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