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The Vandive family (; or Van Dievoet called Vandive; in French: Van Dievoet dit Vandive) was a
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ian and elder branch of the Van Dievoet family from
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, descended from goldsmith
Philippe Van Dievoet Sire Philippe Van Dievoet () called Vandive (), écuyer, (1654–1738) was a celebrated goldsmith and jeweller. He was goldsmith to King Louis XIV, councillor of the King, ''officier de la Garde Robe du Roi'' (officer of the King's wardrobe), trus ...
, the brother of famous Brussels sculptor
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 ...
. The family were first
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before becoming part of the
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. This Parisian branch of the
Van Dievoet family The Van Dievoet family () is a Belgian family originating from the Duchy of Brabant. It descends from the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels and its members have been ''bourgeois'' (burgess) of that city since the 1600s. It formed, at the end of th ...
became extinct in 1802 with the death of François Gilles Vandive.


Name

Depending on the source, the name of
Philippe Van Dievoet Sire Philippe Van Dievoet () called Vandive (), écuyer, (1654–1738) was a celebrated goldsmith and jeweller. He was goldsmith to King Louis XIV, councillor of the King, ''officier de la Garde Robe du Roi'' (officer of the King's wardrobe), trus ...
was changed to Vandive either by the Dauphin of whom he had been the jeweller, or by his father, King
Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Ver ...
. Before that, it was briefly written as Vandivout, in an attempt to
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the name.


Members

* "Sire" Philippe van Dievoet called Vandive, '' écuyer'' (1654-1738), councillor to the king,
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of King
Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Ver ...
and
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of
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. *
Guillaume Vandive Guillaume Vandive (, also Vandivout and Van Dievoet; ) (22 november 1680 – 1706) was a French printer and bookseller. He was a master tradesman under the patronage of the Dauphin of France. Vandive's premises was on the rue Saint-Jacques, Pa ...
, (1680-1706),
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of the Dauphin. *"Sire" Balthazar Philippe Vandive,
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and
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of
Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
*
Nicolas Félix Vandive Sieur Nicolas-Félix Van Dievoet () called Vandive (), écuyer, (c.1710–1792) was a French court official and nobleman. He was court clerk at the ''Grand Conseil'' (1743) and of the ''Conseil du Roi'' (King's Council), lawyer at the ''Parlemen ...
, écuyer, lawyer at the
Parlement de Paris The Parliament of Paris (french: Parlement de Paris) was the oldest ''parlement'' in the Kingdom of France, formed in the 14th century. It was fixed in Paris by Philip IV of France in 1302. The Parliament of Paris would hold sessions inside the ...
, Clerk of the Hearing at the King's Council, Secretary-Advisor to King House and Crown of France.


Ennoblements

Two of its members benefitted from personal and/or hereditary
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s due to their functions and offices. * 1680 : personal
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with the title of '' écuyer'' for the goldsmith Philippe van Dievoet called Vandive, councillor to the
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, due to his position as an officer of the ''Garde-Robe'' of the
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from 1680 until 1711. * 1743 : hereditary nobility for
Nicolas Félix Vandive Sieur Nicolas-Félix Van Dievoet () called Vandive (), écuyer, (c.1710–1792) was a French court official and nobleman. He was court clerk at the ''Grand Conseil'' (1743) and of the ''Conseil du Roi'' (King's Council), lawyer at the ''Parlemen ...
, clerk of the
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, sworn in on 26 April 1743, which granted him hereditary nobility as of 1763 after a service of 20 years (principle of nobility of 1743)''L'État de la France'', tome IV, Paris, chez Ganeau, rue Saint Severin, près l'Église, aux Armes de Dombes et à Saint-Louis, avec privilège du roi, 1749, : "''Greffiers au Grand Conseil. 26 avril 1743. Nicolas-Felix Vandive, Greffier de l'Audience. 23 juillet 1720. Jean-Joseph Nau, Greffier de la Chambre. Nota. Le Roi a accordé la Noblesse pour toujours à l'ancien de ces deux Greffiers mourant dans sa charge, ou qui l'aura exercée durant vingt ans''." * 1771 : the same Nicolas Félix van Dievoet called Vandive also held the ennobling office of advisor-notary-secretary of the king.


