David Pallache

David Pallache (1598–1650) was born in Fez, Morocco, one of five sons of Joseph Pallache and nephews of Samuel Pallache. He came from the Sephardic Pallache family.{{cite web

| title = Amsterdam - Burials of the Portuguese Israelite Congregation - Palache, David

| publisher = Dutch Jewry

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| accessdate = 20 October 2016

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{{cite web

| title = Amsterdam - Burials of the Portuguese Israelite Congregation - Archive # 19178 Palache, David

| publisher = Dutch Jewry

| url = http://www.dutchjewry.org/P.I.G./image/01917801.jpg

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| accessdate = 20 October 2016}}

{{cite web

| title = Amsterdam - Burials of the Portuguese Israelite Congregation - Image Palache, David

| publisher = Dutch Jewry

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| accessdate = 20 October 2016}}

{{cite book

| title = Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek

| publisher = Sijthoff

| pages = 422

| url = http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/nnbw/#source=5&page=218&accessor=accessor_index&size=778&view=imagePane

| date = 1911

| accessdate = 26 September 2016}}

Career

Pallache worked with his father in trading activities and as an agent of Moroccan state at the time. When his father traveled and stayed in Morocco, David served as his deputy in the Netherlands. In 1621, he helped negotiate a peace treaty for Morocco with France. From 1630 onwards, he took over from his brother Abraham as unofficial Dutch consul in Safi, Morocco. In 1634, apparently to clear some debts, he became involved commercially with Michael Spinoza (father of philosopher Baruch Spinoza).

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He also served as agent to France, where in 1634 when Louis XIII of France demanded his father's extradition, after which David succeeded him in 1637.

Personal and death

The scholarly biography A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe did not find intermarriage between the Pallache brothers or sons and members of the Portuguese Sephardic community in the Netherlands. In fact, it documents the contrary, e.g., that sons Isaac and Joshua did not go make such marriages. "It seems significant that no male member of the Pallache family ever married a woman from the Portuguese community... it is surely significant that neither Samuel nor any of his heirs were ever to marry into the great trading families of 'the Portuguese nation'."

{{cite book

| first1 = Mercedes

| last1 = García-Arenal

| first2 = Gerard

| last2 = Wiegers

| publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press

| title = A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe

| pages = 12 (background, surname), 101–127 (descendants)

| url = https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/man-three-worlds

| date = 2007| doi = 10.1353/book.14092

| isbn = 9780801895838

}} In September 2016, however, two 1643 marriage certificates were discovered for David Pallache and Judith Lindo of Antwerp, daughter of Ester Lindo{{cite web

| title = Amsterdam - Traditional Sephardic marriages - David Palache and Judith Lindo

| publisher = Dutch Jewry

| url = http://www.dutchjewry.org/phpr/amsterdam/tim_sephard_marriages/amsterdam_tim_sephard_marriages_view.php?editid1=4108

| date =

| accessdate = 8 September 2016

| archive-date = 18 January 2017

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| title = Amsterdam - Traditional Sephardic marriages - David Palache and Judith Lindo

| publisher = Dutch Jewry

| url = http://www.dutchjewry.org/phpr/amsterdam/tim_sephard_marriages/amsterdam_tim_sephard_marriages_view.php?editid1=4109

| date =

| accessdate = 8 September 2016

| archive-date = 18 January 2017

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170118094552/https://www.dutchjewry.org/phpr/amsterdam/tim_sephard_marriages/amsterdam_tim_sephard_marriages_view.php?editid1=4109

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}} Death details for David Pallache also confirm the marriage.

{{cite web

| title = Begraafplaats Ouderkerk a/d Amstel - Palache, David

| publisher = Dutch Jewry

| url = http://www.dutchjewry.org/P.I.G./image/01917801.jpg

| date =

| accessdate = 8 September 2016}} Further, three years later, in 1646, Samuel Pallache, nephew of David, married Abigail (born 1622), sister of Judith Lindo.{{cite web

| title = Amsterdam - Traditional Sephardic marriages - David Palache and Judith Lindo

| publisher = Dutch Jewry

| url = http://www.dutchjewry.org/phpr/amsterdam/tim_sephard_marriages/amsterdam_tim_sephard_marriages_view.php?editid1=3770

| date =

| accessdate = 8 September 2016

| archive-date = 16 September 2016

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160916210835/http://www.dutchjewry.org/phpr/amsterdam/tim_sephard_marriages/amsterdam_tim_sephard_marriages_view.php?editid1=3770

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He died in Amsterdam in 1650 and was buried in Ouderkerk in the family grave.