A heerlijkheid (a Dutch word; pl. heerlijkheden; also called heerschap; Latin: Dominium) was a landed estate that served as the lowest administrative and
City Town privileges granted District Borculo 1375 HeerlijkheidBorculo Bredevoort 1388 Heerlijkheid Bredevoort Bronkhorst 1482 Landdrostambt van Zutphen
Gisbert II of Bronckhorst-Borculo. Gisbert was the second Lord of Borculo from the House of Brinckhorst. He inherited the heerlijkheid in 1402 from his paternal
Groenlo. Before the 18th century Beltrum was part of the Stad en Heerlijkheid of Borculo. From about 1795 until 1819 it was an independent municipality
Catholic Church on the northern bank of the Berkel. Around 1616 the heerlijkheidBorculo, (until then an autonomous area, where Rekken was a part of) became