Prisches
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Prisches
|commune status = Commune
|image = Prisches.jpg
|caption = The church in Prisches
|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Prisches (Nord).svg
|arrondissement = Avesnes-sur-Helpe
|canton = Avesnes-sur-Helpe
|INSEE = 59474
|postal code = 59550
|term = 2020–2026
|intercommunality = Cœur de l'Avesnois
|coordinates = {{coord|50.0808|3.7675|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m =
|elevation min m = 153
|elevation max m = 202
|area km2 = 23.11
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
Prisches ({{IPA|fr|pʁiʃ}}) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/59474-prisches INSEE commune file]
History
Catharina Trico, born at Prisches (then part of the Spanish Netherlands) emigrated in the early 17th Century to Amsterdam. On 13 January 1624, at the age of 18, she married a fellow Walloon immigrant, Joris Raparlie from Valenciennes, the record of their marriage surviving in Amsterdam archives. The two of them soon afterwards boarded a Dutch ship bound for North America and were among the founders and original inhabitants of New Amsterdam - which eventually became the present New York City. Further surviving documents indicate that Catharina and Joris had eleven children, that he died in 1662 but that she was still alive in 1680 - when an English missionary encountered her on Long Island as an old matriarch with 145 descendants. Genealogists estimate that more than a million people now living, in the US and elsewhere, can trace their descent to her.The documents telling the story of Catharina Trico and Joris Raparlie are described in detail by Russell Shorto in "Amsterdam, A History of the World's Most Liberal City", Doubleday, 2013, Ch.7
Heraldry
{{Blazon-arms
| img1=Blason ville fr Prisches (Nord).svg
| legend1=Arms of Prisches
| text=The arms of Prisches are blazoned :
{{SharedArms|Az.fess.Or}}
}}
See also
References
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{{Commons category|Prisches}}
{{Nord communes}}
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Category:Communes of Nord (French department)
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