Adriaan Teding van Berkhout (Hoorn, 1571 or 1572? — The Hague, 13 August 1620) was a Dutch jurist, justice in the Hof van Holland, and politician of the Dutch Republic. He was a friend of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, who tried to warn the latter of his impending arrest before the Trial of Oldenbarnevelt, Grotius and Hogerbeets.
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Personal life
Adriaan was born the son of Hoorn burgomaster Jan Teding van Berkhout and Levina de Huybert. He was educated at a latin school in Leiden and subsequently studied law at Leiden University where he was enrolled as a student under the name Hadrianus Berckhout on 11 February 1588. He received his doctoral law degree from the University of Orléans on 10 April 1595.
He married Geertruid van Gael in Monnikendam in 1597, with whom he had one son (Volkert), and after her death, on 25 May 1604 with Margaretha Duyst van Beresteyn in Delft. With the latter he had the following children: Lidia (who died young), Johan (who was deaf-mute), Paulus, Lydia (who married Govert Brasser, pensionary of Delft), Geertruid (who married Hugo Brasser, baljuw of Haringskerspel), Cornelia (who married lieutenant-admiral Maarten Harpertsz. Tromp), Maria (who married Nicolaas de Bye, pensionary of Monnikendam and later justice in the Hoge Raad van Holland en Zeeland), and Margaretha (who married jonkheer Jan van Egmond van den Nieuburg, schepen of Alkmaar and bewindhebber of the VOC).