Van Dievoet family explained

Van Dievoet family
Other Names:	van Dievoet, Vandivout,^[1] Vandive, Divutius
Coat Of Arms:	File:Van Dievoet arms.svg
Coat Of Arms Caption:	Coat of arms
Region:	Belgium
Origin:	Duchy of Brabant
Founded:	17th century^[2]
Founder:	Gillis van Dievoet
Traditions:	Christianity^[3]
Motto:	Pes meus in directo.
Estate:	Château du Moisnil
Meaning:	Sacred ford (See: Dievoort)
Branches:	Vandive

The Van Dievoet family is a Belgian family originating from the Duchy of Brabant.^[4] It descends from the Seven Lineages of Brussels^[5] and its members have been bourgeois (freemen) of that city since the 1600s.^[6] It formed, at the end of the 17th century, a now extinct Parisian branch which used the name Vandive.^[7]

Origins

This family descends from Gillis van Dievoet^[8] (d. before 1672), bourgeois of Brussels, who wed, in a first marriage on 13 November 1650, in the Chapel Church,^[9] Catharina Slachmeulder.^[10] And, in a second marriage on 31 July 1660, in Saint Gudula,^[11] Gertrudis Zeevaert.^[12]

Brussels branch

The Brussels branch is the only extant branch of the Van Dievoet family. It has produced notable merchants, artists, architects, athletes, and executives, as well as prominent judges, lawyers and law historians.

Notable members

• Peter van Dievoet (1661–1729), baroque and classicist sculptor active in London and Brussels, councillor to the city of Brussels.^[13]
• Pierre van Dievoet, musician (1781–1825).^[14]
• Jean-Louis van Dievoet [<nowiki/>[[:fr:Jean-Louis Van Dievoet|'''fr''']]] (1777–1854), jurist and Secretary of the Belgian supreme court.
• Augustus van Dievoet (1803–1865), supreme court advocate and legal historian.

• Léon van Dievoet (1838–1908) ship-owner, associate of Lambert Straatman.
• Camille van Dievoet (1842–1931), agent of the National Bank of Belgium, Knight of the Order of Leopold, First Class Civic Cross, Commemorative Medal of the reign of Leopold II.
• Jules van Dievoet (1844–1917), supreme court advocate.
• Eugène van Dievoet II (1862–1937), architect, major (military engineering), Knight of the Order of Léopold (Military Division), Officer of the Order of the Crown, Commemorative Medal of the reign of Léopold II, Military Cross (First Class).
• Henri van Dievoet (1869–1931), architect.
• Gabriel van Dievoet (1875–1934), Art nouveau artist.
• Édouard van Dievoet (1875–1961), doctor of law and political and administrative sciences, General Manager of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, Officer of the France's Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of Leopold, Officer of the Order of the Crown.
• Georges van Dievoet (1876–1932), engineer, Knight of the Order of Leopold, delegate of the National Committee of the province of Namur during the Great War.
• Jules Édouard van Dievoet (1878–1941), lawyer at the Brussels Court of appeal. Knight of the Order of Leopold, Commemorative Medal of the 1914–1918 War and the Victory Medal 1914–1918.
• Albert van Dievoet (1886–1980), honorary director and general manager in Brussels of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (48 years of service), director of Thomas Cook & Sons, director of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels organization, Officer of the Order of Léopold, Commander of the Order of Léopold II, Croix de guerre with bronze lion, Fire Cross 1914–1918, Victory Medal 1914–1918, Officer of the France's Legion of honour, Commander of the Royal Order of Merit of Bulgaria, Commander of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau.^[15]
• Paul van Dievoet (1896–1947), architect of the municipality of Schaerbeek.
• Germaine van Dievoet, (1899–1990), competitive swimmer, Bronze medal of the Sporting Merit, participated in the 1920 Antwerp Summer Olympics.
• Pierre van Dievoet (1904–1982), engineer, Knight of the Order of Leopold, captain of the Resistance, member of the Secret Army, Brumagne Squadron, Deputy Chief of Staff of Zone III of the Secret Army (Flanders).
• Léon van Dievoet II (1907–1993), architect, Knight of the Orders of Leopold and Crown.
• Jean-Paul van Dievoet^[16] (1928–2005), civil, electrical, mechanical, and naval engineer, Director General of the Belgonucléaire S.A.,^[17] Pres. of Transnubel, VP of INB (Kalkar), Pres. of the Belgian Nuclear Society, VP of the Committee for Nuclear development and the Fuel Cycle of OECD-NEA, 1st Chairman^[18] and Honorary Fellow of the European Nuclear Society, Officer of the Order of Leopold.
• Florence van Dievoet née Descampe (b. 1969), veteran professional golfer.
• Ariane van Dievoet (b. 1988), interior architect, minimalist furniture and product designer, founder of design studio Avandi in Brooklyn in 2011.

