Marquess of Assche is a title belonging to the

Belgian nobility The Belgian nobility comprises Belgian individuals or families recognized as noble with or without a title of nobility in the Kingdom of Belgium. The Belgian constitution states that no specific privileges are attached to the nobility. History ...

, Assche is the old writing of the city of Asse. The Margraveships still stands today and belongs to the House ''van der Noot''. Today the current Marquess of Assche still resides in

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History

The first Marquess of Assche was created in 1633 for the House of Cottereau, a family of French origin and belonged to the high nobility of the

Duchy of Brabant The Duchy of Brabant was a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries, part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Neth ...

. First of the line was Guillaume I de Cottereau, 1st Marquess of Assche, ''Baron of Jauche'', ''Lord of Assche'' and ''Lord of Puisieux''. His father

John II of Cottereau, Baron of Jauche John of Cottereau, baron of Jauche, sometimes ''Van Coutereau'' Lord of Assche (died 17 September 1561), was the lord mayor of the City of Brussels in 1534. Family and Descendants He was born as the only son of John I of Cottereau, Baron of J ...

was the lord Mayor of Brussels and married to Margueritte of Wideux, Lady of Assche. He was followed by Henri François. The house of Cottereau kept the Margraveship for several generations until it changed to the family van der Noot, after the death of Marie Taye. The Marquess of Assche lived in Steenockerzeel Castle.

List of Marquess of Assche

House of Cottereau

# Guillaume I de Cottereau, 1st Marquess of Assche, (1560-1620).Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du Comté de Bourgogne: 1865 # Henri Francois de Cottereau, 2nd Marquess of Assche, died without issue. # Guillaume II de Cottereau, 3rd Marquess of Assche, (1615-1689). # John IV de Cottereau, 4th Marquess of Assche, (1670-1725). # Catherine Louise de Cottereau, 5th Marquess of Assche, (1705-1765) married to François Philippe Taye, Marquess of Wemmel. # Marie Josepha Taye, 6th Marquess of Assche, (1740-1820), Marquess of Wemmel she was married to count Jean-Antoine van der Noot.

House of van der Noot

# Maximiliaan Lodewijk van der Noot, (1764 - 1847) 7th Marquess of Assche and baron of Schoonhoven. died 18 March 1847. ## Theodore van der Noot, 8th Marquess of Assche # Charles-Antoine van der Noot # Edouard Dimitri van der Noot (1860 - 1928), 9th Marquess of Assche. #

Henri van der Noot Henri van der Noot, in Dutch Henrik van der Noot, and popularly called Heintje van der Noot or Vader Heintje (7 January 1731 – 12 January 1827), was a jurist, lawyer and politician from Brabant. He was one of the main figures of the Brabant Revo ...

, Marquess of Assche (1902-1952), marr. to Colette Allard. # Wauthier van der Noot, Marquess of Assche. # Henri II van der Noot, Marquess of Assche.

Other

* Elisabeth van der Noot d'Assche, daughter of Edouard Dimitri.

References

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