Werner van den Steen de Jehay

Werner van den Steen de Jehay (11 July 1854, Ghent – 1 October 1934, Rome) was a Belgian diplomat. He was of noble birth, and had missions in Belgrade and Rome. He was ambassador of Belgium to Italy from 1919 to 1924.

Family

Werner van de Steen is the son of Louis van den Steen de Jehay (1812-1864) and Alix Mélanie Célestine (v. 1828–1859), countess of Gourcy Serainchamps.

He married Marguerite Julien (1868-1951), and together they had two children.

• Herbert (1896-1958). Married Jeanne Gabrielle Bertha Hoepfner (1900-1978) 30 April 1931 in Paris, 19th arrondissement^[1].
  • Serge (born 1923). x1 Claude Ruffin (born 1931) 23 April 1957 ; x2 Annie Bonivert ; x3 (7 November 1964) Josette Weerts (born 1928)
  • Béatrice (born 1930). Married Frédéric Sépulchre (Jupille-sur-Meuse, 10 August 1929 - Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, 29 February 2016^[2]) 12 June 1952. Produced six children^[3].
  • Jérôme Herman Ernest Gaëtan vdS (born in Paris, 10th arrondissement, 15 August 1933 - 2014). x1 (30 November 1957 in Méan ; religious marriage in Bruxelles on 20 December 1957) Marie-Antoinette Louise Jeanne Ghislaine Josèphe du Bois de Bounam de Ryckholt (born 31 January 1937, Etterbeek) ; x2 Marie-Jeanne Lemonde-Vanden Bruel.
• Guy vdS de Jehay (1906-1999).

Works

• Rapport sur la production et le commerce des lins dans la Grande Bretagne et en Irlande, Impr. des travaux publics, 1893.
• Rapport sur les conditions de l'agriculture dans le Royaume-Uni, Impr. des travaux publics, 1893.

Honours

• 1922: Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Leopold II.