Cluysenaar family

The Cluysenaar is a Belgian family notably of architects and artists.

History

Signature of Jean-Pierre on the Galeries Royales, Brussels
Selfportrait of Andre Edmond Alfred Cluysenaar, ca. 1910.
Klausener grave, Heißbergfriedhof Burtscheid.

The roots of this Catholic family originate in Tirol, Flirsch. Some famous people descend from the original branch, among them Erich Klausener who was killed in the Night of the Long Knives.

The Belgian branch of the family descends from Paulus Klausener, whose son Johannes-Petrus was an architect.[1]

Joannes, an engineer in the Netherlands, was married to Gerinda Geritsen. They are the parents of Jean-Pierre.

  • Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar, he was married first in 1830 to Elisabeth Puttaert and second to Adelaide Puttaert.
    • Gustave
    • Adèle Clotilde Cluysenaar: married to Gustave Jean-Jacques Saintenoy, royal architect of the Count of Flanders.
      • Paul Pierre Jean Saintenoy, architect married to Louise Ponselet, she was the daughter of Victor Nicolas Auguste Ponselet (brewer in Anderlues) and Aurore Pourbaix. ( her aunt Stephanie Pourbaix was married to Jan Verhas, founder of the School of Dendermonde )
        • Jacques Saintenoy, architect married to Simone van den Perre.[2]
        • Jacqueline Saintenoy (1900–1978), married to the executed Pierre Pucheu, former French Minister of the Interior.
    • Jean André Alfred Cluysenaar (1837–1902) married to Marie-Thérèse Cornélis.

Family tree

Paulus Klausener
Gerinda GeritsenJohannes Kluysenaar
(1796–1834)
Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar
(1811–1880)
GustaveAdèle-Clothilde
(1843–1901)
Gustave Jean-Jacques Saintenoy
(1832–1892)
Jean André Alfred Cluysenaar
(1837–1902)
Marie-Thérèse Cornélis
Louise PonseletPaul Pierre Jean Saintenoy
(1862–1952)
Alice GordonAndré Edmond Alfred Cluysenaar
(1872–1939)
Jacques Saintenoy
(1895–1947)
Jean Edmond Cluysenaar
(1899–1986)
Sybil Fitzgerald Hewat
Walt JacksonAnne Alice Andrée Cluysenaar
(1936–2014)

References

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