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Herpen (The Netherlands)

Oss municipality, Noord-Brabant province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
Adopted 1 Feb 2003

Herpen village
Herpen CoA

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Herpen village

Herpen is a former municipality in Noord-Brabant province, since 1941 part of Ravestein, which in its turn was absorbed by Oss in 2003.
Herpen village flag: five stripes of white and red, proportioned 2:1:2:1:2; on the white stripes eight red merlettes, placed 3,2,3
Adopted 1 Feb 2003

The old municipality didn't have arms; it was discussed in 1940 with the High Council of Nobility, which adviced against it pending the merger into Ravenstein. There is a Herpen CoA in the Koffie Hag album, erroneously based on the Cuijck arms (or instead of argent).
The Herpen arms is based on the van Herpen family, a branch of the Cuijck family. Later the Lordship of Herpen was renamed "Land van Ravenstein", after the seat, and came in 1397 in the possession of the Dukes of Kleef/Cleve, in 1630 to Pfalz-Neuburg; occupied by the French in 1794, in 1800 awarded to the "Bataafsche Republiek". The "Land of Ravenstein" consisted of: Ravenstein (seat), Uden, Bedaf, Volkel, Boekel, Zeeland (the village in N.Brabant), Velp, Reek, Herpen, and Schaijk.
Source: communication by Marcel van Westerhoven.
Van Goor's Aardrijkskundig Woordenboek van Nederland, 1968</