title: Pieter Beelaerts van Blokland
text: # Pieter Beelaerts van Blokland
  
  Jonkheer Pieter Adriaan Cornelis Beelaerts van Blokland (8 December 1932 – 22 September 2021) was a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
  
  He was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the First Van Agt cabinet from 1977 to 1981. In 1981, he was an MP. Beelaerts van Blokland was mayor of Wolphaartsdijk, Vianen, Amstelveen, Apeldoorn, and Hengelo. He was also Queen's Commissioner of the Province of Utrecht from 1985 to 1998.
  
  ## Decorations
  
  Honours :
  
  | Ribbon bar | Honour | Country | Date | Comment |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion | Netherlands | 26 October 1981 | |
  | | Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau | Netherlands | 1 January 1998 | Elevated from Commander (30 April 1985) |
  