Montfoort () is a municipality and a city in the

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, in the province of

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...

. Montfoort received

city rights Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the traditio ...

in 1329.

Population centres

The municipality of Montfoort consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts:

Topography

''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Montfoort, June 2015''

Notable people

Jan III van Montfoort Jan III van Montfoort (or Johan van Montfoort), (c. 1448 – 28 March 1522) was Viscount of Montfoort, Lord of Zuid-Polsbroek, Lord of Purmerend-Purmerland, and a leader of the Hook Party in the Bishopric of Utrecht. He was the son of Henry ...

(ca.1448 – 1522) a leader of the Hook Party in the

Bishopric of Utrecht The Bishopric of Utrecht ( nl, Sticht Utrecht) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, in the present-day Netherlands. From 1024 to 1528, as one of the prince-bishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire, it w ...

Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort, Anthonie van Blocklandt or Anthonie van Montfoort (1533 or 1534 - 18 October 1583) was a Dutch painter. Life He was born in Montfoort, where his father was at one time mayor. He went to learn under Hendrick Sw ...

(1533 or 1534 - 1583) a Dutch painter *

Isbrand van Diemerbroeck Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (also Ijsbrand or Ysbrand) (13 December 1609 – 16 November 1674) was a Dutch physician, anatomist, and professor. Biography Isbrand van Diemrbroeck was born in Montfoort in 1609. He studied first in Utrecht, and then ...

(1609–1674) a Dutch physician, anatomist and professor *

Matthew Maty Matthew Maty (17 May 1718 – 2 July 1776), originally Matthieu Maty, was a Dutch physician and writer of Huguenot background, and after migration to England secretary of the Royal Society and the second principal librarian of the British Muse ...

(1718–1776) a physician and writer, secretary of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

and librarian of the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 37, Maty, Matthew
retrieved 20 December 2019 *

Mark van Eldik Mark van Eldik (born 1967) is a Dutch rally driver, who scored World Rally Championship points on the 2010 Rallye Deutschland with a ninth-place finish. Career Van Eldik began rallying in 2002, competing in Dutch national events. In 2005 he mad ...

(born 1967) a Dutch rally driver

Gallery

File:Montfoort Oude Stadhuis.jpg, Old town hall of Montfoort File:Montfoort Utrecht with the still working flourmill "de Valk" at 18 May 2013 - panoramio.jpg, Montfoort Utrecht with the still working flourmill File:De Hoogstraat de oudste en belangrijkste straat van Montfoort..JPG, De Hoogstraat de oudste en belangrijkste straat van Montfoort File:Stadsgezicht Montfoort.JPG, View to Montfoort File:Montfoort Montfoort, kerk Johannes de Doper RM512115 IMG 0279 2021-08-05 17.25.jpg, Montfoort, church: kerk Johannes de Doper File:Montfoort, de Montfoortse Vaart vanaf de IJsselkade IMG 9256 2019-04-20 12.26.jpg, Lock: schutsluis Montfoortse Vaart File:Kasteel Montfoort Panorama 7.JPG,

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