Lordship of Sinoutskerke and Baarsdorp
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The Lordship of Baarsdorp is a (former) Dutch Lordship situated in the province of Zeeland, in the Netherlands.
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The lordship of Baarsdorp is a Dutch landed estate. Until 1795, a Dutch lordship (Heerlijkheid) was the Dutch version of manorialism; currently, it's an estate on land with a set of remaining manorial rights.
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. The brothers built a castle and a church, which gave the lordship and village of Baarsdorp a more prestigious aura. 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 people but never formally merged. A hundred years later, the castle was demolished after being left empty for two decades. In 1846, the lordship of Baarsdorp was owned by seven people.
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