Country Kingdom of Belgium Founded ±1600 | Titles Knight
Squire Ethnicity French | |
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Estates Castle of Von, Châteauroux
(France) (1650-1799)
Castle of Wilryck
(Belgium)(1836-1842)
Cornet Castle, Soignies
(Belgium) (1860-1958) | ||
Parthon de Von olim Parthon is a family of the Belgian nobility.
Contents
- Origin
- Personalities
- Seigneurial domains owned
- Orders and Honors received
- Alliances
- Cemetery of Laeken
- References
The family stems from the city of Châteauroux in France, where Michel Parthon became the first Lord of the seigneurial domain of Von in 1720. It gave its name to two streets in Saint-Maur (Indre), rue de Von and chemin du moulin de Von.
After holding land management offices in the Duchy of Châteauroux since the 16th century, the family produced mayors, lawyers, Members of Parliament, advisors to the king, a president of canton, an inventor and diplomats.
The coat of arms of the family is blazoned as: "Azure, on a bend Argent, three pine cones of the field ", the motto is "Cedant arma togae". The family bears the title of knight, transmitted through male descent by order of primogeniture.
Origin
Charles Emmanuel Joseph Poplimont in Belgium Heraldry (1866) wrote that "the family enjoyed in France the nobility before the age of Louis XIV" and gives the title of "knight" to Sulpice-Etienne Parthon, advisor and advocate to the King during the bailiwick of Châteauroux.
The family held land management offices in the Duchy of Châteauroux from the 16th to end of the 18th century. When the revolution of 1830 broke out in France, Édouard Parthon Von (1788-1877) was Vice-Consul of France in Ostend but resigned from his position and moved to Belgium, not willing to join the new regime. He later received citizenship by Royal Decree on June 18, 1844, and a confirmation of nobility with the title of knight by letters patent of January 2, 1845 of King Leopold I of Belgium.
Personalities
Seigneurial domains owned
The first Lord of Von was Michel Parthon, colonel in 1715, and son of Pierre, lawyer, mayor of Châteauroux in 1664. After his death Sulpice-Étienne Parthon inherited the domain. The castle of Von is between the cities of Saint-Maur and Châteauroux.
Orders and Honors received
Alliances
Blanchard, Pelletier (1749), Legrand (1772), Thoinnet de la Turmelière (1779), van de Velde (1813), de Coopmans (1849), Cogels (1871), Fontaine de Ghélin (1880), du Bois (1880), de Séjournet de Rameignies (1905), de la Kethulle de Ryhove (1928), de Bonnières (1962)., Béchet de la Péschardière (1984).
Cemetery of Laeken
In 1847, the family buys acquires a vault in the cemetery of Laeken in the North of Brussels, Belgium. Amélie de Coopmans-Yoldi, Jeanne van de Velde, the baron Vivario de Ramezée, Édouard, Alphonse-Henri, Jenny, Gabrielle, Louise Hélène, Édouard-Émile and Édouard-Henri are inhumed in the tomb.