van Hogendorp who died in The Hague in 1584 and worked as a councillor for the High Council of Holland.

The possessions of the Van Hogendorp family include the partly free lordships of Moerkapelle, Wilde Veenen, Sint-Jan ten Steen, Glossenberghe, Hofwegen, Steenhuysen, Cromstrijen and Heijningen.

In 1811, emperor Napoleon gave Dirk van Hogendorp the title of Comte de l'Empire.

In 1814, Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp was appointed to the ridderschap (thus de facto recognized into the nobility) and in 1815 granted the title Count of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with inheritance of the title to the legal, eldest son.

Untitled noble members of other branches of the family still bear the predicate Jonkheer.