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 [] (1616-1689), goldsmith of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans.
• Jacques de Lens [] (1786-1846), doctor, founding member of the Academy of Medicine.

Heraldry

Family of the same name from Hainaut

• 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.

See also

• Guilds of Brussels
• Bourgeois of Brussels
• Bourgeois of Paris

References

Authority

Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at ; see its history for attribution.

External links

• Genealogy of the de Lens family