Noble families in Belgium - De Spoelberch and brewery AB InBev
Last week AB InBev and SABMiller announced that there was an agreement in principle about a take-over. The offer estimated SABMiller, the brewery of inter alia Pilsner Urquell, Grolsch, Foster's, Peroni and Miller on 96 billion Euro. SABMiller has two big shareholders: the group Altria and the Colombian family Santo Domingo. One member of the family Santo Domingo, Tatiana, married Andrea Casiraghi, the eldest son of the Princess of Hanover and the 4th in the line of succession of the Monegasque throne. So far the economic news and the Royals of Monaco. Did you know that some of the families behind AB InBev are aristocrats? The most famous is the noble family De Spoelberch (also called Van Spoelberch) & their family tree started already in the 14th. century. In 1636, Jan Baptist van Spoelberch was a warlord in service of the Holy Roman Emperor. Emperor Ferdinand II granted him the title of 'knight'. King Philip IV of Spa