Jan Willem Janssens

Jonkheer
Jan Willem Janssens
GCMWO
Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens GCMWO
	Portrait by Jan Willem Pieneman.
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
	In office; 15 May – 18 September 1811
Monarch	Napoleon Bonaparte
Preceded by	Herman Willem Daendels
Succeeded by	Abolished ; Robert Rollo Gillespie ; Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen ; under British rule
Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony
	In office; 1803–1806
Preceded by	Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
Succeeded by	David Baird (British administration)
Personal details
Born	12 October 1762; Nijmegen, Guelders, Dutch Republic
Died	23 May 1838 (aged 75); The Hague, Netherlands
Spouses	; Anna Barbara Balneavis (m. 1786; died 1801) Sara Louisa Hartsen; (m. 1822)
Children	with Anna Barbara Balneavis Wilhelmina Anna Janssens (daughter); Henri Janssens (son); Adriana Carolina Janssens (daughter); Jan Willem Janssens jr.(son); with Sara Louisa Hartsen Henri Guillaume Charles Louis Janssens (son);
Parents	Johan Jacob Janssens (father); Adriana Rees (mother);

Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens GCMWO (12 October 1762 – 23 May 1838) was a Dutch nobleman, soldier and statesman who served both as the governor of the Dutch Cape Colony and governor-general of the Dutch East Indies.

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