While digging in the archives and contacting people several coat of arms of the van Dort families came up.
Because the right to carry arms is a privilege attached to a certain branch of a family, a genealogy must proof a family relationship, before you can claim a certain coat of arms.
Below are 10 different coats of arms attributed to the families van Dort.
Coat of arms of
1. The family van Dort from Delft
2. The family van Dort from Colombo
3. The family van Dort-Kroon
4. The family von Dort from Hamburg
5. The family van Dorth from Beesd
6. The family van Dorth from Sluis
7. The family van Dorth van ‘s Hertogenbosch en Bergen op Zoom (patricier)
8. Maria van Dorth
9. Sibella van Dorth
10. Unknown, end 17th century
The coat of arms belongs to Maria van Dorth, daughter of Johan van Dorth and Kornelia Ottens van den Tympel van Slingelandt. The coat is mentioned in the book Armorial General from J.B. Rietstap (1884-1887), but with scarce details. The collection Musschart provided more details, namely her name, the year 1580 and the name van Nispen. It's from her grave in the Grote Kerk van Dordrecht. She died 1 December 1580 and was burried alongside her husband (Kornelis van Nispen Gerardsz). She was from an influential family, her grandfather Otto van den Tympel van Slingelandt was schepen in Dordrecht in 1548. Both the family Van Slingelandt van den Tympel and the family van Nispen were influential patrician families from Dordrecht.
