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Guillaume Wittouck (1749 - 1829) was a
Guillaume Wittouck (1749 - 1829) was a Belgian
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lawyer and High Magistrate. He was the Grandfather of industrialist Paul Wittouck and of Belgian navigator Guillaume Delcourt
Guillaume Delcourt (31 March 1825 – 2 February 1898) was a Belgian Royal Navy officer, navigator, naval engineer and maritime advisor to King Leopold II who was one of the major players of early Belgian expansion around the world.
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Biography
Guillaume Wittouck, born inDrogenbos
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on 30 October 1749 and died in Brussels on 12 June 1829, lawyer at the Brabant Council, became Counselor at the Supreme Court of Brabant in 1791. During the Brabant Revolution
The Brabant Revolution or Brabantine Revolution (french: Révolution brabançonne, nl, Brabantse Omwenteling), sometimes referred to as the Belgian Revolution of 1789–1790 in older writing, was an armed insurrection that occurred in the Austr ...
, he sided with the Vonckists
The Vonckists ( nl, Vonckisten) were a political faction during the Brabant Revolution led by Jan Frans Vonck, opposed to the more conservative " Statists".
History
The group emerged from the secret society ''Pro aris et focis'' in the 1780s, and ...
, who were in favor of new ideas. When Belgium joined France, he became substitute for the commissioner of the Directory at the Civil Court of the Department of the Dyle, then under the consulate, in 1800, judge at the Brussels Court of Appeal, then from 1804 to 1814, under the Empire
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, counselor at the Court of Appeal of Brussels, then advisor to the Superior Court of Brussels. He married in Brussels (Church of Saint Nicolas) on 29 June 1778, Anne Marie Cools, born in Gooik on 25 January 1754, died in Brussels on 11 April 1824, daughter of Jean Cools and Adrienne Galmaert descendants of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels
The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels (also called the Seven Lineages or Seven Patrician families of Brussels; french: Sept lignages de Bruxelles, nl, Zeven geslachten van Brussel, Latin: ''Septem nobiles familiae Bruxellarum'') were the seven f ...
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Guillaume Wittouck acquired on 28th Floreal of the year VIII (18 May 1800) the castle of Petit-Bigard in Leeuw-Saint-Pierre with a field of one hundred hectares.Philippe Farcy, ''100 châteaux de Belgique connus et méconnus'', Brussels, 2003, volume 2, pp. 76-77: (French) « Château Wittouck à Leeuw-Saint-Pierre. Ce domaine fut acheté en totalité (100 hectares), contre 45 000 francs le 28 floréal an VIII (1800) par Guillaume Wittouck, homme de loi, qui résidait rue du Grand Hospice à Bruxelles ». Petit-Bigard will remain the home of the elder branch until its sale in 1941.
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1749 births 1829 deaths Lawyers of the Habsburg Netherlands Flemish nobility Seven Noble Houses of Brussels 19th-century Belgian judges {{Belgium-bio-stub