House of 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.

[1][2][3][4] The Serhuyghs House was charged with the defence of the Hal gate, seconded as of 1422 by the nation of Notre-Laurent.

The Seven noble houses of Brussels (French: sept lignages de Bruxelles, Dutch: zeven geslachten van Brussel) were the seven families of Brussels whose descendants formed the patrician class of that city, and to whom special privileges in the government of that city were granted until the end of the Ancien Régime.

Together with the Guilds of Brussels they formed the Bourgeoisie of the city.

Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Lignage Serhuyghs; see its history for attribution.

The Hal gate in 1612
Engraving of the coat of arms of the House of Serhuyghs , one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels, from 1663 found in (J.-B. Christyn) - Iurisprudentia heroica sive de iure Belgarum [...] - Bruxellis, Balthasar Vivien, 1663.