{"id":148639,"date":"2021-07-17T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/aalten-achteruit\/bailiffs-of-the-lordship-of-bredevoort\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T23:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:16:25","slug":"bailiffs-of-the-lordship-of-bredevoort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/bailiffs-of-the-lordship-of-bredevoort\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailiffs of the Lordship of Bredevoort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the Lordship of Bredevoort, the drost represented the sovereign lord or pledge-holder and had administrative, judicial and often military responsibilities. The office changed over the centuries and was regularly exercised by a deputy. Periods of office can therefore overlap in the sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are the drosten and verwalter-drosten<\/em> (acting bailiffs) of the Lordship of Bredevoort<\/a>. The list is based on archival documents, the court book, the Nassau register of offices and E.M. Smilda’s preliminary inventory. Where contemporary records prove only part of a period of office, this is presented as cautiously as possible below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source note:<\/em> offices sometimes overlapped. Evert van Lintelo, for example, is usually described in the court book as richter<\/em> (judge) and in 1520 explicitly as both drost and judge. Johan van Isendoorn appears earlier as hofschulte<\/em>\/stadtholder and court judge; in documents from 1557<\/strong> the court book refers to him directly as \u201cDroste\u201d and \u201cAmptman und Droste\u201d. For Hendrik van Isendoorn, the precise division of office between him and Johan has not yet been established equally directly from these primary records. A year in the table therefore does not automatically mean that someone served under exactly the same title throughout every intervening year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bailiffs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Period<\/th>Name<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1331<\/td>Thidericus de Sulen<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
documented in 1520<\/td>Evert van Lintelo<\/a> (also described as judge elsewhere in these years)<\/em><\/td><\/tr>\n
1526\u20131534<\/td>Jacob ten Starte<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1534\u20131555<\/td>Maarten van Rossum<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
documented in 1557\u20131558<\/td>Johan van Isendoorn<\/a> (earlier hofschulte\/stadtholder and court judge)<\/em><\/td><\/tr>\n
1555\u20131562 according to administrative lists<\/td>Hendrik van Isendoorn<\/a> (the precise division of office with Johan van Isendoorn has not yet been fully established from primary records)<\/em><\/td><\/tr>\n
1563\u20131568<\/td>Jacob van der Capellen<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1571\u20131572<\/td>Jasper van Broeckhuijsen<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
documented in 1573\u20131574<\/td>Jacob van der Capellen<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1577\u20131593<\/td>Pallyck Marckeloeff<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1593\u20131598<\/td>Godfried Gerardi<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1598<\/td>Jurrien van Boeckholt<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1600<\/td>Ernst van der Lawick<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1600\u20131626<\/td>Gooswijn van der Lawick<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1628\u20131632<\/td>Christoffel van der Lawick<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1637<\/td>Arent van Haersolte<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1637\u20131646<\/td>Wilhelm van Haersolte<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1646\u20131661<\/td>Georg Nicolaas van der Lawick<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1661\u20131665<\/td>Gooswijn Wilhelm van der Lawick<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1665\u20131680<\/td>Adolph Hendrik van Ripperda<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1680\u20131685<\/td>Thiman Johan van Lintelo<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1685\u20131725<\/td>Christiaan Karel van Lintelo<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1737\u20131748<\/td>Caspar Anton van Lynden tot de Park<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1749\u20131758<\/td>Hans Willem van Camstra<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1758\u20131795<\/td>Adolph Werner Carel van Pallandt<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

After the end of the lordship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After 1795 the system of government changed substantially. The drost’s old seigneurial position disappeared, and in 1798 the seigneurial administrative rights were formally abolished. Willem Passchen<\/strong>, who is described in sources from the Batavian-French transition period as drost of Bredevoort, therefore does not belong in the same sequence as the bailiffs of the old Lordship. His office is dealt with as part of the transition from the Lordship to the Ambt Bredevoort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acting bailiffs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Period<\/th>Name<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1692\u20131696<\/td>Rutger Keijser<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1703\u20131712<\/td>Diederik Volmer<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1715\u20131726<\/td>Reijnier Jurrien van Coeverden<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1728\u20131735<\/td>Theodor de Lalane du Thay<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1736\u20131746<\/td>Derk Hoppenbrouwer<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1746\u20131751<\/td>Willem Sigismund Hecking<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1751\u20131759<\/td>Benjamin Satink<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1759\u20131768<\/td>Hendrik Arnold Bom<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n
1768\u2013?<\/td>Herman Willem Aberson<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overview of bailiffs and acting bailiffs of the lordship of Bredevoort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199560,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148639\/revisions\/199560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}