The Commission royale d'Histoire (in French) or Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis (in Dutch) is the Belgian Royal Historical Commission. It was founded by royal decree on 22 July 1834.
The Commission initially published their proceedings under the title Compte-rendu des séances de la commission royale d'histoire and since 1845 have published a journal, the Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire / Handelingen van de Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis.
It is the mission of the Commission 'to undertake research, to identify, edit or analyse written sources of interest to the history of Belgium, to publish critical studies relating to these sources and to make working tools available to historians'. To fulfill this mission, the Commission has had numerous collaborators. In 1836, for example, Victor Coremans was given the task, under the Commission's supervision, of making the German-language archives from the National Archives of Belgium available for research.
Presidents 1834-1871: Etienne de Gerlache 1871-1891: Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove 1891-1912: Stanislas Bormans 1913-1922: Napoléon de Pauw 1922-1932: Ursmer Berlière 1933-1947: Édouard Poncelet 1947-1972: Charles Terlinden 1972-1980: Félix Rousseau 1980-1984: Adriaan Verhulst 1984-1986: Maurice-Aurélien Arnould 1987-1989: Jan Buntinx 1990-1993: Jean-Jacques Hoebanx 1993-1996: Jan Craeybeckx 1996-1999: André Goosse 1999-2002: Raoul van Caenegem 2002-2004: Jean-Louis Kupper 2005-2007: Ludo Milis 2008-2010: Jean-Marie Duvosquel 2011-2013: Gustaaf Janssens 2014-2016: Claude Bruneel 2016-2018: Thérèse De Hemptinne 2019-2021: Claude de Moreau de Gerbehaye 2022-2024: Karel Velle
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