Marquess of Assche

The Margraveships still stands today and belongs to the House van der Noot.

Today the current Marquess of Assche still resides in Belgium.

The first Marquess of Assche was created in 1633 for the House of Cottereau,[1] a family of French origin and belonged to the high nobility of the Duchy of Brabant.

His father John II of Cottereau, Baron of Jauche was the lord Mayor of Brussels and married to Margueritte of Wideux, Lady of Assche.

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 Coat of the House of van der Noot.
The palace of the Marquess of Assche, in Brussels, by architect Alphonse Balat, originally a private residence, since 1948 seat of a superior court: the Belgian Council of State