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The House ofSteenweeghs or Steenweeghs Lineage (French: Lignage Steenweeghs) is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels, along with Roodenbeke, Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Sweerts, Serroelofs and Coudenberg. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The House of Steenweeghs was charged in 1383 with the defence of the Louvain gate, and was assisted as of 1422 by the nation of Saint-Jean.
Gules (Brussels), five escallops in a cross.
The Seven noble houses of Brussels (French : sept lignages de Bruxelles, Dutch : zeven geslachten van Brussel) were the seven families of Brussels whose descendants formed the city's patrician class, to whom special privileges were granted until the end of the Ancien Régime.
Together with the Guilds of Brussels they formed the city's Bourgeoisie.
Peter van Dievoet was a Flemish Baroque sculptor, statuary, wood carver and designer of ornamental architectural elements active in Brussels and England. He is known for his work on a number of the Baroque guild houses on the Grand-Place, which was rebuilt after the bombardment of 1695, as well as on the Statue of James II on Trafalgar Square, London, made in collaboration with fellow Flemish sculptor Laurens van der Meulen. He was the half-brother of Philippe van Dievoet, goldsmith to King Louis XIV of France and the uncle of the Parisian printer Guillaume Vandive.
Henri van Dievoet was a Belgian architect.
The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels were the seven families or clans whose descendants formed the patrician class and urban aristocracy of Brussels, Belgium.
The Ommegang of Brussels is a traditional Ommegang, a type of medieval pageant, celebrated annually in Brussels, Belgium.
Augustus Van Dievoet was a Belgian legal historian and Supreme Court advocate. His son, Jules Van Dievoet, also a Supreme Court advocate, married Marguerite Anspach (1852-1934), the daughter of Jules Anspach, who served as burgomaster of Brussels in 1863–1879.
The Van Dievoetfamily is a Belgian family originating from the Duchy of Brabant. It descends from the Seven Lineages of Brussels and its members have been bourgeois (freemen) of that city since the 1600s. It formed, at the end of the 17th century, a now extinct Parisian branch which used the name Vandive.
In Brussels, as in most European cities, one needed the capacity of bourgeois to exercise political rights but also to practice a trade, which in Brussels meant to be a member of the guilds or of the Seven Noble Houses.
The Leyniers family (/lɛnɪjɛ/) is a bourgeois family that appeared in Brussels in the 15th century and produced many high-level tapestry makers and dyers, experts in the art of dyeing in subtle shades the woolen threads destined for this trade.
The House ofSweerts or Sweerts Lineage is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels along with the Houses of: Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Steenweeghs, Coudenbergh, Serroelofs and Roodenbeke.
The Pipenpoy family (/pɪpɒ̃pwə/), was an old and influential patrician family of Brussels which exercised public functions in the capital of the Duchy of Brabant until the end of the Ancien Régime. It died in 1832 with Catherine de Pipenpoy, who was 100 years old. Several of its members were admitted to the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels.
The Drapery Court also called the Chamber of Commerce in the eighteenth century, was one of the oldest and most influential institutions of the City of Brussels during the Ancien Régime and was abolished during the French occupation of Brussels.
The House or Lineage ofCoudenbergh or Coudenberg is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels along with the Houses of: Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Steenweeghs, Sweerts, Serroelofs, and Roodenbeke.
The House or Lineage ofSerroelofs or t’Serroelofs is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels along with the Houses of: Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Steenweeghs, Sweerts, Coudenberg, and Roodenbeke.
The House ofRoodenbeke or Roodenbeke Lineage is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels along with the Houses of: Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Steenweeghs, Sweerts, Serroelofs, and Coudenberg.
The House ofSleeus or Sleeus Lineage is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels along with the Houses of: Roodenbeke, Serhuyghs, Steenweeghs, Sweerts, Serroelofs, and Coudenberg.
The House ofSerhuyghs or Serhuyghs Lineage is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels along with the Houses of: Sleeus, Roodenbeke, Sweerts, Serroelofs, Steenweeghs, and Coudenberg.
The de Muyser Lantwyck family is an old Belgian family dating back to the beginning of the 15th century, tracing its roots to Jean Moyser, alderman of Vaelbeek, who held lands in Héverlé in 1451, censier of the Groenendael Priory, lord holding the lands and manor of Cockelberg by lease dated 19 June 1438, husband of Aleyde Crabbé.
The Poot family is a family that was admitted to the bourgeoisie of Brussels and from 1753 was registered among the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels.
The Association Royale des Descendants des Lignages de Bruxelles (French) is a hereditary organization of individuals who have documented their descent from at least one member of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels.
Georges Dansaert PB, was a Belgian lawyer, historian, poet, heraldist, genealogist, and writer from Brussels. In 1938, he received the Hercule-Catenacci prize from the Académie Française along with Baudouin de Lannoy for their book Jean de Lannoy le Bâtisseur, 1410–1493. He descended from the Houses of Sleeus and Sweerts of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels. The Dansaert family, now extinct, was an old and prominent ship-owning family from Brussels. He was a director of the Association Royale des Descendants des Lignages de Bruxelles. He was a donat of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
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