[5] It descends from the Seven Lineages of Brussels[6] and its members have been bourgeois (freemen) of that city since the 1600s.

[7] It formed, at the end of the 17th century, a now extinct Parisian branch which used the name Vandive.

[8] This family descends from Gillis van Dievoet[9] (d. before 1672), bourgeois of Brussels, who wed, in a first marriage on 13 November 1650, in the Chapel Church,[10] Catharina Slachmeulder.

[11] And, in a second marriage on 31 July 1660, in Saint Gudula,[12] Gertrudis Zeevaert.

It has produced notable merchants, artists, architects, athletes, and executives, as well as prominent judges, lawyers and law historians.