Beelaerts van Blokland
Encyclopedia
Beelaerts van Blokland is an old Dutch
patrician family. The family came originally from the Dutch city Dordrecht. The family belongs to the Dutch nobility
since 1815 with the title of jonkheer
or jonkvrouw.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
patrician family. The family came originally from the Dutch city Dordrecht. The family belongs to the Dutch nobility
Nobility
Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...
since 1815 with the title of jonkheer
Jonkheer
Jonkheer is a Dutch honorific of nobility.-Honorific of nobility:"Jonkheer" or "Jonkvrouw" is literally translated as "young lord" or "young lady". In medieval times such a person was a young and unmarried son or daughter of a high ranking knight or nobleman...
or jonkvrouw.