Jean-Martin Wendel

Jean-Martin Wendel (22 February 1665 – 25 June 1737) was a Lorraine industrialist, founder of the De Wendel steel making dynasty. Origins The name "Wendel" is derived from the Christian name Wendel or Wendelin (as in the town of Sankt Wendel in the Saar region). The de Wendel family can be traced back to Jean Wendel of Bruges, who married Marie de Wanderve around 1600. His son Jean-Georges Wendel, born on 8 October 1605 in Koblenz, married Marguerite de Hammerstein and became colonel of a regiment of Cravattes (Croatians) under the Emperor Ferdinand III. Jean-Georges's son Christian Wendel was born on 23 April 1636 in Koblenz, and became a lieutenant in the army of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine. In 1656 he married Dorothea Agnes Jacob, and in 1660 remarried, to Claire de Sansfeild. She was from an old family of the Duchy of Luxembourg. They had six daughters and three sons. The sons were Francois Wendel, who died on 23 February 1742 without heirs, Jean-Martin Wendel (1665–1737), who founded the industrial fortune of the family, and Jean-Baptiste Wendel, an advocate at the Parliament of Metz in 1721. Life