House of Sweerts

Sweerts
Place of origin	Brussels

The Flanders Gate.

Sweerts crest : a high cap, cut like the shield; Supports: two satyrs.

Primitive Sweerts arms, still borne by members of this lineage around 1250

The House of Sweerts or Sweerts Lineage (French: Lignage Sweerts) is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels along with the Houses of: Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Steenweeghs, Coudenbergh, Serroelofs and Roodenbeke.[1][2][3][4]

The Sweerts House was charged with the defence of the Flanders Gate, seconded as of 1422 by the nation of Saint-Gilles.

Escutcheon

Party per pale pily of four and a half argent on gules.

The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels

Main article: 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.

Authority

Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Lignage Sweerts; see its history for attribution.

See also

• Seven Noble Houses of Brussels
  • House of Coudenbergh
  • House of Serroelofs
  • House of Roodenbeke
  • House of Sleeus
  • House of Serhuyghs
  • House of Steenweeghs
• Bourgeois of Brussels
• Guilds of Brussels

References

1. 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 pourl'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).
2. N. J. Stevens, Recueil généalogique de la famille de Cock, Brussels, 1855.
3. Vicomte Terlinden, "Coup d'oeil sur l'histoire des lignages de Bruxelles", in Présence du passé, vol. 2, 1949.
4. Baudouin Walckiers, PB, Filiations lignagères contemporaines, Brussels, 1999.