The House of Sweerts or Sweerts Lineage (French: Lignage Sweerts) is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels, along with Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Steenweeghs, Coudenbergh, Serroelofs, and Roodenbeke.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).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.
The Sweerts House was charged with the defence of the Flanders Gate, and was assisted as of 1422 by the Nation of St Giles.
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The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels
The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels (, ) were the seven families of Brussels whose descendants formed the city's patrician class, to whom special privileges were granted until the end of the Ancien Régime. Together with the Guilds of Brussels, they formed the city's bourgeoisie.
Notable people +NameBirthDeathAdmitted Known forRef.Henri Van der Noot7 January 173112 January 182713 June 1757Jurist, lawyer, and politician who was one of the leading figures of the Brabant Revolution.
See also History of Brussels
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