Van der Meulen family

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van der Meulen family (van der or vander) Molen, Moelen
Estate(s)	Fief of the Roetaert

The van der Meulen family of Brussels was an important bourgeois family of freshwater fish merchants. Many of its members were deans of the guild of freshwater fish merchants.

Fiefdom of the Roetaert on a map from 1741 by Charles Everaert, while it was owned by the van der Meulen family.

Properties and estates[]

They owned the fiefdom of the Roetaert^[1] as well as numerous fishponds and lakes, especially in the Sonian Forest, such as the famous Enfants Noyés ponds, which Elisabeth van der Meulen (1720–1769), wife of Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet (1704-1776), sold to the state in 1744.^[2]

Allied families[]

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See also[]

• Guilds of Brussels
• Bourgeois of Brussels

Notes and references[]

Further reading[]

• Daniel Leyniers, Genealogie der familie van der Meulen en Leyniers, manuscript book, 18th century, Archives of the City of Brussels, n° 2296.
• Sander Pierron, Histoire illustrée de la forêt de Soignes, vol. I, p. 62.
• Chloé Deligne, Bruxelles et sa rivière. Genèse d'un territoire urbain (12e - 18e siècle), Turnhout : Brepols, 2003, pp. 158, 159, 173, 176, 159, 160, 182, 193, 205