Before gaining ennoblement the Auxbrebis ancestors will have contributed to their uprising status; several family members held key positions within the magistrate or were mayor of Dinant.
The city was plundered and destroyed, which caused a negative effect on the local dinanderie industrie, a sad defeat for the Auxbrebis family.
The attack on Dinant is also known as 'the sac of Dinant'[14] Subsequently, later generations are known to live in other villages further away returning or involved in trades such as blacksmithing or of charcoal, others through marriage or purchase got into higher ranking positions in the nearby villages,[15][16] such as Aubrives,[17] Philippeville (Samart),[18] Wartet,[19] Weillen and others.
[20] An Auxbrebis branch is later also cited in Antwerp whom eventually moved to the Netherlands, including the capital city of Amsterdam.
[26] Jehan d'Aubrebis financed the church (Saint-Maurice) of Aubrives to have it rebuilt in 1642 after it had been destroyed during one of the sieges from the ford of Charlemont (Givet) in 1640.
Since the fifteenth century, castle names known to be occupied by the family are Fineval (Finnevaux),[30] Sommière, Chaleux and (Mazechal (ref.req)).
[34] In the seventeenth century several generations occupied Ferme-Château de Wartet and thereafter a castle gets taken over and extended in Weillen.