House of Sweerts

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Sweerts
Sweerts arms.svg
Place of originCoat of Arms of Brussels.svg  Brussels
The Flanders Gate, c. 1780 Porte Flandre.jpg
The Flanders Gate, c.1780
Sweerts crest : a high cap, cut like the shield; Supports: two satyrs. SWEERTS.jpg
Sweerts crest : a high cap, cut like the shield; Supports: two satyrs.
Primitive Sweerts arms, still borne by members of this lineage around 1250 Ancien blason du lignage Sweerts (1250).svg
Primitive Sweerts arms, still borne by members of this lineage around 1250

The House ofSweerts or Sweerts Lineage (French: Lignage Sweerts) is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels, along with Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Steenweeghs, Coudenbergh, Serroelofs, and Roodenbeke. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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The Sweerts House was charged with the defence of the Flanders Gate, and was assisted as of 1422 by the Nation of St Giles.

Escutcheon

Party per pale pily of four and a half argent on gules.

The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels

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.

See also

History of Brussels

References

  1. Joseph de Roovere, NPB, Le manuscrit de Roovere conservé au Fonds Général du Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Filiations reconnues sous l'Ancien Régime pourl'admission aux Lignages de Bruxelles, ed. M. Paternostre de La Mairieu, avec une introduction d'Henri-Charles van Parys, Grandmetz, 2 vol., 1981-1982 (Tablettes du Brabant, Recueils X et XI).
  2. N. J. Stevens, Recueil généalogique de la famille de Cock, Brussels, 1855.
  3. Vicomte Terlinden, "Coup d'oeil sur l'histoire des lignages de Bruxelles", in Présence du passé, vol. 2, 1949.
  4. Baudouin Walckiers, PB, Filiations lignagères contemporaines, Brussels, 1999.