Parisian branch

See main article: Vandive family. The Parisian branch of the family, which used the name Vandive, descends from Philippe and produced notable goldsmiths and councillors to the Kings of France as well as a notable printer. It became extinct in 1802.

Notable members

• Philippe van Dievoet called Vandive, écuyer (1654–1738), councillor to the king,^[19] goldsmith of Louis XIV and consul of Paris.
• Guillaume Vandive, (1680–1706), printer of the Dauphin.
• Balthazar Philippe Vandive, goldsmith and consul of Paris
• Nicolas Félix Vandive, écuyer, lawyer at the Parlement of Paris, Clerk of the Hearing at the King's Council, Secretary-Advisor to King House and Crown of France.

Heraldry

the Van Dievoet family
Crest:	a demi wyvern Sable armed and langued Gules
Escutcheon:	Per pale Argent and Sable, on a tower embattled of four merlons counterchanged and gated of the field between in chief two mullets of six-points Gules and Or and in base a crescent counterchanged, an escutcheon per pale Or and Gules charged with a dexter human foot sole counterchanged.^[20] ^[21]
Motto:	Pes meus in directo.
Notes:	These canting arms^[22] were first documented in the confirmation of familial arms that, on 14 October 1698, was delivered to Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet, husband of Anne van der Borcht, by Joseph van den Leene (1654–1742), First King of Arms of the Spanish Netherlands and the Duchy of Burgundy.
Other Versions:	Coat of arms of Peter van Dievoet, brother of Jean-Baptiste, recorded in 1713 in the roll of arms of the Drapery Court of Brussels
Year Granted:	1698 by the King of Arms Joseph van den Leene 2021 by the Council of Heraldry and Vexillology

Genealogy

Gillis van Dievoet († before 1672) x Catharina Slachmeulder^[23]

• • Philippe van Dievoet called Vandive (1654–1738) x Anne Martinot
    • Vandive family
• Gillis van Dievoet († before 1672) x Gertrudis Zeevaert^[24]
  • Peter van Dievoet (1661–1729) x Dorothea de Witte
  • Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet I(1663–1751)^[25] x Anne van der Borcht^[26]
    • Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet II (1704–1776)^[27] x Élisabeth van der Meulen
      • Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet III (1747–1821)^[28] x Anne-Marie Lambrechts
        • Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet IV (1775–1862), JUL^[29] x Catherine-Jeanne Cuerens
        • Jean-Louis van Dievoet (fr) (1777–1854) x Jeanne Wittouck
          • Augustus van Dievoet (1803–1865) x Antoinette Coniart
            • Jules van Dievoet (1844–1917) x Marguerite Anspach
              • Jules Édouard van Dievoet (1878–1941) x Marguerite Leclercq
          • Eugène van Dievoet I (1804–1858) x Hortense Poelaert
            • Ernest Jean-Louis Van Dievoet (1835–1903) x Léonie Joséphine Françoise Most
              • Eugène Van Dievoet II (1862–1937) x Léonie Caroline Catherine Quarez
            • Léon Philippe van Dievoet (1838–1908) x Hermine Straatman
              • Henri van Dievoet (1869–1931) x Eugenie Masson
                • Paul van Dievoet (1896–1947)
                • Germaine van Dievoet (1899–1990) x Willy Dessecker
              • Gabriel van Dievoet (1875–1934) x Alice Demets
                • Léon van Dievoet II (1907–1993) x Madeleine Vande Weyer
            • Camille Van Dievoet (1842–1931) x Lucie Sancke
              • Albert van Dievoet (1886–1980) x Anne François

