de Lens family

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.

Coat of arms of the de Lens family (Brussels and Paris)
	Escutcheon Quarterly or and sable[1]

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.[2]

Henri Nocq, Le poinçon de Paris, Paris, 1926-1931, sub verbo.
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, (ISBN 978-2-271-07555-0), (ISSN 0153-9337)

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