Gilles van den Eynde
He contributed to the reconstruction of the Grand-Place in Brussels (then part of the Spanish Netherlands) in 1695. He was the owner of Le Cerf (Dutch: Het Hert, literally "the stag"), on the Grand-Place, the design of which the archivist Guillaume Des Marez also attributes to him. Following the disturbances which occurred in Brussels in May 1700, Gilles Van den Eynde was condemned, with eleven other bourgeois, to exile by the decision of the Council of Brabant of 28 May 1700, which also condemned to death two bourgeois, Arnould t' Kint, brewer, and Marc Duvivier, goldsmith.
Gilles van den Eynde
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- 1650
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- Belgium
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- architect
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He contributed to the reconstruction of the Grand-Place in Brussels (then part of the Spanish Netherlands) in 1695. He was the owner of Le Cerf (Dutch: Het Hert, literally "the stag"), on the Grand-Place, the design of which the archivist Guillaume Des Marez also attributes to him. Following the disturbances which occurred in Brussels in May 1700, Gilles Van den Eynde was condemned, with eleven other bourgeois, to exile by the decision of the Council of Brabant of 28 May 1700, which also condemned to death two bourgeois, Arnould t' Kint, brewer, and Marc Duvivier, goldsmith.
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However, they were granted amnesty a few days later by a letter of amnesty from the king conveyed by the Marquis de Bedmar.
Gilles van den Eynde (born 1650) is a Belgian architect.
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