Poot family

For other uses, see Poot (disambiguation).

Poot
Blazon : gules with three silver swords placed in bar points at the bottom.
Parent family	Seven Noble Houses of Brussels
Country	Duchy of Brabant
Cadet branches	Baudier [1]

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. ^[2]

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 patrician class of that city, and to whom special privileges in the government of that city were granted until the end of the Ancien Régime.

The house from which the family descend :

• House of Sweerts

Heraldry

• 
  Poot family
• 
  Struelens family
• 
  Poot family quartered with the arms of the Struelens family

• 
  Poot Baudier family

Bibliography

• Jean-François Houtart, OGHB, Anciennes familles de Belgique, 2008, p. 397
• François met den Ancxt, Poot Baudier, in Recueil nobiliaire belge, volume I, 1911, p. 151.

Authority

Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Famille Poot; see its history for attribution.

References

1. François met den Ancxt, "Poot Baudier", in Recueil nobiliaire belge, vol. I, 1911, p. 151.
2. François Schoonjans, "Héraldique des familles lignagères La famille Poot", Bulletin trimestriel des Lignages de Bruxelles, 69, Jan.-Mar. 1977.