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Seignory of Frisia

The Seignory of Frisia or Seignory of Friesland (West Frisian: Hearlikheid Fryslân, Dutch: Heerlijkheid Friesland) was a feudal dominion in the Netherlands. It was formed in 1498 by King Maximilian I and reformed in 1524 when Emperor Charles V conquered Frisia.

Seignory of Frisia
Heerlijkheid Friesland (Dutch)
Hearlikheid Fryslân (West Frisian)

State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1648)
part of the Habsburg Netherlands (1524–1581)
part of the Dutch Republic (from 1581)

Leeuwarden

Old Frisian, West Frisian, Dutch Low Saxon

Catholic Church Protestantism

Feudal monarchy

Middle Ages

1498

1579

1581

1795

Count of Buren, 1515–1518

Floris van Egmond

1518–1521

Willem van Roggendorff

1522 (Frisian rebel)

Jancko Douwama

1521–1540

Georg Schenck van Toutenburg

Count of Buren, 1540–1548

Maximiliaan van Egmond

Count of Arenberg, 1559–1568

Jean de Ligne

Count of Megen, 1568–1572

Charles de Brimeu

Lord of Hierges, 1572–1574

Gillis van Berlaymont

1574–1576 (according to some sources 1572–1576)

Caspar de Robles

Count Rennenberg, 1576–1581 (deposed in 1580)

George van Lalaing

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