See also

• Belgian Resistance
• Bourgeois of Brussels
• Bourgeois of Paris
• Château du Moisnil
• Guillaume Delcourt
• Dievoet, for other families with the same surname
• Dievoort, a surname of the same etymology
• Drapery Court of Brussels
• Guilds of Brussels
• Secret Army
• Société des douze
• Rue du Marché aux Fromages
• List of Legion of Honour recipients by name (V)

Further reading

• Alain van Dievoet, « Un disciple belge de Grinling Gibbons, le sculpteur Pierre van Dievoet (1661–1729) et son œuvre à Londres et Bruxelles », in: Le Folklore brabançon, March 1980, n° 225, pp. 65–91.
• Alain van Dievoet, « Généalogie de la famille van Dievoet originaire de Bruxelles, dite van Dive à Paris », in: Le Parchemin, ed. Genealogical and Heraldic Office of Belgium, Brussels, 1986, n° 245, pp. 273–293.
• Alain van Dievoet, « Quand le savoir-faire des orfèvres bruxellois brillait à Versailles », in: Cahiers bruxellois, Brussels, 2004, pp. 19–66.
• Madame Dolez, « Les Anspach d'Est en Ouest », in: Le Parchemin, ed. Genealogical and Heraldic Office of Belgium, Brussels, n° 240, 1985, pp. 380–381, note 9. (For the descendants of Augustus Van Dievoet)
• F. By, « Famille van Dievoet : Artistes, de père en fils », in: Le Vif/L'Express numéro spécial Bruxelles : la saga des grandes familles, 26th year n°47 (Le Vif) and n°2993 (L'Express), 21–27 November 2008, p. 121.
• Jean-François Houtart, Anciennes familles de Belgique, Brussels, 2008, p. 393.
• Walériane Dubois, « Ces dynasties qui ont bâti Bruxelles : Les Van Dievoet – Créateurs polyvalents », in Le Vif Weekend, n°8, 5 November 2020, p. 65.

External links

• La famille van Dievoet, l'art et l'architecture on puzzlavie.be (in French)
• Ascendants of Augustus Van Dievoet and his brother Eugene (in French)

