Prisches

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Prisches
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The church in Prisches
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Coat of arms
Location of Prisches
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Prisches
Coordinates: 50°04′51″N3°46′03″E / 50.0808°N 3.7675°E / 50.0808; 3.7675 Coordinates: 50°04′51″N3°46′03″E / 50.0808°N 3.7675°E / 50.0808; 3.7675
Country France
Region Hauts-de-France
Department Nord
Arrondissement Avesnes-sur-Helpe
Canton Avesnes-sur-Helpe
Intercommunality Cœur de l'Avesnois
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Jean-Claude Fovez [1]
Area
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23.11 km2 (8.92 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2018) [2]
1,058
  Density46/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
59474 /59550
Elevation153–202 m (502–663 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Prisches is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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History

Catharina Trico, born at Prisches (then part of the Spanish Netherlands) emigrated in the early 17th Century to Amsterdam. On January 13, 1624, she - 18 years old at the time - married a fellow Walloon immigrant, Joris Raparlie from Valenciennes, the record of their marriage surviving in Amsterdam archives. The two of them soon afterwards boarded a Dutch ship bound for North America and were among the founders and original inhabitants of New Amsterdam - which eventually became the present New York City. Further surviving documents indicate that Catharina and Joris had eleven children, that he died in 1662 but that she was still alive in 1680 - when an English missionary encountered her on Long Island as an old matriarch with 145 descendants. Genealogists estimate that more than a million people now living, in the US and elsewhere, can trace their descent to her. [3]

Heraldry

Arms of Prisches Blason ville fr Prisches (Nord).svg
Arms of Prisches
The arms of Prisches are blazoned  :

Azure, a fess Or. (Beaurepaire-sur-Sambre, Borre, Morbecque, Prisches, Cazilhac and Aubière use the same arms.)

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References

  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
  3. The documents telling the story of Catharina Trico and Joris Raparlie are described in detail by Russell Shorto in "Amsterdam, A History of the World's Most Liberal City", Doubleday, 2013, Ch.7