Parthon de Von
Noble family
Coat of arms
Country	France  Belgium
Founded	1575 (1575)
Current head	François Parthon de Von
Titles	Knight, Esquire
Distinctions	List Legion of Honour National Order of Merit Order of the Crown Medal of French Gratitude Order of Isabella the Catholic Order of the Lily
Traditions	Roman Catholicism
Motto	Cedant arma togae ('Weapons yield to togas')
Properties	List Château de Von Château de Middelheim Chäteau du Cornet

The Parthon de Von family stems from the historical province of Berry, France. Its documented ancestry dates back to 1575 and distinguished itself in administration, justice, and diplomacy.

History

In Belgium (since 1830)

The family Parthon de Von settled in Belgium in the early 19th century with Édouard Parthon de Von, born in Nantes on April 1, 1788. Appointed consul of France in Ostend in 1815, made knight of the French Legion of Honour in 1827 he was appointed consul of France in Antwerp in 1829. After the July Revolution in 1830, he refused to serve the new government and resigned as consul of France.^[10] He settled near Anvers to the Château de Middelheim and he devoted himself to horticulture and writing. He published a book of fables in 1843.^[10] The Belgian horticulturist Charles Morren dedicated to him the Orchiaceae Parthoni.

Knight Edouard Parthon de Von (1788-1877) by Jean-Urbain Guérin

The orchid malaxis Parthoni was named after the family.

From his marriage on May 31, 1813 to Jeanne Catherine Victoire van de Velde, Édouard Parthon de Von had a daughter and two sons, Édouard and Édouard-Henri, naturalized Belgians and ennobled by letters patent dated January 2, 1845.^[11] · ^[12]

The family settled in Anvers, Soignies, Tournai and Brussels. Alphonse-Henri Parthon de Von became burgomaster of Horrues in 1890, his son Edouard-Joseph Parthon de Von was Vice-consul of Spain and Argentina in Tournai.^[13] One of its member was a prisoner of war during World War II, etc.

Genealogy

The Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique (1851) gives the following filiation for the first degrees of the Parthon de Von family:^[12]

Château de Middelheim property of the Parthon de Von family from 1836 to 1842

Properties

• Château de Midelhein near Antwerp (from 1836 to 1842)^[15]
• Château du Cornet in Soignies (from 1860 to 1954)^[16]

Nobility

• In Belgium, by royal decree of June 18, 1844 and letters patent of January 2, 1845 Édouard Parthon de Von and his brother Édouard Henri Parthon de Von received a confirmation of nobility and an ennoblement as needed.^[17][11]
• By letters patent of January 2, 1845 Édouard Parthon de Von was granted the title of knight, transmissible in the male line by primogeniture.^[11] This branch remains.
• By letters patent of June 25, 1871, Édouard Henri Parthon de Von was granted the title of knight, which will be carried by all his male descendants.^[11] This branch is extinguished.^[18]

In a letter dated July 19, 1843 addressed to the Prince of Ligne, Belgian Ambassador to France, François Guizot, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote "There is no doubt about the right exercised by Mr. Parthon de Von, today Honorary Consul of France, to bear since the first years of the Restoration the title of Chevalier. He belonged to a noble family, which nobility even before the century of Louis XIV (…) and even if this family had not enjoyed nobility at that time, possession would have been acquired at that time. branch from which the plaintiffs descend, because one of their ancestors, general counsel for the requests of the hotel dependent on the Parliament of Paris, would have benefited from the benefit of a royal ordinance dated November 6, 1657, by which they are declared noble and their posterity, those of the lawyers, advisers and masters of requests of the hotel who would not be from noble race..."^[19]

Medals & Honors

Heraldry

Coat of arms of Parthon de Von family

Coronet Ensigned with a hereditary knight coronet, surmounted by an argent helmet Crest Azure, on a bend argent Escutcheon Three proper pine cones pendent of the first Supporters Collared by gold, torse and mantling azure and argent Motto Cedant arma togae (Latin for "Weapons yield to togas")

Sepulture

It holds a perpetual concession for its members in the Laeken Cemetery in Brussels, Belgium.

Alliances

Bilhon (1608), Catherinot (1643), Basset, Thoinnet de La Turmelière (1779), Van de Velde (1813), de Coopmans(1849), Cogels, Fontaine de Ghélin (1880), du Bois (1880), de Séjournet de Rameignies (1905), de La Kethulle de Ryhove (1928), de Bonnières (1962), Béchet de La Peschardière (1984), d'Eimar de Jabrun, Thélot (2012), Fayet (2013), Bernard etc.

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