Notes and References

1. Bimbenet-Privat, op. cit., p. 322 : "8 octobre 1692, Philippe Vandivout, orfèvre de Monseigneur le Dauphin est témoin (au mariage de l'orfèvre Claude de Drisfald) ; ibidem " Philippe Vandivout est reçu maître par un arrêt du Conseil qui l'autorise à tenir boutique ouverte dans Paris" ; Archives Nationales, notary Guillaume Charles BIOCHE, 1713 (étude XCVII), MC/ET/XCVII/438, fol. 61, constitution de tontine, émission 1759, 15 janvier 1761, M. Nicolas Felix Vandivout dit Vandive, ancien marchand orfèvre, Paris, domicilié paroisse Saint-Germain-L'auxerrois, as wel as MC/ET/XCVII/439, constitution de tontine, émission 1759, 3 mars 1761.
2. Its filiation has been established since 1650, the date of the first wedding of Gillis van Dievoet (? - d. before 1672). Read: Jean-François Houtart, Anciennes familles de Belgique, Brussels, 2008, p. 393.
3. Most Van Dievoets are and were catholics, however, the family branch of architect Henri Van Dievoet was protestant. Hugh Robert Boudin, « VAN DIEVOET, Henri », in : Dictionnaire historique du protestantisme et de l'anglicanisme en Belgique du 16e siècle à nos jours, Arquennes, 2014, sub verbo.
4. Jean-François Houtart, Anciennes familles de Belgique, Brussels, 2008, p. 393.
5. [Sweerts House|Sweerts]
6. Jan Caluwaerts, Poorters van Brussel//Bourgeois de Bruxelles, tome II, 161-1695, Louvain, 2005, p. 89.
7. La Revue (ancienne Revue des Revues), volume 78, Paris, 1908, p. 471: « aux grandes fortunes des Delahoquette, des Vandive, des Granchez ».
8. Alain van Dievoet, « Généalogie de la famille van Dievoet originaire de Bruxelles, dite van Dive à Paris », in : Le Parchemin, ed. Office généalogique et héraldique de Belgique, Brussels, 1986, n° 245, p. 273 to 293, and also : Alain van Dievoet, « Quand le savoir-faire des orfèvres bruxellois brillait à Versailles », in : Cahiers bruxellois, Brussels, 2004, pp. 19-66. This article contains an extensive bibliography and many references and transcripts of archival documents. To read.
9. Cahiers Bruxellois, op. cit., : "Gilles van Dievoet (…) épousa en premières noces à Bruxelles, en l'église Notre-Dame de la Chapelle, le 13 novembre 1650, (…) Catherine Slachmeulder". Voir "Archives de l'État", registres paroissiaux en ligne. Le 13 novembre 1650, mariage, église de la Chapelle, de Gilles Van Dievoet et Catherine Slachmoelders : "Aegidius Van dievoet Catharina Slachmoelders Coniuncti sunt die 13. nouembris 1650. testes fuerunt D. Joês kelegom Petrus rossum et alij plures".
10. La graphie "Slachmeulder" est celle qui figure dans l'acte de baptême de son fils l'orfèvre Philippe Van Dievoet à Sainte Gudule le 9 janvier 1654 : "9a [januarius 1654] Philippus filius legitimus Ægidij Van Dievoet, et Catharine Slachmeulder. Suscept : Philippus Slachmulder, et Catharina Verhasselt".
11. Bruxelles, collégiale de Sainte Gudule, 31 juillet 1660, mariage de Gilles Van Dievoet et Gertrude Zeevaert : "Die 31a Julij 1660 in baptisterio huius ecclesiae coram infrascripto contraxerunt inter se matrimonium Ægidius Van Dievoet, et Gertrudis Zeevaert D. Gudilae parochiani, dispensante Illmo ac Rmo D. Archie(pisco)po Mechl(iniensi) in bannorum solemnijs, praestito juramento libertatis requisito, praesentibus tamquam testibus Augustino Neetens, Joanne Zeevart fratre sponsae, Francisco Jacobs, Nicolao Vander Borcht, Joachimo Zeevart fratre sponsae, Maria de Smet, Carola la Croix, et Elisabetha Hannart, quod attestor Servatius Middegaels viceplebanus D(ivae) Gudilae".
12. Book: . The Armorial Register . 4 . Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet (1663–1751), Registration No. 0557 . http://www.armorialregister.com/arms-be/van-dievoet-arms.html.
13. Alexandre Henne and Alphonse Wauters, Histoire de la ville de Bruxelles, Éditions culture et civilisation Bruxelles, 1975, Volume 2, pp. 507-508
