In the Late Middle Ages, a landdrost, drost, or drossaard (bailiff) was an official who represented the sovereign lord in a specific area. Their duties included maintaining public order, legislation, the administration of justice, and the defence of the assigned territory. During the French period, the term landdrost was introduced for a Dutch administrative official who governed a specific region.
Below are chronological overviews of the bailiffs and the acting bailiffs of the Lordship of Bredevoort, respectively.
Bailiffs
| Period | Name |
|---|---|
| 1331 | Thidericus de Sulen |
| 1519-1526 | Evert van Lintelo |
| 1526-1534 | Jacob ten Starte |
| 1534-1555 | Maarten van Rossum |
| 1548-1550 | Johan van Isendoorn |
| 1555-1562 | Hendrik van Isendoorn |
| 1567-1568 | Jacob van der Capellen |
| 1571-1572 | Jasper van Broeckhuijsen |
| 1572-1576 | Jacob van der Capellen |
| 1577-1593 | Pallyck Marckeloeff |
| 1593-1598 | Godfried Gerardi |
| 1598 | Jurrien van Boeckholt |
| 1600 | Ernst van der Lawick |
| 1600-1626 | Gooswijn van der Lawick |
| 1628-1632 | Christoffel van der Lawick |
| 1637 | Arent van Haersolte |
| 1637-1646 | Wilhelm van Haersolte |
| 1646-1661 | Georg Nicolaas van der Lawick |
| 1661-1665 | Gooswijn Wilhelm van der Lawick |
| 1665-1680 | Adolph Hendrik van Ripperda |
| 1680-1685 | Thiman Johan van Lintelo |
| 1685-1725 | Christiaan Karel van Lintelo |
| 1737-1748 | Caspar Anton van Lynden tot de Park |
| 1749-1758 | Hans Willem van Camstra |
| 1758-1795 | Adolph Werner Carel van Pallandt |
| 1806-1810 | Willem Passchen |
Acting Bailiffs
| Period | Name |
|---|---|
| 1692-1696 | Rutger Keijser |
| 1703-1712 | Diederik Volmer |
| 1715-1726 | Reijnier Jurrien van Coeverden |
| 1728-1735 | Theodor de Lalane du Thay |
| 1736-1746 | Derk Hoppenbrouwer |
| 1746-1751 | Willem Sigismund Hecking |
| 1751-1759 | Benjamin Satink |
| 1759-1768 | Hendrik Arnold Bom |
| 1768–? | Herman Willem Aberson |
Sources
- E.M. Smilda, Voorlopige lijst van namen van bestuursambtenaren in de voormalige heerlijkheid Bredevoort (Provisional list of names of administrative officials in the former lordship of Bredevoort), published in: Jaarboek Archief van de Graafschap 1980-1981, pp. 68-70, ISBN 906011-256-3.
- National Archives, Archives of the Nassau Domain Council, inv. no. 685 (Official Record Book / Ambtboek).
- Dr. L. Schmitz: Urkunden des fürstlich Salm-Salm’schen Archives in Anholt, Münster 1902
- Wikipedia
