Baron Empain

{{Short description|Belgian noble title}}

File:Baron Empain Arms.jpg

Baron Empain is a title of nobility of the Kingdom of Belgium. The title was created in 1907 by Leopold II of Belgium for Édouard Empain, a wealthy Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist. The title is hereditary and descends to the senior male by agnatic primogeniture.[https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8640740/file/8643749.pdf Beyond Belgium : The business empire of Edouard Empain in the First Global Economy (1880-1914)]{{rp|197}}