The Van Dievoet family () is a
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family originating from the
Duchy of Brabant
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. It descends from the
Seven Noble Houses of Brussels
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and its members have been
''bourgeois'' (burgess) of that city since the 1600s. It formed, at the end of the 17th century, a now extinct
noble
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Parisian branch which used the name
Vandive.
[''La Revue'' (ancienne ''Revue des Revues''), volume 78, Paris, 1908, p. 471: « aux grandes fortunes des Delahoquette, des Vandive, des Granchez ».]
Origins
This family descends from Gilles van Dievoet (d. before 1672),
bourgeois of Brussels, who wed, in a first marriage on 13 November 1650, in the
Chapel Church, Catherine Slachmeulder. And, in a second marriage on 31 July 1660, in
Saint Gudula
Saint Gudula was born in the pagus of Brabant (in present-day Belgium). According to her 11th-century biography ( Vita Gudilae), written by a monk of the abbey of Hautmont between 1048 and 1051, she was the daughter of a duke of Lotharingia call ...
, Gertrude Zeevaert.
Brussels branch
The
Brussels
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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
Peter van Dievoet (; French: Pierre, Dutch: Peeter, Latin: Petrus; 16611729) was a sculptor, statuary, wood carver, and designer of ornamental architectural features from Brussels. He achieved fame for his work on a number of the Baroque gui ...
(1661–1729), famous sculptor in London and Brussels,
councillor to the city of Brussels.
* Pierre van Dievoet, musician (1781–1825).
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