House of Roodenbeke
The House of Roodenbeke or Roodenbeke Lineage (French: Lignage Roodenbeke) is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels along with the Houses of: Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Steenweeghs, Sweerts, Serroelofs, and Coudenberg.[1][2][3][4]
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| Place of origin |  Brussels |
The Coudenberg House was charged with the defence of the Namur gate, seconded as of 1422 by the nation of Saint-Jacques.
Escutcheon
Argent, a bend wavy gules.
The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels
The Seven noble houses of Brussels (French: sept lignages de Bruxelles, Dutch: zeven geslachten van Brussel) were the seven families of Brussels whose descendants formed the patrician class of that city, and to whom special privileges in the government of that city were granted until the end of the Ancien Régime.
Together with the Guilds of Brussels they formed the Bourgeoisie of the city.
See also
References
- Joseph de Roovere, NPB, Le manuscrit de Roovere conservé au Fonds Général du Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Filiations reconnues sous l'Ancien Régime pour l'admission aux Lignages de Bruxelles, ed. M. Paternostre de La Mairieu, avec une introduction d'Henri-Charles van Parys, Grandmetz, 2 vol., 1981-1982 (Tablettes du Brabant, Recueils X et XI).
- N. J. Stevens, Recueil généalogique de la famille de Cock, Brussels, 1855.
- Vicomte Terlinden, "Coup d'oeil sur l'histoire des lignages de Bruxelles", in Présence du passé, vol. 2, 1949.
- Baudouin Walckiers, PB, Filiations lignagères contemporaines, Brussels, 1999.