{{Short description|Dutch noble family}} {{Infobox noble house | surname = Van (de) Renesse | type = noble family | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name = | coat of arms = 180px | image_size = | alt = | caption = | country = :22px Holy Roman Empire ::22px County of Zeeland :22px Dutch Republic :22px Batavian Republic :22px Kingdom of Holland :22px First French Empire :22px Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands :22px United Kingdom of the Netherlands :22px Belgium | estates = Renesse Castle<br>Castle of Warfusée<br>Castle Ellewoutsdijk<br>Castle Hellenburg | parent house = | titles = Lords of Renesse<br>Lords of Everingen<br>Lords of Baarland<br>Lords of Rhijnauwen<br>Lords of Gaesbeecq<br>Lords of Elderen<br>Counts of Warfusée<br>Viscounts of Montignies | founded = | founder = | current head = | dissolution = <!-- {{End date|YYYY}} --> | ethnicity = | cadet branches = Renesse-Warfusée(+)<br>Renesse-Breidbach (+) | notes = }}
The '''Van Renesse family''' is an old Dutch noble family and cadet branch of the Van Voorne Family (in Dutch) that stems from the town of Renesse in Zeeland.
==History== The eldest documented ancestor of the family is Jan, Heer (feudal baron) van Renesse (1267-1295), son of Costijn van Voorne, 1st Heer van Zierikzee.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tombe |first=Jacob Willem |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aghWAAAAcAAJ&dq=%22van+everingen%22+-everdingen&pg=PA96 |title=Het geslacht Van Renesse, van den oorsprong tot 1430 |year=1897 |page=115 |language=nl}}</ref> The Netherlands branch ended in 1855; the Belgian branch, Van Renesse van Elderen, resides in 'S-Herenelderen Castle (1540-present).<ref>Etat présent de la noblesse belge / 2009 p 352</ref>
==Heraldry== The Renesse coat of arms is depicted in the medieval Gelre Armorial (folio 84r).{{CN|date=November 2024}}
==Members== * John III, Lord of Renesse * Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (1836-1904), Belgian writer and entrepreneur.
===Lords of Warfusée=== * '''Jean VIII of Renesse, Lord of Warfusée ''' (1505-1549);<br>''married to Isabelle of Nassau; daughter of Henry III of Nassau-Breda''.<ref>Corneille Stroobant, ''Notice historique et généalogique sur les seigneurs de Tyberchamps'' (1851)</ref> ** René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée, *** Alexander de Renesse, Count of warfusée, Lord of Gaesbeecq. *** Florence-Marguerite de Renesse-Warfusée ****Philippe François de Berghes, 1st Prince of Grimberghen * '''Frederik I of Renesse''', born 1470 : Lord of Oostmalle;<br>''Married Anne of Halmale, Lady of Elderen and Warfusée''. * '''Frederik II of Renesse''', Lord of Elderen * '''René III of Renesse''', lord of Elderen; married to Catherin d'Arkel. * Claire de Renesse: married to Philippe II of Hornes, Lord of Bassignies : Imperial Lord Chamberlain.
==Sources== *''Nederland's Adelsboek'', 2004–2005, p. 153-165. * Oscar COOMANS DE BRACHÈNE, ''État présent de la noblesse belge'', Annuaire 1997, Brussel, 1997. * Jean-François HOUTART, ''Anciennes familles de Belgique''. Bruxelles, Office généalogique et héraldique de Belgique, 2008, p. 52.
==References== {{Reflist}}
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