Lordship of Sinoutskerke


The Lordship of Sinoutskerke is a dutch landed estate situated in the Zeeland, in the Netherlands.
Until 1795 The Lordship of Sinoutskerke was part of a district which also included the Lordship of Baarsdorp and 's-Heer Abtskerke. Until that year a dutch lordship was the dutch version of manorialism, nowadays it's an estate in land with a set of remaining manorial rights.
Little is known about the early history of the Lordship. From the fifteenth century, the Lordship of Sinoutskerke and the Lordship Baarsdorp share the same owner. In many ancient writings, therefore, the lordships are referred to as the Lordship of Sinoutskerke and Baarsdorp. This combined lordship used the coat of arms of the Lordship of Baarsdorp, as did the later municipality of Sinoutskerke and Baarsdorp. In the year 1553 Lady Jacoba of Burgundy became Lady of Sinoutskerke, at the death of her brother, Maximilian of Burgundy.
Nowadays the family of Huykelom van de Pas owns the Lordship of Sinoutskerke, as well as the Lordship of Baarsdorp.
Up until today the manorial rights are still being exerted by the van Huykelom van de Pas Family Association. Sinoutskerke is one of the very few remaining lordships in the Netherlands with living rights attached to it. The remaining feudal rights are registered as immaterial cultural heritage. Among those rights are fishing rights, sheep drifting and rights to plant trees etc on the sides of the roads.