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Also known as regency, regentschap

thumb|Vroedschap of Utrecht, 1786.

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thumb|Vroedschap of Utrecht, 1786.

The vroedschap () was the name for the (all male) city council in the early modern Netherlands; the member of such a council was called a vroedman, literally a "wise man". An honorific title of the vroedschap was the vroede vaderen, the "wise fathers"

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