The Free or high Lordship of Purmerend and Purmerland and after 1618 Purmerland and Ilpendam was a type of local jurisdiction with many rights.
Count Lamoraal van Egmont
Frans Banning Cocq (with a red sash) in Rembrandt's Night Watch
Pieter de Graeff by Caspar Netscher, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (1663)
Ilpenstein Castle
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Ilpenstein Castle was a castle of the Free and High Lordship of Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam, located in Ilpendam in the north of Amsterdam.
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Ilpenstein Castle (second half 19th century)