The Leyniers family 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. Many members of this family also participated in the management of the city of Brussels and were part of the magistracy either in the Guilds or in the Seven Noble Houses.
History
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 and the rest of the world have tapestries from their workshops in their collections. Several members were part of the Drapery Court of Brussels. 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. The Leyniers family who participated with honor in the Resistance paid a heavy tribute to the defense of the fatherland during the Second World War and was decimated by the German occupation, murdered in the concentration camps or by firing squads.
Members
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.
Marc Leyniers, engineer at Sofina then printer in Brussels born April 25, 1887, resistant, died in deportationfor the Fatherland in Lübeck. 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 June 11, 1905 in Forest, resistant, died at the Bergen-Belsen camp, died for Belgium.
Jean Auguste Daniel Leyniers, born June 21, 1909, resistant, shot by the Germans in the Tir national of Brussels, died for Belgium on February 17, 1944.
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Heraldry
Allied families
Authority
Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at :fr:Famille Leyniers; see its history for attribution.
