HERALD. BELGIUM. GAND Heraldic composition with... Lot 20

[HERALD]. [BELGIUM]. [GAND] Heraldic composition with painted coat of arms Rym de Bellem family and allied families Painted coat of arms on parchment, captioned in ink Belgium, Ghent (?), 17th century On the back, in pencil: "RYM Dimensions : 264 x 374 mm The Rym de Bellem family is an important patrician family of Ghent, very old (we go back to the crusader Baudouin de Rym in the 12th century). It gave several notables, magistrates and aldermen of Ghent. The arms of Rym are : Or with a lioness lion of Gules, armed, lampassed and crowned of azure. Among the notables in the 16th and 17th centuries, let us quote Charles Rym (died in 1583), lord of Bellem, ambassador of the emperor Maximilian II to the Sublime Porte. See Herckenrode (Baron), Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du Comté de Bourgogne, Ghent, 1865, pp. 1709- 1710: "Rym".