Van Amstel family

van Amstel
family
Wapen Van Amstel
Country Netherlands
Founded12th century
FounderWolfgerus van Amstel
TitlesLords of Amestelle, knights
The surviving keep of the Van Amstel castle at IJsselstein.

The van Amstel family (Dutch: Heren van Amstel) was an influential dynasty in the medieval Netherlands from the twelfth until the fourteenth century. The family developed the Amstelland and held the stewardship in the ecclesiastical districts in the northwest of the Nedersticht (largely the current province) of Utrecht, first in the name of the bishop of Utrecht and later the count of Holland.