title: De Lens family
text: # 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.
  