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The Vandive family (/vɒ̃dɪv/; or Van Dievoet called Vandive; in French: Van Dievoet dit Vandive) was a Parisian branch of the Van Dievoet family from Brussels, descended from goldsmith Philippe Van Dievoet, the elder brother of famous Brussels sculptor Peter Van Dievoet. The family were first bourgeois of Paris before becoming part of the French nobility.

Typographic mark of Guillaume Vandive, book printer of the Grand Dauphin, with his motto :
"HOC DUCE TUTA SALUS[3]", 1704.
Parent family
Van Dievoet family
Founded17th century
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Vandive family
Van Dievoet,[1] Vandivout[2]
Coat of arms
Parent family
Van Dievoet family
CountryKingdom of France
French First Republic
Place of origin
Brussels, Spanish Netherlands
Founded17th century
FounderPhilippe Van Dievoet
Final headFrançois Gilles Vandive
TitlesEcuyer
TraditionsRoman Catholicism
Dissolution1802
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This Parisian branch of the Van Dievoet family became extinct in 1802 with the death of François Gilles Vandive.[4]

Name

Depending on the source, the name of Philippe Van Dievoet was changed to Vandive either by the Dauphin[5] of whom he had been the jeweller, or by his father, King Louis XIV.[6] Before that, it was briefly written as Vandivout, in an attempt to frenchize the name.[7]

Members

Ennoblements

Two of its members benefitted from personal and/or hereditary ennoblements due to their functions and offices.

Heraldry

Coat of arms of the Van Dievoet family
Escutcheon
Per pale Argent and Sable, on a tower embattled of four merlons counterchanged and gated of the field between in chief two mullets of six-points Gules and Or and in base a crescent counterchanged, an escutcheon per pale Or and Gules charged with a dexter human foot sole counterchanged.[14][15]

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