The de Witte family is a Belgian noble family originating from the city of

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

.↑ Oscar Coomans de Brachène, État présent de la noblesse Belge, Annuaire de 1983, seconde partie, Wi - Zu, Collection "ETAT PRESENT" a. s. b. l., 1983.

Historey

Originally, it is believed that they were members of the

Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label=Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German to ...

. The oldest known family ancestor is (1464–1549), who was from Buerstede near Antwerp. A 1544 portrait of him, painted by a student of

Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger ( , ; german: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered o ...

, is exhibited in the ''

Rijksmuseum Twenthe The Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, the Netherlands, was founded in 1927 by textile industry Baron Jan Bernard Van Heek. He donated his own private collection and the museum building to the government, thus making it a national museum. The muse ...

'' in

Enschede Enschede (; known as in the local Twents dialect) is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border of the German city of Gronau ...

Some members

* alias Adrien de Witte (1464–1549) * alias Jacques-Antoine de Witte (1629–1688) *

Jean de Witte Baron Jean Joseph Antoine Marie de Witte (24 February 1808, Antwerp - 29 July 1889, Paris) was a Belgian archeologist, epigraphist and numismatist. He collaborated with François Lenormant in founding the Gazette archéologique at the Biblioth� ...

(1808–1889) - an archaeologist, epigraphist and numismatist *

Gaston-François de Witte Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at :fr:Gaston-François de Witte; see its history for attribution. Gaston-François de Witte (12 June 1897, Antwerp – 1 June 1980, Brussels) was a Belgian herpetologis ...

(1897–1980) - an herpetologist

References

Belgian noble families {{noble-stub