Lopes Suasso

Lopes Suasso
Lopes Suasso
noble family
Country	Netherlands ; Portugal
Founded	16th century
Founder	Dr. Pedro Lopes Fránces
Dissolution	1970

Lopes Suasso (also: Lopes Suasso Diaz da Fonseca an: Lopis de Suasso) is the name of an important aristocratic Portuguese Jewish family that played an important role in banking.

History

The family history begins with dr. Pedro Lopes Fránces who moved to Libourne as a medical doctor. His grandson Antonio (1614-1685) was granted title of Baron of Avernas le Gras (Brabant) by Charles II of Spain. He moved to the Netherlands and en was parnas of the Portuguese-jewish community in The Hague. His descendants held important leading functions within the Portuguese-Jewish communities in the Netherlands. Through its banking activities, the family became one of the wealthiest families in the Netherlands. They are well known for having financed the Glorious Revolution

In 1818, 1821 and 1831 three members of the Lopes Suasso family were accepted into the Dutch nobility. They received the noble predict jonkheer. The last family member died in 1970.

The Lopes Suasso art collection became the foundation for the Stedelijk Museum of which Jan Eduard van Someren Brand (1856-1904) was the first curator.

Family

Antonio (alias Isaac Israël) Lopes Suasso, baron van Avernas le Gras (1614-1685), agent of King Charles II of Spain; married Rachel de Pinto (1629-1706)

Francisco Lopes Suasso (alias Abraham van Israel), baron van Avernas le Gras (ca. 1657-1710), banker and financier of the Glorious Revolution; maried Judith Teixeia (1669-1749)
- Pedro Lopes Suasso (alias Moses Israël) (1700-1742), married Rachel de Lima (1701-1733)
  - Antonio (alias Isaac) Lopes Suasso (1723-1776)
    - Pedro (alias Moses) Lopes Suasso (1752-1810); married in 1773 Rachel Diaz da Fonseca (1753-1836)
      - jhr. Antonio (alias Isaac Israël) Lopes Suasso Diaz da Fonseca (1776-1857), captain Horseguards and publicist; married Esther Elisabeth de Carteret. from a French aristocratic family.
      - jhr. dr. Diego Lopez Suasso (1778-1859), medical doctor and judge in Amsterdam.
        jhr. Augustus Pieter Lopez Suasso (1804-1877); married 1860 Sophia Adriana de Bruijn (1816-1890), founder of the Lopes Suasso art collection
- Jeronimo (alias Aaron) Lopes Suasso (1702-1740)
  - jhr. Moses (alias Moses van Israel) Lopes Suasso (1737-1818) married in 1761 his cousin Rachel Lopes Suasso (1740-1771), dochter van Francisco Lopes Suasso and Sara da Costa
    - jhr. Abraham Suasso da Costa (1764-1840), banker; married 1789 Elisabeth de Pinto (1767-1835)
      - jhr. Abraham Suasso de Pinto (1791-1862)
        jhr. Abraham Lopes Suasso (1818-1890), banker
        jhr. Emanuel Lopes Suasso (1853-1925), owner of the Gebr. Lopes Suasso company; married in1883 Anna Aletrino (1864-1945), sister of Arnold Aletrino and friend of Louis Couperus
        jkvr. Selima Lopes Suasso (1885-1970), last member of the family; married in 1906 Hendrik Alexander Cornelis van Booven (1877-1964), literature expert.
        
        jhr. Abraham Lopes Suasso (1855-1927), painter; married in 1878 his cousin Rebecca Henriques de Castro (1859-1935), daughter of David de Mozes Henriques de Castro and jkvr. Sara Lopes Suasso de Pinto
        jkvr. Céline Elisabeth Emma Lopes Suasso (1882-1958), painter; married in 1905 Christiaan Jacobus van Nievelt (1882-1954)
        
        jkvr. Elisabeth Lopes Suasso (1819-1881); married in 1840 Samuel Teixeira de Mattos (1818-1883)
        
        jkvr. Sara Lopes Suasso de Pinto (1822-1892); married in 1850 David van Moses Henriques de Castro (1826-1898), academic
      - jkvr. Rachel Suasso da Costa (1797-1848); married 1819 Jacob Bueno de Mesquita (1790-1865), merchant
    - jhr. Benjamin Lopes Suasso (1765-1839), banker
      - jhr. Moses Lopes Suasso (1803-1871), merchant, married in 1827 met Esther Henriques de Castro (1804-1880), painter
        jhr. David Lopes Suasso (1830-1879), industrialist
        jhr. Francisco Ephraïm Lopes Suasso (1864- Auschwitz 1944)
        jhr. David Gabriël Leonard Lopes Suasso (1891- Auschwitz 1943)
        
        jkvr. Anna Lopes Suasso (1867- Theresienstadt 1944); married in 1892 Jacques Emile Belinfante (1865-1941), book publisher.
        
        jhr. Isaac Lopes Suasso (1842-1904), stock broker
        jhr. Mozes Lopes Suasso (1880-1931), stock broker, married in 1927 Rachel Anna Mendes da Costa (1892- Sobibór 1943)
        
        jkvr. Esther Lopes Suasso (1881-1931); married in 1900 Bénoit Franco Mendes (1869- Auschwitz 1944), stock broker.
    - jhr. Jacob Lopes Suasso (1767-1830), president of the Portuguese-Jewish synagogue in The Hague.
      - jhr. David Lopis de Suasso (1815-1864).

Literature

Nederland's Adelsboek 94 (2009), p. 284-303.
Daniël Swetschinski, Loeki Schönduve, De familie Lopes Suasso, financiers van Willem III. Zwolle, 1988.