The Leyniers family(/lɛnɪjɛ/) is a bourgeois family that appeared in Brussels in the 15th century and produced many high-level tapestry makers and dyers, experts in the art of dyeing in subtle shades the woolen threads destined for this trade.
Tapestry by Évrard Leyniers, Neptune gives birth to the horse by striking the earth with his trident, after a work by Jacques Jordaens, circa 1650-1660.
The members of the Leyniers family exercised their art of tapestry making until the last quarter of the eighteenth century and many museums in Europe[1][2] and the rest of the world[3][2] have tapestries from their workshops in their collections.
Daniel Leyniers was the last of this family to have exercised in this industry but despite all his efforts he was forced during the winter of 1767-1768 to definitively close his workshops. He then devoted himself to the manufacture of lace.
Antoine Leyniers, tapestrymaker, was the nephew by marriage of Bernard van Orley, he had married Josine, the daughter of his half-brother Gommaire. His mark is a monogram consisting of the letters A and L. We find this mark on "The History of Romulus" which adorns the large hall of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels.
Charles-Marie-Joseph Leyniers (1756-1822) wine merchant, living on St. Catherine Street, is one of the volunteers who joined the five Serments of the city in 1787, who, following Henri van der Noot, armed themselves against the Imperials during the Brabant Revolution: he was a volunteer of the Fencers, aggregated with the Serment of Saint-Michel.[5] He was a Freemason, a member of the Lodge of True Friends of the Union, in Brussels,[6] he married in the collegiate church Saints-Michel-et-Gudule on 6 November 1780, Marie-Elisabeth van Dievoet (1752-1828).
Marc Leyniers, engineer at Sofina then printer in Brussels, born on 25 April 1887, resistant, died in deportation for the Fatherland in Lübeck (Germany). He is the direct descendant of the painter Seger Jacobus van Helmont whose daughter Anne Catherine Jeanne van Helmont had married Henri Francois Joseph Leyniers. And his two sons:
Evrard Jacques Adolphe Leyniers, born on 11 June 1905 in Forest, resistant, died at the Bergen-Belsen camp, died for Belgium.
Jean Auguste Daniel Leyniers, born on 21 June 1909, resistant, shot by the Germans in the Tir national of Brussels, died for Belgium on 17 February 1944.
Coat of arms of the Leyniers family
Notes
These arms are those of the Leyniers branch that was ennobled by King Leopold II on 20 December 1906 and were modified from the original family arms that were used as early as 1713.
Adopted
1906
Crest
The same goat issant.
Torse
Argent and azure.
Helm
Argent, grilled, collared and edged or, doubled and stringed gules.
1878: Alphonse Wauters, Les tapisseries bruxelloises. Essai historique sur les tapisseries et les tapissiers de haute- et basse-lice de Bruxelles, Ve Julien Printer, Baertsoen, Bruxelles, 1878.
1978: Sophie Schneebalg-Perelman, «Les débuts de la tapisserie bruxelloise au XIVe siècle et son importance durant la première moitié du XVe siècle» in Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles, Volume LV, 1978.
1988: Michel Vanwelkenhuyzen and Pierre de Tienne, « Une famille de tapissiers bruxellois, les Leyniers », in: L'intermédiaire des généalogistes, Bruxelles, n°256, nov-déc 1988.
1992: Paul Begheyn, Abraham Leyniers: een Nijmeegse boekverkoper uit de zeventiende eeuw: met een uitgave van zijn correspondentie uit de jaren 1634-1644, Nimègue, Nijmeegs Museum ‘Commanderie van Sint Jan’, 1992.
2004: Koenraad Brosens, A Contextual Study of Brussels Tapestry, 1670-1770. The Dye Works and Tapestry Workshop of Urbanus Leyniers (1674-1747), Brussels: Academy Palace, 2004.
Royal Library, pamphlet of 1787, II 89480 A: Liste des noms des messieurs du comité et des messieurs les volontaires agrégés aux 5 serments en la ville de Bruxelles pour le maintien du bon ordre; and also: A.G.R. Corps de métiers et Serments de Brabant, anno 1787, n° 1012.
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