14. Pierre Van Dievoet, artiste musicien, né à Bruxelles le 29 septembre 1781, mort célibataire vers 1825, fils de Pierre-Jacques-Joseph Van Dievoet, négociant en lin et fabricant de cotonnettes, doyen de la Corporation des marchands de toile en gros en 1788 et freemason membre de la Loge de "La constance de L'Union", demeurant Langeridderstraet, né le 17 mai 1748 et décédé en son domicile à Saint-Josse-ten-Noode le 21 novembre 1828 (acte de décès n°56 du 23 novembre) et d’Anne-Marie Meskens. Pierre Van Dievoet est cité notamment comme interprète de Mozart: Henri Vanhulst, Belgique, professeur à l'Université libre de Belgique, "La diffusion de la musique de Mozart à Bruxelles avant 1816", dans Mozart: les chemins de l'Europe : actes publiés par Brigitte Massin, : "Liste chronologique des œuvres de Mozart exécutées à Bruxelles lors de concerts (avant 1816) : 2 janvier 1804. Finale de la Flûte enchantée (Société des Amateurs de Musique), musique de Mozart; par Mlle Roelens, MM. Moris, Vandievoet (N. B. il s'agit de Pierre Van Dievoet), Dehoux et Drault.". Pierre Van Dievoet, "musicien, âgé de 30 ans, domicilié Section 8 -rue de la Madeleine 399- né à Bruxelles" est cité lors du recensement de 1812 (Antoine Massin, Bruxelles. Qui est qui en 1812, Bruxelles, 1997, tome II, . Voir aussi: Le Guide musical: revue internationale de la musique, volume 21: "Permets-moi, romance de Lamporelli, arrangée pour le violon avec variation et acc. d'un violon, alto et basse. À Anvers, au magasin de musique et d'instruments, chez Fridzeri. Gravé par P. Vandievoet…".
15. Book: WHO'S WHO IN BELGIUM including the Belgian Congo: A Biographical Dictionary containing about 5.000 biographies of prominent people in and of Belgium and Belgian Congo (1957–1958). Intercontinental Book & Publishing Co., Ltd. (1957–1958).. 1959. Koller. K.. Belgian editor: G.H.B. Universal Editions Brussels (1959). de Maeyer. T.W.. Taylor. Dr Stephen S..
16. Dictionary of international biography, volume 1, Cambridge, 1986, p.721 (Read online)
17. R.M. Whiteside, Major Energy Companies of Europe 1989/90, Londres, Graham & Trotman, 1989, p. 16 (Read online)
18. Web site: INSC Information (1). 2021-02-06. insc.ans.org.
19. Web site: Artistes, de père en fils. 2008-11-21. Site-LeVif-FR. 2019-12-09.
20. [Georges Dansaert]
21. These are the arms that were recognised in the grant of familial arms that, on 14 October 1698, was delivered to Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet, husband of Anne van der Borcht, by Joseph van den Leene (1654–1742), King of Arms, here is the copy : «Messire Joseph van den Leene Seigr : de Lodelinsart et de Castillon Conseillier de sa Majesté Cath: Le Roy Ntre Sire (que Dieu conserve) et son premier Roy d'arme es pays de pardeca costre de Namur et Tresorier de l'Eglise Collégiale et paroissiale de notre Dame a Walcort en la ditte province a atteste que les armes cÿ dessus depeintes et figures en ces meteaulx et couleurs (qui sont un escus d'argent partÿ de sable au chateau de lun en lautre charge en cœur d'un escusson d'or partÿ de guelles a la plante d'un pié dextre humain aussi de l'un en l'autre et accompagne en cheff de deux Etoiles a six rais l'un de guelles et l'autre d'or et en pointe dun croissant partÿ de l'escus) sont celles de famille de VANDIEVOET en temoin de ce jai signè cette et muni du cachet de mes armes. Fait ez Chambris Héraldique Palais en la ville de Fort bruxelles ce 14e jour du mois d'octobre 1698. dos D.J. Vandenleene. reg: ».
22. Symbolism is very present in these arms, and a number of factors, some more obvious, some etymological make these canting arms:
    1) voet means "foot" in Dutch: foot plant
    2) dividere means dividing in Latin: shield is divided in the middle
    3) die means "day" in Latin, the shield is divided between day and night (argent and sable). In the upper left in red is the morning star (Phosphorus, Stella Diei – Venus) and upper right is Hesperus, the evening star (also Venus). The crescent is also split between night and day, this crescent moon (Diana or Selene), in ancient iconography is often represented as accompanying the stars Phosphoros and Hesperus, as in this coat of arms. (See: Star and crescent)
    4) a dividiculum means a castle (tower) placed on a division/separation of land, often this means a ford (see etymology of the name below)
    5) the city of Metz in France is called Divodurum in Latin and its arms are blazoned: party per pale argent and sable, the same base as these.
