ail and welcome to the Brunsting Website which is, I believe, the first site that is dedicated to the past, present, and future members of the Brunsting family.

he Brunsting family comes from a small town that is coincidentally named Brunsting, near the city of Beilen in the province of Drenthe. Drenthe is a province in the north of the Netherlands. It used to be a part of the bishopric of Utrecht, but it became independant. It has not been a separate county or duchy as most of the other Dutch provinces, but it retained the status of landschap, a kind of self-governing area. Drenthe joined the Utrecht Union, but as a landschap, it did not have voting right in the republican parliament (Staten-Generaal). It became a province in the year of 1805. The arms of the province of Drenthe are derived from the seal of the Landschap Drenthe, which depicted the same composition since 1262.

he Drenthe Coat of Arms is described as such:

"Or seated on a throne of the same, the Virgin Mary in a mantle azure over a robe gules, wearing a crown composed of three fleur-de-lys or; in the right hand a sceptre or with a fleur-de-lys finial, on the left knee the Christ-child in a robe argent. The shield crested by a coronet of four pearls between five leaves and three diadems or, lined gules. Supporters: two lions rampant or, armed and langued gules."

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