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Lords of Rubempré

Belgian feudal lords

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ42377968 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Lords of Rubempré were feudal lords, and the ancestors of the current Princes of Rubempré, belonging to the Belgian Nobility.

Rubempré is currently in Somme; Picardia; France. Baldwin is the First Lord of Rubempré mentioned in 1202. In the 16th century the family was allied to the house of Bourbon-Rubempré.

Lords of Rubempré

Princes of Mérode - Rubempré

The title was incorporated by heritage to the House of Mérode, who stil uses this title upon the current generation. The 2nd Prince inherited the feudal function of Grand Huntsman of Brabant.

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“Lords of Rubempré” enters the record as belgian feudal lords. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lords, Rubempré and Belgian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1202—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lords, Rubempré and Belgian.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q42377968. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1202.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lords of Rubempré” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.