De Lens family
# De Lens family

The de Lens family is a bourgeois family of Brussels of which a branch settled in Paris in the century of Louis XIV.

## Members

* Jean de Lens [fr] (1616-1689), goldsmith of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans.
* Jacques de Lens [fr] (1786-1846), doctor, founding member of the Academy of Medicine.

## Heraldry

Coat of arms of the de Lens family (Brussels and Paris) :

* EscutcheonQuarterly or and sable

## Family of the same name from Hainaut

* Anne de Lens, wife of Adrien de Dion, had her heart embalmed and deposited in a leaden reliquary in the Church of St. Jacques of Douai in 1580, where it was discovered during archaeological excavations in 2007.
