The de Lens family is a bourgeois family of Brussels of which a branch settled in Paris in the century of Louis XIV.
Members Jean de Lens [fr] (1616-1689), goldsmith of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. Jacques de Lens [fr] (1786-1846), doctor, founding member of the Academy of Medicine.
Heraldry
Family of the same name from Hainaut Anne de Lens, wife of Adrien de Dion, had her heart embalmed and deposited in a leaden reliquary in the Church of St. Jacques of Douai in 1580, where it was discovered during archaeological excavations in 2007.William Devriendt, Stéphane Venet, Ann Defgnée, Nicolas Garnier, Benjamin Gillet, Catherine Hänni, Loretta Rossetti, Découverte d’un cœur-reliquaire à Douai (ancienne église Saint-Jacques, place Carnot): Approche pluridisciplinaire de l’embaumement à l’époque moderne, Archéologie Médiévale, volume 42, 2012, 416 pages, CNRS Éditions, 2012, (), (ISSN 0153-9337)
See also Guilds of Brussels Bourgeois of Brussels Bourgeois of Paris
References
Authority Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at :fr:Famille de Lens; see its history for attribution.
External links Genealogy of the de Lens family