Guillaume de Bette, 1st Marquess of Lede (c.1600– 23 June 1658), Baron of Péronne, Lord of Impe, Knight of Santiago, was a military commander and diplomat from the Spanish Netherlands.
His cousin, Françoise de Bette, was the 26th abbess of Forest Abbey.
[3][4] On 3 August 1633, his barony, Lede, was raised to a marquisate in recognition of his service to the Spanish Monarchy.
In 1655, he travelled to the Commonwealth of England on behalf of Philip IV of Spain in a vain attempt to head off Oliver Cromwell's Anglo-Spanish War.
The Marquess is also remembered in the village by a pair of 4-meter tall processional giants, Markies de Bette and Markiezin Anne-Marie de Hornes, created in honour of Bette and his wife in 1950.