Vandive family


The Vandive family was a Parisian and elder branch of the Van Dievoet family from Brussels, descended from goldsmith Philippe Van Dievoet, the brother of famous Brussels sculptor Peter Van Dievoet. The family were first bourgeois of Paris before becoming part of the French nobility.
, book printer of the Grand Dauphin, with his motto :
"HOC DUCE TUTA SALUS", 1704.
This Parisian branch of the Van Dievoet family became extinct in 1802 with the death of François Gilles Vandive.

Name

Depending on the source, the name of Philippe Van Dievoet was changed to Vandive either by the Dauphin of whom he had been the jeweller, or by his father, King Louis XIV. Before that, it was briefly written as Vandivout, in an attempt to francise the name.

Members

Two of its members benefitted from personal and/or hereditary ennoblements due to their functions and offices.

Historically allied families