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Eugène Beyens
Beyens de Grambais is a Dutch- Belgian family of nobility, with a branch settling in the Southern Netherlands in the early 17th century. A Brabant family The Beyens family originates in the North Brabant in the Netherlands. * I. Godefroid Beyens, Lord of Drummel and Provost of the brotherhood of the Holy-Virgin in 's-Hertogenbosch. He is included i''Nederlandsch geslacht- stam- en wapenboek''of Abraham Ferwerda (1785) who writes: "Godefroid Beyens, knight, lived in 1402 and married Maria van Breugel daughter of Jan and Maria Spierinek." The Family Beyens had then as weapons: ''Of silver to the Lion of azure, lampassé, lit and armed with gold, with the tail forked and passed in saltire.'' This ecu is reproduced on the funeral coat of arms of Jean van de Velde, Councillor of 's-Hertogenbosch, deceased in 1644. * II. Henri Beyens, Lord of Drummel and son of Godefroid, married Catherine van Middegaal. * III. Gooswyn, married Agnès Lijckmans. * IV. Dominique Beyens, known as Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of The Netherlands
The national flag of the Netherlands () is a horizontal tricolour (flag), tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the late 16th century orange-white-blue ''Prince's Flag, Prinsenvlag'' ("Prince's Flag"), evolving in the early 17th century as the red-white-blue ''Statenvlag'' ("States Flag"), the naval flag of the States General of the Netherlands#Dutch Republic, States-General of the Dutch Republic, making the Dutch flag the oldest Tricolour (flag), tricolour flag in continuous use. As a flag that symbolises the transformation from monarchy to republic, it has inspired both the derivative Flag of Russia, Russian flag, and after the French Revolution in 1789, the vertically striped Flag of France, French tricolour; both flags in turn influenced many other tricolours. During the 1920s and the economic crisis of the 1930s, the old Prince's Flag with the colour orange gained some popularity among Dutch Reformed Church, Protestants, Orangis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artois
Artois ( , ; ; Picard: ''Artoé;'' English adjective: ''Artesian'') is a region of northern France. Its territory covers an area of about 4,000 km2 and it has a population of about one million. Its principal cities include Arras (Dutch: ''Atrecht''), Saint-Omer, Lens, and Béthune. It is the eponym for the term ''Artesian''. Location Artois occupies the interior of the Pas-de-Calais ''département'',"Artois" in '' The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th ed., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 607. the western part of which constitutes the former Boulonnais. Artois roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Arras, Béthune, Saint Omer, and Lens, and the eastern part of the arrondissement of Montreuil. It occupies the western end of the coalfield which stretches eastward through the neighbouring Nord ''département'' and across central Belgium. History Originally a feudal county itself, Artois was annexed by the county of Flanders. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyens (Belgian Family)
Beyens is a Belgian family of lawyers and diplomats, originating from Nazareth, Belgium, Nazareth near Deinze and admitted into the Belgian nobility in 1851. The Beyens family in Nazareth The name Beyens is frequently found in Nazareth, in Deinze and more generally in the Ghent area. In the early seventeenth century people named Beyens belonged to the notable personalities of the area. Livinus Beyens was mayor of Nazareth in 1625. In the first quarter of the 18th century, Franciscus Beyens, born in Nazareth on 7 August 1691, married Josine (Judoca) Van Acker. Franciscus was the son of Paulus Beyens, born in Nazareth 29 October 1659, and of Joanna Vermeersch and the grandson of Laurentius Beyens, born in Nazareth on 28 March 1630 and Petronella Wouters. The couple Beyens-Van Acker went on living in Wontergem near Deinze and had five children: * Petrus Beyens (born 21 January 1721) * Jean-François Beyens (born 18 January 1723) * Joseph Beyens (born 5 January 1725) * Jacobus Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aachen
Aachen is the List of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by population, 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants. Aachen is located at the northern foothills of the High Fens and the Eifel Mountains. It sits on the Wurm (Rur), Wurm River, a tributary of the Rur (river), Rur, and together with Mönchengladbach, it is the only larger German city in the drainage basin of the Meuse. It is the westernmost larger city in Germany, lying approximately west of Cologne and Bonn, directly bordering Belgium in the southwest, and the Netherlands in the northwest. The city lies in the Meuse–Rhine Euroregion and is the seat of the Aachen (district), district of Aachen ''(Städteregion Aachen)''. The once Celts, Celtic settlement was equipped with several in the course of colonization by Roman people, Roman pioneers settling at the warm Aachen thermal springs around the 1st cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderman
