The Parthon de Von family is a Belgian noble family coming from Châteauroux in France, where since the 16th century its members held offices in the judiciary and in the waters and forests office. 

Its filiation goes back to Étienne Parthon, bourgeois of Châteauroux, born in 1575 and married in 1608 to Marguerite Bilhon who were the parents of Etienne Parthon, born and baptized on May 28, 1610 in Châteauroux.

Sulpice Étienne Parthon, consel and king's lawyer of the Baillywick of Châteauroux became in july 1786 advocate general of the requests of the King’s Hotel.

The family was naturalized Belgian in the 20th century and received in Belgium in 1845 a confirmation of nobility and an ennoblement as needed and received the title of knight in 1845 for a surviving branch and in 1871 for an extinct branch.

History

In Châteauroux (France) 
The proven filiation of the Parthon family go back to the XVIth century in Châteauroux in France where its members held some offices in the judiciary and in the Waters and Forests of the Duchy of Chateauroux.

Étienne Parthon, surgeon and bourgeois of Châteauroux, born in 1575 married in 1608 Marguerite Bilhon. They son Etienne Parthon was born and baptized on May 28, 1610 in Châteauroux.

Pierre Parthon (1649-1727), bourgeois of Châteauroux married to Anne Basset is mayor of Châteauroux en 1689.

Michel Parthon, one of the leaders of the bourgeois militia of Châteauroux, was lord of Von. 

Étienne-Sulpice Parthon (1714-1793) married to Marie Pelletier belonged to the administration of Châteauroux as notable of the city in 1776. He was consel and king's lawyer of the bailiwick of Châteauroux and became in July 1786 advocate general of the requests of the King’s Hotel.

In Belgium (since 1830) 

The family Parthon de Von settled in Belgium in the early 19th century with Édouard Parthon de Von, born in Nantes on April 1, 1788. Appointed consul of France in Ostend in 1815, made knight of the  French Legion of Honour in 1827 he was appointed consul of France in Antwerp in 1829.  After the July Revolution in 1830, he refused to serve the new government and resigned as consul of France. He settled near Anvers to the Château de Middelheim and he devoted himself to horticulture and writing. He published a book of fables in 1843. The Belgian horticulturist Charles Morren dedicated to him the Orchiaceae Parthoni.

From his marriage on May 31, 1813 to Jeanne Catherine Victoire van de Velde, Édouard Parthon de Von had a daughter and two sons, Édouard and Édouard-Henri, naturalized Belgians and ennobled by letters patent dated January 2, 1845.

The family settled in Anvers, Soignies, Tournai and Brussels. Alphonse-Henri Parthon de Von became burgomaster of Horrues in 1890, his son Edouard-Joseph Parthon de Von was Vice-consul of Spain and Argentina in Tournai. One of its member was a prisoner of war during World War II, etc.

Généalogy 
The Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique (1851) gives the following filiation for the first degrees of the Parthon de Von family: 
 Sulpice Étienne Parthon (1714-1793), married to Marie Pelletier, consel and king's lawyer in the bailliage of Châteauroux, then advocate general of the requests of the King’s Hotel.
 François Sulpice Parthon de Von (1753-18..), artillery officer, married to Andrée Marguerite Jeanne Rosalie Thoinet aka Thoinnet de la Turmelière.
 Édouard Parthon de Von (1788-1877), married to Jeanne Catherine Victoire Van de Velde (1796–1847).
 Knight Édouard Parthon de Von (1814), married in 1849 to Amélie de Coopmansof which surviving offspring.
 Knight Édouard Henri Parthon de Von (1819-1892) (extinguished branch).

Properties 
 Château de Midelhein near Antwerp (from 1836 to 1842) 
 Château du Cornet in Soignies (from 1860 to 1954)

Ennoblement and title of knight
 In Belgium, by royal decree of June 18, 1844 and letters patent of January 2, 1845 Édouard Parthon de Von and his brother Édouard Henri Parthon de Von received a confirmation of nobility and an ennoblement as needed.
 By letters patent of January 2, 1845 Édouard Parthon de Von was granted the title of knight, transmissible in the male line by primogeniture. This branch remains.
 By letters patent of June 25, 1871, Édouard Henri Parthon de Von was granted the title of knight, which will be carried by all his male descendants. This branch is extinguished.

In a letter dated July 19, 1843 addressed to the Prince of Ligne, Belgian Ambassador to France, François Guizot, French  Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote "There is no doubt about the right exercised by Mr. Parthon de Von, today Honorary Consul of France, to bear since the first years of the Restoration the title of Chevalier. He belonged to a noble family, which nobility even before the century of Louis XIV (…) and even if this family had not enjoyed nobility at that time, possession would have been acquired at that time. branch from which the plaintiffs descend, because one of their ancestors, general counsel for the requests of the hotel dependent on the Parliament of Paris, would have benefited from the benefit of a royal ordinance dated November 6, 1657, by which they are declared noble and their posterity, those of the lawyers, advisers and masters of requests of the hotel who would not be from noble race..."

Heraldry

Sepulture 
It holds a perpetual concession for its members in the Laeken Cemetery in Brussels, Belgium.

Alliances 
Bilhon (1608), Catherinot (1643), Basset, Thoinnet de La Turmelière (1779), Van de Velde (1813), de Coopmans(1849), Cogels, Fontaine de Ghélin (1880), du Bois (1880), de Séjournet de Rameignies (1905), de La Kethulle de Ryhove (1928), de Bonnières (1962), Béchet de La Peschardière (1984), d'Eimar de Jabrun, Thélot (2012), Fayet (2013), Bernard etc.

References

Resources

Bibliography 
 Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, Volume 5, 1851, page 248.
 Charles Poplimont, La Belgique héraldique,, tome 8, 1866, page 266.</ref>
 La noblesse belge, Partie 1, 1893, page 234.
 baron Fernand de Ryckman de Betz, Armorial général de la noblesse belge, H. Dessain, 1957, page 356.
 Oscar Coomans of Brachène, this State of the Belgian nobility, the 1979 Yearbook, second part P-Pos, Brussels, 1979.
 Grands notables du Premier Empire : Indre, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1994.
 Jean-François Houtart, Belgium Old families, LXI Collection of the Royal Family Office Association and heraldry of Belgium, Brussels, 2008.

Related articles 
 List of Noble families in Belgium
 Belgian Nobility

Surnames
Belgian noble families