Heraldry


Historically allied families

* Martinot family * Beau de la Passutière


Notes


Further reading

* Alfred Détrez, « Aristocrates et joailliers sous l'ancien régime », in : ''La Revue''(ancienne ''Revue des Revues''), volume 78, Paris, 1908, p. 471: « aux grandes fortunes des Delahoquette, des Vandive, des Granchez » * Édouard Van Dievoet, « Van Dive, joaillier du Dauphin », in : ''L’Intermédiaire des Chercheurs et Curieux'', Paris, March 1953, col. 100. * Alfred Marie, Jeanne Marie, "Mansart à Versailles", in ''Versailles son histoire'', volume 2, 1972, p. 635 (written as Vandivout). * Yvonne Brunel, ''Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, duchesse de Bourgogne, 1685-1712'', foreword by Pierre Breillat, conservateur en chef à la Bibliothèque de la Ville de Versailles, Paris, Beauchesne, 1974, p. 59 et 253. * Alain Van Dievoet, « Un disciple belge de Grinling Gibbons, le sculpteur Pierre van Dievoet (1661-1729) et son Å“uvre à Londres et Bruxelles », in ''Le Folklore Brabançon'', March 1980, n° 225, pp. 65–91. * André Monteyne, ''Les Bruxellois, un passé peu ordinaire'', Brussels, Vander editions, 1982, p. 109. * Alain Van Dievoet, « Van Dive, joaillier du Dauphin », in : ''L'intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux : mensuel de questions et réponses sur tous sujets et toutes curiosités'', Paris, n° 470, 1990, columns 645–650. * Michèle Bimbenet-Privat, ''Les orfèvres et l’orfèvrerie de Paris au xviie siècle'', Paris, 2002, 2 vol., passim. * Alain Van Dievoet, « Une famille d'orfèvres d'origine bruxelloise à Paris : les VAN DIEVOET dits VANDIVE », in : ''Généalogie en Yvelines'', n°66, December 2003 * Pierre Le Roy et Paul Micio, ''Statuts et privilèges du corps des marchands orfevres-joyailliers de la ville de Paris: an 18th-century compendium of the laws governing silversmithing in Paris'', published by J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the New York Public Library, 2003. * Mathieu da Vinha, ''Les Valets de chambre de Louis XIV'', Paris, 2004, concernant la charge d'Officier de la Garde Robe du roi et les Martinot. * Alain Van Dievoet, Â
Quand le savoir-faire des orfèvres bruxellois brillait à Versailles
», in : ''Cahiers bruxellois'', Bruxelles, 2004, pp. 19–66. * Nicolas Lylon-Caen, "Labrüe au paradis, Chapeau aux enfers. Les notables de Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois face à leurs curés au xviiie siècle", ''Revue d'Histoire de l'Église de France'', Éditeur Brepols, volume 92, n. 1 / 2006, p. 117-146. * Hélène Cavalié née d'Escayrac-Lauture, ''Pierre Germain dit le Romain (1703-1783). Vie d'un orfèvre et de son entourage'', Paris, 2007, thèse de l'École des Chartes, volumes I, pp. 209, 210, 345, 350, 429, 447. * F. By, « Famille van Dievoet : Artistes, de père en fils », in
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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. * Stéphane Castelluccio (éd.), ''Le commerce du luxe à Paris aux xviie et xviiie siècles, échanges nationaux et internationaux'', Paris, Peter Lang, 2009, p. 241. * Paul Micio, ''Les Collections de Monsieur frère de Louis XIV'', Paris : Somogy éditions d'art, 2014, p. 47, note 169 et p. 321. {{Subject bar, commons=y, commons-search=Vandive family, portal1=France, portal2=Biography, portal3= French noble families Noble families History of Paris