
Baron Empain is a
title of nobility
Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy (class), aristocracy. It is normally appointed by and ranked immediately below Royal family, royalty. Nobility has often been an Estates of the realm, estate of the rea ...
of the
Kingdom of 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 southe ...
. The title was created in 1907 by
Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
Born in Brussels as the second but eldest-surviving son of King Leo ...
for
Édouard Empain, a wealthy Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist. The title is hereditary and descends to the senior male by
agnatic primogeniture
Primogeniture () is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit all or most of their parent's estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relat ...
.
The
Baron Empain Palace in Heliopolis, Cairo, was renovated and opened to public June 30, 2020.
Barons Empain (1907)
*
Édouard Empain, 1st Baron Empain (1852-1929)
* Jean Empain, 2nd Baron Empain (1902-1946)
*
Édouard-Jean Empain, 3rd Baron Empain (1937-2018)
*
Jean Francois Empain, 4th Baron Empain (b.1964)
References
Belgian barons
1907 establishments in Belgium
Noble titles created in 1907
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