d'Harscamp

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The d'Harscamp were a Belgian aristocratic family from the Namur region, who were Counts of . They became wealthy during the Thirty Years' War through possession of the secret of how to cast cannon in a single piece. They endowed many local charitable institutions and a main street of Namur is named after them.

Family members[]

Jeanne d'Harscamp, Dowager Duchess of Beaufort-Spontin, hosted Louis XIV of France at her chateau at Freÿr, when the was signed.

Charles-Francois de Paule, Baron d'Harscamp (1669-1736) was Mayor of Namur and then Lieutenant Governor from 1732 to his death. In 1711 he married Marie Isabelle, Comtesse d'Argenteau. They had five children:

• Charles-Antoine, lieutenant mayor of Namur;
• Marie-Thérèse-Isabelle, (1712-1782), who married Baron Heinrich von Blumenthal and as Baroness von Blumenthal was head of the household of Princess Heinrich of Prussia. A sculpture of her by Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert was destroyed by allied bombing.
• Charles-Joseph, who was killed at war;
• Henri, who was also killed at war;
• François-Pontian, who married Isabelle Brunelle (1724-1805), a noted philanthropist, whose statue is to be seen in Namur.

References[]

• Soc. Archéologique de Namur, t. XIV, BORMANS, Généalogie des Harscamp.