What French noble family is originally from a northeastern French town, whose name is "Wirten" in medieval German, has surviving family members in Scandinavia, Spain, and Germany?
Verdun Verdun ( ; ] ; medieval German: "Wirten" , official name before 1970 "Verdun-sur-Meuse") is a small city in the Meuse department in Grand Est in northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department.
Bicker family Bicker (also: Bicker van Swieten and Bicker Caarten) is a very old Dutch patrician family ("since 1390"). The family have played an important role during the Dutch Golden Age. They were at the centre of Amsterdam oligarchy from the begin of the 17th century until the early 1650s. Since 1815 the family belonging to the new Dutch nobility with the honorific of jonkheer or jonkvrouw.