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 Griep, Grip,
Grijp and Gryp -- four different ways to write the
same name -- are names that can be found
especially in the countries around the North Sea
and the Baltic Sea. This is also the region where
the mythological Griffin
bird
("grijp" in Dutch) is often used as
an heraldic symbol.These
facts raise questions like: does this name have a
common origin and meaning, and can some of the
families that carry these names be related? This
hasn't to be so unlikely at all. From the 14th
century on, shipping and trade has been quite
intense between the countries of the North
and the Baltic Seas.
> This
website has been seeking to answer the questions that are
stated above,
and
has been active from 2000-2022. For more information: contact jan.griep@planet.nl.
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Griep
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- In THE
NETHERLANDS,
the name Griep is mentioned for the first time in 1468. Most Grieps that now live in
the Netherlands originates from Jan
Adriaenszoon Griep, born in 1666 in the
province of Zeeland.
Besides them, there is also a much
smaller Griep-family from the
Twenthe
region.
- In GERMANY
the name Griep is mentioned for the first
time in 1539, when Carsten Griep (also
written as Grip or Gryp) was mayor of
Kiel in Holstein.
In 1648 it appears in the part of Pomerania
that is now Polish, and later on also in
Posen(Poznan). The name Griep also
can be found in the Emsland
and Altmark
regions, Ostfriesland, and generally in
the regions along the North and the
Baltic Seas.
- In NORWAY
a census was held in 1801. The name Griep
appeared in the records of the
communities Bergen and Voss.
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Grijp - Gryp
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-
 As
far back as 1216, the name Grijp was
noted in the THE
NETHERLANDS.
In that year a man by the name of
Arnoldus Grijp appears in Twenthe
as a witness in an official document.
From 1434 on, the name Grijp also appears
in the western province of Holland and in
1476 Nikolaas Grijp founded the village
of Grijpskerk in the province of Groningen.
In 1577 a man by the name of Johannes
Grijp appears in a registry of
life-annuities, in the city of Goes in Zeeland.
- In Flanders,
now a part of BELGIUM
but in those days a province of the 'The
Netherlands', the name Grijp is first
noted in 1382: Gillis Grijp at Dentergem.
Around 1570 north and south of the Netherlands became
separated.
In later centuries Gryp's immigrated
to the USA.
- In GERMANY
the name, written as Gryp, first appeared
in 1334, when Bernardus Gryp is a
chaplain in Vreden. In
1415, the daughter of the knight Arend
Gryp sold her estate at Calveslage. In
Nordhorn and also elswhere
in the
countship of Bentheim, form
the 16th century families by the name Grijp are living. Around
1600, Hans Grijp comes from Ostfriesland,
and in 1693 Haico Gryp from Ostfriesland
became a student at Franeker.
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Grip - Gripp
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- Arnoldus Grijp, mentioned
above, is also noted in the year 1207 in THE
NETHERLANDS. At
that occasion, his name was then written
as Grip.
 Bo
Jonsson Grip, in
SWEDEN,
builded Gripsholm Castle in the year
1380. Other Swedish families by the name
Grip live in the regions Morkala and
Uppland.
- From 1689 on there are
also Grip's in FINLAND.
Probably the name was introduced there by
Swedish soldiers.
- In the 1801 census in
Norway, the name Griep was also often
written as Grip. That name still can be
found in NORWAY.
- Coincidence or not, in
FRANCE
the name Grip appears mostly in
Normandy, a region that has for centuries been habited and
ruled by Vikings from Scandinavia.
- In the year 1400 in the Emsland
in GERMANY,
a man called Herman Grip bought himself
free from serfdom. And from 1526 on, farmers bij the
name of
Gripp (also written as Griep or Gryp) were living in
Borstel and surrounding villages in Holstein.
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IS THERE
A RELATIONSHIP ?
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Looking
at all those families with their similar names,
it is quite obvious to presume, that many of them
could be related in some way. From the 14th
century on there were intensive shipping and
trading contacts between the counties along the North
and the Baltic Seas. Also must be
kept in mind that in those days the language from
the Netherlands ('Nederduits' or Dutch) served as
common factor in and around the coastal areas. In
many of those regions the Dutch had their
settlements, so it is not unthinkable that also
Dutch surnames were introduced. But making this presumptions is
one thing, really proving it in a genealogical
way is quite something else. In this case it is
the more difficult, because many archives in
these areas have been lost or destroyed in the
Second World War.
Besides that, it is of course
also possible that on different places names as
Griep/Grijp/Gryp/Grip/Gripp etc. did originate
independently of each other.
In the regions around the North
and Baltic Seas, the mythological griffin bird
('Grijp' in Dutch) does often appear on coats if
arms. Whether this has some meaning in respect to
these surnames or is completely coincidental, is
also something that is ready for research
...
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