page_title: Van Dievoet family
section_title: Brussels branch
hierarchical_section_title: Van Dievoet family / Brussels branch
context_page_description: The Van Dievoet family is a Belgian family originating from the Duchy of Brabant. It descends from the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels and its members have been bourgeois of that city since the 1600s. It formed, at the end of the 17th century, a now extinct noble Parisian branch called Vandive.
context_section_description: The Brussels branch is the only extant branch of the Van Dievoet family. It has produced notable merchants, artists, and architects, as well as prominent judges, lawyers and law historians.
caption: Statue of King James II in Trafalgar Square, London by Peter van Dievoet while he was working for the workshop of Grinling Gibbons. 1683.
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