title: Poot family
text: # Poot family
  
  The Poot family is a family that was admitted to the bourgeoisie of Brussels and from 1753 was registered among the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels.
  
  ## The seven noble houses of Brussels
  
  The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels (French: sept lignages de Bruxelles, Dutch: zeven geslachten van Brussel) were the seven families of Brussels whose descendants formed the patrician class of that city, and to whom special privileges in the government of that city were granted until the end of the Ancien Régime.
  
  The house from which the family descend :
  
  * House of Sweerts
  
  ## Heraldry
  
  * Poot family
  * Struelens family
  * Poot family quartered with the arms of the Struelens family
  * Poot Baudier family
  