Vandive family

Vandive family
Van Dievoet,[1] Vandivout[2]
Coat of arms
Parent familyVan Dievoet family
CountryKingdom of France
French First Republic
Place of originBrussels, Spanish Netherlands
Founded17th century
FounderPhilippe Van Dievoet
Final headFrançois Gilles Vandive
TitlesEcuyer
TraditionsRoman Catholicism
Dissolution1802

The Vandive family (/vɒ̃dɪv/; or Van Dievoet called Vandive; in French: Van Dievoet dit Vandive) was a Parisian branch of the Van Dievoet family from Brussels, descended from goldsmith Philippe Van Dievoet, the elder brother of famous Brussels sculptor Peter Van Dievoet. The family were first bourgeois of Paris before becoming part of the French nobility.

Typographic mark of Guillaume Vandive, book printer of the Grand Dauphin, with his motto :
"HOC DUCE TUTA SALUS[3]", 1704.

This Parisian branch of the Van Dievoet family became extinct in 1802 with the death of François Gilles Vandive.[4]

  1. ^ in Brussels
  2. ^ first spelling used in France. Archives Nationales, notary Guillaume Charles BIOCHE, 1713 (étude XCVII), MC/ET/XCVII/438, fol. 61, constitution de tontine, émission 1759, 15 janvier 1761, M. Nicolas Felix Vandivout dit Vandive, ancien marchand orfèvre, Paris, domicilié paroisse Saint-Germain-L'auxerrois, as wel as MC/ET/XCVII/439, constitution de tontine, émission 1759, 3 mars 1761.
  3. ^ Translation : « with him as a guide your salvation is assured ». Motto in honor of the Grand Dauphin, with an allusion to the legend of Arion saved by a dolphin.
  4. ^ He was a property owner living rue des Lavandières n° 82 in Paris.