Coats of arms Vandenbempt.

Numerous families Vandenbempt in Flanders had armorial bearings.

Old coats of arms Vandenbempt.
New coat of arms.
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The old coats of arms VANDENBEMPT.

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The family van den Bempde from Brussels. (15th century)

Armorial bearings of Gilles van den Bempde, alderman and adviser of the city of Brussels (1479,1482,1495), :

"three roses".

Variations in this family included :

" two roses and two merlettes"
" two black small birds on a silver field, three gold roses on a blue field."

The descendants of Jan van den Bempde - de Pannemaker .
(16th century)

The armorial bearings of this family from Brussels :

In red a golden castle, with three small towers open and enlightened of red.
In blue five golden castles located 2, 1 et 2.
In a golden crest an emerging black eagle.
As helmet sign the emerging double eagle.

This family had branches in Holland (Amsterdam) and England.

Sir Vanden Bempde-Johnstone, Baron Derwent of Hackness.

This family has ancestors in Brussels.
Belonged to this family, amongst others :

George Vanden Bempde, third marquis of Annandale, Earl of Hartfell, Viscount of Annand, Lord of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale and Evendale.(mid 18th century)
Harcourt Vanden Bempde-Johnstone, created Baron Derwent of Hackness in 1881. ( " Lord Derwent." )

The descendants of Jan van den Beemde, married to van Pede. (1360)

Jan van den Beemde was born in Lier (1360) .
His descendants emigrated to, among other places, Antwerp, where the family name changed to :
van den Bempde and van den Bemden .

An heraldick certificate from 1710 (issued by the armorists J van den Leene and A.F. Jaerens) stipulated that the following coat of arms has been used for several ages by the family van den Bemden :

The family Van der Bempden or Van den Bempden from Sint-Truiden.
(16th century)

According to the armorial book of the city of Sint-Truiden, the family Van der Bempden or Van den Bempden had the following coat of arms :

The family Van der Bempde from Brabant.

Van der Bempde out of the formerly duchy of Brabant had the following coat of arms :
" of gold with a grazing cow of gules on a background of vert."

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The new coat of arms VANDENBEMPT.

The family association Vandenbempt applied for a new coat of arms in 1984.

The final registration of this coat of arms took place in 1987.

It appeared in the May 1987 issue of the " De Vlaamse Stam ", the monthly magazine of the Flemish society for genealogy in Belgium (VVF) .
The publication of the new coat of arms was the final step in the registration procedure of the new symbol , of the "Vanden Bempten from Brabant".

The new coat of arms is not quite that "new".

While designing the family coat of arms we relied on the old signs, whom we identified on the old coats of arms of different Vandenbempt families.
In the new coat of arms we make the link between past and present.

Description of the coat of arms..

The complete description of the coat of arms :

In vert a fork of silver, accompanied by three ox skulls of the same.
The shield topped with a helmet of silver, barred, collared and surround of gold, lined and fixed of gules, with wrought and covers of silver and vert.
As helmet topping two oxhorns, at right of sable, at left of gold.
As heraldic devise: " Nerstich ende Zelours " .

The motivation given to the design of the coat of arms.

The arms, the colour and the helmet topping were explained as follows:

The family coat of arms is "an explaining" coat of arms where the etymology of the surname Vandenbempt is illustrated :
"Bempt" = Beemd = grassland with abundant watersupply:
- two rivulets which integrate (= the fork)
- in the middle of the grassland. (= field of single = green colour.)
The ox skulls were borrowed from old VandenBempt family coats of arms.
As old symbol for the surname, there are three skulls pictured on the coat of arms, because Matthias vanden Bemde (the ancestor of the association) had three sons with descendants.
The helmet sign is also borrowed from an old family coat of arms and it indicates it is about a family Vandenbempt (black oxhorn) from Brabant (golden oxhorn).

The heraldic devise Nerstich ende Zelours is borrowed from Georgius vanden Beemde, Prior at Averbode and Priest at Tessenderlo. (start of the 17th century)
Nerstich ende Zelours means : diligent and persistent.

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Most recent update : 03/04/96.
Translation from Dutch into English by Yvo Vandenbempt, Opvelp.

For more information :
contact Vandenbempt G. or Vandenbempt L.