• Wiltenburg is a historic municipality and former free manor (vrije heerlijkheid) in the Dutch province of South Holland, on the southeastern edge of the...
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    Ravenstein, Cuijk and Gemert areas. In 1663 the boundary dispute with the Vrije Heerlijkheid Gemert was settled. In 1729, a similar problem with Uden was settled...
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  • The Free or High Lordship of Zuid-Polsbroek (Dutch: "vrije of hoge heerlijkheid") was a type of local jurisdiction with many rights. It's now part of Polsbroek...
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    and Purmerland and after 1618 Purmerland and Ilpendam (Dutch: "vrije of hoge heerlijkheid") was a type of local jurisdiction with many rights. As a free...
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    1610 he bought the Free and high fief of Zuid-Polsbroek (hoge of vrije heerlijkheid Zuid-Polsbroek) for himself and his family from Charles de Ligne,...
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    jurisdictions, with the exception of the Calvinistic Republic, known as “Vrije heerlijkheid” (literally "free manor") an autonomous area in the Calvinistic Republic...
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    was a lage heerlijkheid or schoutambt, the lowest category of local jurisdictions, while Zuid-Polsbroek was a vrije en hoge heerlijkheid (Free and high...
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    (person). During the middle ages until 1795, Jaarsveld was a vrije en hoge heerlijkheid. As a free a high fief, Jaarsveld was an independent of the provinces...
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  • fishing tackle, and so rich in her own right that she was able to buy the Heerlijkheid of Waalsdorp. Lord of Waalsdorp was therefore the first aristocratic...
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    heath and some other lands near Heeze. This was later known as the Vrije Grond Heerlijkheid Heeze. Dirk Loef is said to have married Elisabeth of Montigny...
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    30 August 2024. M.J. van Lennep, 'Wapen en Vlag van Ter Schelling', De Vrije Fries 45 (1962), pp. 122-129 (pdf) VVV Texel (2009). "Cultuur De gemeentevlag"...
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