], [[Mauritshuis]], The Hague]]
Huygens started a successful career despite his grief over the death of his wife (1638). In 1630 he was appointed to the Council and Exchequer, managing the estate of the [[House of Orange|Orange family]]. This job provided him with an income of about 1000 [[Dutch gulden|florins]] a year. In that same year he bought the [[heerlijkheid]] [[Zuilichem]] and became known as '''Lord of Zuilichem''' (in Dutch: Heer van Zuilichem).<ref>[http://www.nationalgallery.ie/en/Conservation/Featured_Projects/Battle_Of_Boyne/Project_Blog/Blog13_30Sept.aspx The Lord of Zuilichem] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206105238/http://www.nationalgallery.ie/en/Conservation/Featured_Projects/Battle_Of_Boyne/Project_Blog/Blog13_30Sept.aspx |date=2017-02-06 }} - website of the National Gallery of Ireland</ref><ref>[http://www.essentialvermeer.com/history/huygens.html#.WJfHs1XhDIU Constantijn Huygens: Lord of Zuilichem] - website of Essential Vermeer</ref> In 1632, [[Louis XIII of France]] - the protector of the famous exiled jurist [[Hugo Grotius]] - appointed him as Knight of the [[Order of Saint-Michel]]. In 1643 Huygens was granted the honor of displaying a golden lily on a blue field in his coat of arms.

In 1634 Huygens received from Prince Frederick Henry a piece of property in The Hague on the north side of the [[Binnenhof]]. The land was near the property of a good friend of Huygens, [[Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen|Count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen]], who built his house, the [[Mauritshuis]], around the same time and using the same architect, Huygens' friend [[Jacob van Campen]].

===Correspondence===
Aside from his ''membership'' in the Muiderkring (which was not as formerly supposed, an official club), at the start of the 1630s he was also in touch with [[René Descartes]],<ref name=":0">Sanford Budick, “Descartes’s Cogito, Kant’s Sublime, and Rembrandt’s Philosophers: Cultural Transmission as Occasion for Freedom,” from A Journal of Literary History (Washington: Modern Language Quarterly, 1997), 38.</ref> with [[Rembrandt]],<ref name=":0" /> and the painter [[Jan Lievens]]. He became friends with [[John Donne]],<ref name=EB1911/> and translated his poems into Dutch. He was unable to write poetry for months because of his anguish over his wife's death, but eventually he composed, inspired by [[Petrarch]], the sonnet ''Op de dood van Sterre'' (On the death of Sterre), which was well received. He added the poem to his ''Dagh-werck'', which he left unfinished: the day he has described has not ended yet, but his Sterre is already dead. After sending the unfinished work to different friends for approval, he eventually published it in 1658 as part of his ''Koren-bloemen''.

Huygens also corresponded with [[Margaret Croft]] and [[Elizabeth Dudley, Countess of Löwenstein]], ladies in waiting to [[Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia]], and [[Mary Woodhouse]], a friend made in London in 1622.<ref>Lisa Jardine, [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/temptation-in-the-archives ''Temptation in the Archives'' (UCL: London, 2015)], pp. 1-17.</ref>