The Lordship of Baarsdorp is a (former) Dutch Lordship situated in the province of Zeeland, in the Netherlands.
The Lordship of Baarsdorp is a (former) Dutch Lordship situated in the province of Zeeland, in the Netherlands.
The lordship of Baarsdorp, is a Dutch landed estate. Until 1795 a Dutch lordship (Heerlijkheid) was the Dutch version of manorialism, nowadays it's an estate in land with a set of remaining manorial rights. [1]
The lordship of Baarsdorp was founded between 1206 and 1270, the first lords were Lord Petrus de Barsdorpe and his brother, Lord Dankert de Barsdorpe. The de Barsdorpe brothers were members of the Dutch noble family van Borssele, who named themselves after the lordship. [2] The brothers built a castle and a church, which gave the lordship and village of Baarsdorp a more prestigious aura. [3] The lordship of Baarsdorp remained in this family for the next 200 years, until in the fifteenth century the noble family van de Waerde became the owners. From then on the lordships of Baarsdorp and Sinoutskerke were owned by the same persons but never formally merged. [4] A hundred years later the castle was demolished after it was left empty for two decades. In 1846 the lordship of Baarsdorp was owned by 7 people. [5]
Up until today the manorial rights are still being exerted by the van Huykelom van de Pas family, who are the current owners of the lordship.Baarsdorp is one of the very few remaining lordships in the Netherlands with existingrights attached to it. Among those rights are fishing rights, sheep drifting and rights to plant trees etc. on the sides of the roads. M.J. van Huykelom van de Pas also uses the title "Lady of Baarsdorp". [6]
The coat of arms of the lordship of Baarsdorp is mentioned in 1696 in Mattheus Smallegange's “Cronyk van Zeeland” (Chronicle of Zeeland). According to Smallegange, the coat of arms of the lordship of Baarsdorp initially were the coat of arms of a branch of the van Borssele family, and adopted by the lordship after this family died out. [7] Similar coat of arms were later also used by the municipality of Sinoutskerke and Baarsdorp, with permission of the Dutch High Council of Nobility. [8]
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