House of Hénin

(de) Hénin-Liétard
noble family
Country

Holy Roman Empire

County of Hainaut
Habsburg Netherlands
Spanish Netherlands
Austrian Netherlands

First French Empire
United Kingdom of the Netherlands

Kingdom of Belgium
Founder Thierry of Alcase
Titles

Lords of Gammérages
Lords of Wavrans
Barons of Cuvilliers
Barons of Fosseux
Barons of Liedekercke
Counts of Beaumont
Counts of Bossu
Marquesses of Alcase
Marquesses of La Veere

Princes of Chimay
Cadet branches de Hénnin de Cuvillers.[1]
Mausoleum of the Counts of Bossu
Pompa Funebris Albert VII
Coat of Cardinal d'Alcase

Hénin is an important major Belgian noble family,[2] an important branch was titled Prince of Chimay. Family connections were made with important Spanish noble families, amongst them the house of Borja and the house of Velasco.

The surname comes from the town of Hénin-Beaumont in Flanders, currentky France. in the 13th century the family grow in three different branches, the most important one the families of Hénin-Liétard d'Alcase and the branch of the lords of Bossu.[3]

The major family mausoleum ("Chapelle des Seigneurs") is located inside the Church of Boussu and considered one of the major artworks of Jacques du Broeucq.[4]

Members

Counts of Bossu

Pierre I de Hénin, Lord of Bossu † 1490: knight of the Golden Fleece.;
married to Isabeau of Lalaing.

    1. Philippe de Hénin, Lord of Bossu;
      married to Catherine of Ligne-Barbançon
      1. Jean V de Hénin, 1st Count of Bossu; knight of the Golden Fleece ;
        married to Anne of Bourgogne
        1. Charles de Hénin, 2nd Count of Bossu: No heirs.
        2. Maximilien de Hénin, 3rd Count of Bossu;
          married to Marguerite of Croy.
          1. Pierre II de Hénin, 4th Count of Bossu
        3. Jacques de Hénin, Marquess of la Veere;
          married to Marie of Hanaert, Baronnes of Liedekercke.
          1. Marie de Bossu;
            married to Otto von Brunswick.
          2. Anne de Bossu;
            married to Luis de Velasco y Velasco, 2nd Count of Salazar.
            1. Juan de Velasco, 2nd Marquess of Belveder;
            2. Anna de Velasco;
              married to Rasse de Gavre, 1st Marquess of Ayseau
          3. Hélène de Bossu;
            married to Íñigo de Borja
          4. Maximilien II de Hénin, 5th Count of Bossu and Marquess of la Vere;
            married to Alexandrine of Gavre.
            1. Eugène de Hénin, 6th Count of Bossu and Marquess of la Vere;
              married to Anna-Isabella of Arenberg, Princess of Chimay.[5]

Princes of Chimay

Philippe de Hénin, 7th Count of Bossu
10th Prince of Chimay, count of Beaumont, Marquess of la Veere and Baron of Liedekercke: Knight of the Golden Fleece.
Married to Anne-Louise Verreycken d'Impden.

    • Charles-Louis- Antoine de Henin-Liétard d'Alsace, 11th Prince of Chimay:
      married to Charlotte, the daughter of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon.
    • Cardinal Thomas d'Alcase,
      Archbishop of Mechelen .
    • Alexandre Gabriel Joseph de Hénin-Liétard, Marquess of La Verre
    • Marguerite-Therese d'Alcase, died 1693;
      married to don Domingo de Aquaviva de Aragon
    • Anne-Ernestine d'Alcase:
      Married to the Marques of Los Rios.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Notices historiques et chéraldiques sur la famille Henin de Cuvillers et sur les différentes maisons qui y sont mentionnées/Gill, 1789
  2. ↑ Dancoisne, Louis (2007). Recherches historiques sur Hénin-Liétard (in French). Paris: Le Livre d'histoire. ISBN 9782758601548.
  3. ↑ Administrator. "Chapelle funéraires des Seigneurs de Boussu". www.chateaudeboussu.be (in French). Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  4. ↑ http://www.boussu.be/ma-commune/tourisme-1/la-chapelle-des-seigneurs
  5. ↑ Dictionnaire de la noblesse ... de France
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