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Mook en Middelaar (The Netherlands)
Limburg province
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Mook en Middelaar municipality
Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 8.036; area: 18,82 km². Settlements:
Mook (seat), Middelaar, Molenhoek (part), Plasmolen.
Mook en Middelaar is the northernmost municipality of Limburg province,
squeeezed between the municipalities of Cuyk (Noord-Brabant) and Groesbeek
(Gelderland).
Mook was named by Emperor Henry III in 1018 as a possession of two
convents in Aken (Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen). In 1227 the rights were sold
to the Counts of Gelre. In the 16th century the "schepenbank" (municipal
council?) went over to the Land of Cleve in Germany, later Prussia. c.
1800 it was occupied by the French, who merged it with Middelaar.
Middelaar was a free Imperial Lordship (Rijksheerlijkheid) in the possession
of the van Heumen family. In 1385 Reinoud van Heumen was forced to cede
the area to the Count of Gelre, and it remained in Gelre until the French
occupation, when it was merged with Mook.
In the Netherlands Mook is most known for the "slag op de Mookerhei",
in 1574, where the brothers of Willem van Oranje, Lodewijk and Hendrik
van Nassau were killed by the Spaniards, together with a large part of
their army. This battle is the reason for