Samuel Pallache

Samuel Pallache (c. 1550–1616) was a Moroccan Jewish merchant who served the Saadi sultan Zidan Abu Maali as an envoy to the Dutch Republic. In 1608 he negotiated at The Hague with Prince Maurice of Nassau, and the 1610 Treaty of Friendship and Free Commerce was an early formal treaty between a European and a non-Christian state.

Maurice licensed him to privateer against Portuguese and Spanish shipping. Arrested in England in 1614 after taking a Portuguese ship, he was freed with Maurice's help and died at The Hague in 1616.