An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members themselves rather than by Direct election, popular vote, or a council member elected by voters. Etymology The title is derived from the Old English title of ''ealdorman'', which literally means "elder person", and which was used by the chief nobles presiding over shires. Similar titles exist in other Germanic languages, such as ' in Swedish language, Swedish, ' in Norwegian language, Norwegian, ' in Danish language, Danish and Low German, ' in West Frisian language, West Frisian, ' in Dutch language, Dutch, and ' in German language, German. Finnish language, Finnish also has ', which was borrowed from Swedish. All of these words mean "eld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houdeng-Gœgnies
Houdeng-Gœgnies () is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of La Louvière, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas .... Former municipalities of Hainaut (province) La Louvière {{Hainaut-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Galesloot
Louis Galesloot (1821–1884) was a Belgian archivist, historian and archaeologist. Life Galesloot was born in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean on 18 December 1821, one of the eight children of Eugène Galesloot and his wife.''Inventaris van het archief van Louis Galesloot'', State Archives of Belgium, pp. 5-6. His first job was with the civil registry of the city of Brussels, and in 1847 he started working for the Royal Commission for the Publication of Old Laws. On 21 March 1859 he was appointed head of the third section of the National Archives of Belgium. He remained in this position until his death, inventorising many of the holdings of judicial and administrative institutions of the pre-1800 Duchy of Brabant. In 1862–1863 he published the records of the trial of Frans Anneessens in two volumes. Galesloot died on 23 July 1884. Publications * ''Recherches historiques sur la maison de chasse des ducs de Brabant et de l'ancienne cour de Bruxelles, précédées d'un aperçu sur l'ancien dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Victor Goethals
Félix Victor Goethals (1798–1872) was a Belgian genealogist and librarian. Life Goethals was born in Ghent ( Département Escaut) on 4 June 1798 (16 Prairial of Year VI in the French Republican calendar). He studied law at Ghent University and interned at the public prosecutor's office in Brussels.F. Remy, "Goethals (Félix-Victor)", ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 33(Brussels, 1965), 375-376. From 1827 he worked as assistant librarian in Brussels city library, becoming head librarian in 1830. In 1842 the city sold its library collection to the Belgian state, and Goethals was responsible for transferring the holdings to the Royal Library of Belgium. The core of the Royal Library's holdings was the collection of Charles van Hulthem Charles Joseph Emmanuel van Hulthem (17 April 1764 – 16 December 1832) was a bibliophile from the Low Countries whose collection of books provided the first kernel of the Royal Library of Belgium. Life Charles was born in Ghent in the Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of Provinces of the Netherlands, twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. It shares Maritime boundary, maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium. The official language is Dutch language, Dutch, with West Frisian language, West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English_language, English, and Papiamento are official in the Caribbean Netherlands, Caribbean territories. The people who are from the Netherlands is often referred to as Dutch people, Dutch Ethnicity, Ethnicity group, not to be confused by the language. ''Netherlands'' literally means "lower countries" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouret-sur-Canche
Bouret-sur-Canche (, literally ''Bouret on Canche''; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. Geography A farming village located 20 miles (32 km) west of Arras on the D329 road, by the banks of the river Canche. Population Sights * The church of St. Vaast, dating from the eighteenth century. * An eighteenth-century chapel. See also *Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department The following is a list of the 887 communes of the Pas-de-Calais department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): References Communes of Pas-de-Calais {{Arras-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
