Seven noble houses of Brussels

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Coat of arms of the seven noble houses of Brussels
Coat of arms of the seven noble houses of Brussels, 1697.
Rose window of the seven noble houses of Brussels, from the book by Erycius Puteanus, Bruxella Septenaria , 1656

The seven noble houses of Brussels is the name of the seven families of Brussels , whose descendants formed the patriciate of this city. This gave them special rights that were granted to them until the end of the Ancien Régime .

history

The seven noble houses of Brussels were first recorded in a document from 1306 by John II, Duke of Brabant , after the seven families demanded that citizens, represented by themselves as a patrician society , be involved in the government of the city. The families named in the document are:

  • Sleeus
  • Sweerts
  • Serhuyghs
  • Steenweeghs
  • Coudenbergh
  • Serroelofs and
  • Roodenbeke.

All members of the city council were recruited and selected exclusively from among these families, they had to be able to prove a patrilineal or matrilineal descent from these seven families.

Although the craftsmen's guilds were granted some rights to participate in the government after violent, sometimes bloody disputes in 1421, the rule of the seven houses continued until the end of the Ancien Régime. The abolition of privileges then meant the end of the oligarchic system of the seven noble houses of Brussels.

Today the seven noble houses are dedicated to cultural tasks.

literature

  • Curiositeyten raekende de geslachten van Brussel , Brussels, ca.1650 .
  • Ch. Dens, Le dossier d'un candidat au Lignage de Caudenberg en 1752 , in: "Annales de la société d'archéologie de Bruxelles", XXXI, 1923, pp. 23-27.
  • Christopher Gérard, Aux Armes de Bruxelles , Lausanne, L'Âge d'Homme, 2009, pp. 49–50 and 94.
  • Philippe Godding, Seigneurs fonciers bruxellois (approx. 1250-1450 ), in: Cahiers bruxellois , 1959, pp. 194 to 223 and 1960, pp. 1 to 17 and 85 to 113.
  • J. van der Maelen, Les sept lignages de Bruxelles , in: "Collection des Précis Historiques", 1859, pp. 329–333 and 348–355.
  • Désiré van der Meulen, List des personnes et des familles admises aux Lignages de Bruxelles, depuis le XIVe siècle jusqu'en 1792 , Antwerp, Sermon, 1869, in-f °.
  • Henry-Charles van Parys, Schéma d'une étude juridique sur les lignages de Bruxelles , in: "Recueil du IVe Congrès International des Sciences Généalogiques et Héraldiques", 1958, pp. 429-437.
  • Erycius Puteanus, Bruxella septennaria , Brussels, 1646.

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