House of Steenweeghs explained

Steenweeghs
Coat Of Arms:	File:Steenweeghs arms.svg

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

The House of Steenweeghs was charged in 1383 with the defence of the Louvain gate, and was assisted as of 1422 by the nation of Saint-Jean.

Escutcheon

Gules (Brussels), five escallops in a cross.

Noble houses

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 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

• Seven Noble Houses of Brussels
  • House of Serroelofs
  • House of Sweerts
  • House of Coudenbergh
  • House of Sleeus
  • House of Serhuyghs
  • House of Roodenbeke
• 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.