Samuel Pallache (Arabic: صامويل آل بالاتش, Shmuel Baylash, Hebrew: 'שמואל פאלאץ, Shmuel Palach, c. 1550 – 4 February 1616) was a Jewish Moroccan merchant, diplomat, and pirate of the Pallache family, who, as envoy, concluded a treaty with the Dutch Republic in 1608. His antecedents fled to Morocco during the Reconquista. He was appointed as an agent under the Saadi Sultan Zidan Abu Maali. Pallache would travel to the newly-independent Dutch Republic to discuss diplomatic terms with the Dutch against their mutual enemy, the Spanish. Pallache died in the Netherlands, brought there due to the intervention of his ally, Maurice of Nassau, whom helped Pallache when he was arrested by the Spanish.
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1550 Fez, Morocco
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1616 (aged 65) The Hague, Netherlands
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