Christophe Butkens
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Who is Christophe Butkens?
Christophe Butkens was a Cistercian abbot from Antwerp, historian and genealogist.
Butkens developed his own hatching system but it was used by him in an inconsequent way which led to the misunderstandings and the resultant sudden disappearance of this method. His hatching method is published in the book Annales genealogiques de la maison de Lynden, which was seen flagrant as it falsified the House of Lynden genealogy that was revealed already by Baron van Linden in 1891. However, his later work is seen as authentic. Spener maintained that the first heraldic hatching system was invented by Butkens. He was one of the censors of the 1636 book of Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz titled DeclaraciĆ³n Mystica de las Armas de EspaƱa which contains another hatching system.
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