23. daughter of Marc Slachmolder and of Catherine Sarter, died in Brussels (Saint Gudula) on 24 June 1660, rue de la Madeleine, near the Madeleine Church, buried in the cemetery of the convent of the Récollets Franciscans
24. died in Brussels on 22 July 1705, rue de la Madeleine in the house called « Roi d'Espagne». She was buried on the 24th in the Madeleine Church after having remarried on 28 August 1672 in the Saint-Géry Church with Charles de Lens, bourgeois of Brussels and master cooper, died on 16 April 1701
25. bourgeois of Brussels, wine merchant, admitted to mastery on 4 July 1696, and master cooper, admitted to mastery, dean of the Coopers' Guild in 1703, churchwarden of Saint Gudula in 1706, baptised in Sainte Gudula on 6 March 1663 and died in Brussels on 4 April 175. His funeral was at the Récollets church where he was buried in the family tomb. He had wed in Saint-Jacques-sur-Coudenberg in Brussels on 7 June 1696, Anne van der Borcht, baptised in Saint Gudula on 16 April 1670, died on 26 September 1707 and buried in the same tomb, daughter of Jacques van der Borcht and of Dorothea de Witte (who wed in a second marriage the sculptor Peter van Dievoet, brother of Jean-Baptiste). Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet wed in a second marriage in Saint Gudula on 16 November 1709, Suzanne van der Bierstraete, widow of Jean-Baptiste Seghers, apothecary, daughter of Léonard van der Biestraeten and of Josine van Schoonendonck, died on 16 December 1732. They did not have children together.
26. They had nine children born in Brussels rue de la Madeleine, in the house called « Den Coninck van Spanien
27. son of Jean-Baptiste and of Anne van der Borcht, wine merchant, dean of the wine merchants' guild of the Nation of Saint-Jacques, in 1742 and 1756, and master of the poor at the Supreme Charity of the church of Saint-Nicolas, baptised in Saint Gudula on 30 May 1704, died in Brussels on 9 January 1776 and buried on the 13th in the Récollets Church. He wed in Saint-Géry in Brussels on 27 December 1739, Élisabeth van der Meulen, baptised in Saint-Géry on 24 January 1720, daughter of Lambert van der Meulen and Elisabeth Cosijns, grand daughter of Francis van der Meulen and Pétronille de Bleser, great grand daughter of Jean van der Meulen and Elisabeth Govaerts, great great grand daughter of Francis van der Meulen and Anne de Beckers, the latter, son of Ingelberts van der Meulen (son of Vranck van der Meulen and Gudule Comperis) and of Cathelyne Verluytgaerde called Winnepenninckx. The van der Meulen family were merchants in freshwater fish the Visscher Zenne, most were deans of the freshwater fishmongers' guild. They owned a large number of fishponds and lakes, notably in the Sonian Forest. Elisabeth van der Meulen owned the famous étangs des Enfants noyés, she sold it to the state in 1744. She also obtained through succession the fief of the Roetaert in Uccle-Stalle which went to her descendants.She died on 16 June 1769.
28. son of Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet and Élisabeth van der Meulen, wine merchant, born in brussels on 24 January 1747, baptised in Saint Nicholas and died in Brussels on 30 December 1821. He was a Freemason, member of the Loge of «La constance de L'Union», created in 1769. He wed in a first marriage in Sainte-Catherine in Brussels on 12 September 1774, Anne-Marie Françoise Lambrechts, daughter of Jean-Louis Lambrechts, bourgeois of Brussels, spice merchant and sugar refiner, and of Marie François, born in Brussels on 12 February 1753, baptised in Sainte-Catherine, died in Brussels on 23 September 1781. Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet wed in a second marriage in the church of Saint-Géry in Brussels on 9 August 1784, Marie-Pétronille-Catherine Van den Velden, born in Brussels, baptised on 23 February 1751 in Saint-Géry and died in Brussels on 2 June 1836, daughter of Jean-Baptiste-Dominique and of Marie-Catherine-Claire Huybrechts.
29. JUL (Juris Utriusque Licentiatus) (1775–1862), husband of Catherine-Jeanne Cuerens (1781–1823), father of Hortense van Dievoet (1804–1854).