De Lens family explained

The de Lens family is a bourgeois family of Brussels of which a branch settled in Paris in the century of Louis XIV.

Members

• Jean de Lens ['''[[:fr:Jean de Lens|fr]]] (1616-1689), goldsmith of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans.
• Jacques de Lens ['''[[:fr:Jacques de Lens|fr]]] (1786-1846), doctor, founding member of the Academy of Medicine.

Heraldry

Escutcheon:	Quarterly or and sable^[1]
the de Lens family (Brussels and Paris)

Family of the same name from Hainaut

• Anne de Lens, wife of Adrien de Dion, had her heart embalmed and deposited in a leaden reliquary in the Church of St. Jacques of Douai in 1580, where it was discovered during archaeological excavations in 2007.^[2]

See also

• Guilds of Brussels
• Bourgeois of Brussels
• Bourgeois of Paris

Authority

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External links

• Genealogy of the de Lens family

Notes and References

1. Henri Nocq, Le poinçon de Paris, Paris, 1926-1931, sub verbo.
2. William Devriendt, Stéphane Venet, Ann Defgnée, Nicolas Garnier, Benjamin Gillet, Catherine Hänni, Loretta Rossetti, Découverte d’un cœur-reliquaire à Douai (ancienne église Saint-Jacques, place Carnot): Approche pluridisciplinaire de l’embaumement à l’époque moderne, Archéologie Médiévale, volume 42, 2012, 416 pages, CNRS Éditions, 2012,, (ISSN 0153-9337)