House of Roodenbeke explained

Roodenbeke
Coat Of Arms:	File:Roodenbeke arms.svg

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

The Coudenberg House was charged with the defence of the Namur gate, seconded as of 1422 by the nation of Saint-Jacques.

Escutcheon

Argent, a bend wavy gules.

The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels

See main article: Seven Noble Houses of Brussels. The Seven noble houses of Brussels (French: sept lignages de Bruxelles, Dutch; Flemish: 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.

Together with the Guilds of Brussels they formed the Bourgeoisie of the city.

See also

• Seven Noble Houses of Brussels
  • House of Serroelofs
  • House of Sweerts
  • House of Coudenbergh
  • House of Sleeus
  • House of Serhuyghs
  • House of Steenweeghs
• Bourgeois of Brussels
• Guilds of Brussels

Notes and 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 pour l'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.