The House of Steenweeghs or Steenweeghs Lineage (

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: Lignage Steenweeghs) is one 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 ...

, along with Roodenbeke, Sleeus,

Serhuyghs The House of Serhuyghs or Serhuyghs Lineage (French: Lignage Serhuyghs) is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels along with the Houses of: Sleeus, Roodenbeke, Sweerts, Serroelofs, Steenweeghs, and Coudenberg.Baudouin Walckiers, PB, ''Fi ...

, Sweerts, Serroelofs and

Coudenberg The Palace of Coudenberg (french: Palais du Coudenberg, nl, Coudenbergpaleis) was a royal residence situated on the Coudenberg or Koudenberg (; Dutch for "Cold Hill"), a small hill in what is today the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. F ...

.Baudouin Walckiers, PB, ''Filiations lignagères contemporaines'', Brussels, 1999. The House of Steenweeghs was charged in 1383 with the defence of the Louvain gate, and was assisted as of 1422 by the nation of Saint-Jean.

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Noble houses

The

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(french: sept lignages de Bruxelles, nl, zeven geslachten van Brussel) were the seven families of

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whose descendants formed the city's

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class, to whom special privileges were granted until the end of the

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. Together with the

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they formed the city's

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Noble houses

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