1655 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1655 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).
Incumbents
Habsburg Netherlands
- Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.
- Governor General – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
- Prince-Bishop – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria
Events
- 19 June to 13 July – Siege of Landrecies[1]: 399
- September – Diplomatic relations with the Commonwealth of England broken off[1]: 398
- 31 October – Jurisdiction over Herstal transferred from Philip IV to the Prince-Bishopric of Liège[2]
Art and architecture
- Jacob Jordaens, St Charles Borromeo interceding for victims of plague, in St. Charles Borromeo Church, Antwerp
Publications
- (Augustinian College, Ghent), De heylighe vyf wonden ons saligh-makers Iesv Christi (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet) — a school play performed in September 1655.[3]
- Aegidius Bucherius, Belgium Romanum ecclesiasticum et civile (Liège, Henri and Jean-Matthieu Hoven)[4]
- Jean-Jacques Chifflet, Anastasis Childerici I. Francorum Regis, Sive Thesaurus Sepulchralis Tornaci Nerviorum effossus, et Commentario illustratus (Antwerp, Plantin Press)[5]
- Adriaan Poirters, Het pelgrimken van Kevelaer, Inhoudende de litanien, hymni, liedekens, herders-dichtjens, en reysgebeden voor de processie van Kevelaer (Roermond)[6]
Births
- 25 April (baptism) – Pieter Rijsbraeck, artist (died 1729)
- Date uncertain
Deaths
- 29 March – Valerius Andreas (born 1588), scholar
- 30 March – Joannes Couchet (born 1615), harpsichord maker
- 29 April – Cornelis Schut (born 1597), painter
- 30 June – Jacobus Boonen (born 1573), clergyman
- 10 August – Lodewijk de Vadder (born 1605), artist
- 27 September – Nicolaas Rubens, Lord of Rameyen (born 1618)
- Date uncertain
- Hendrick Andriessen (born 1607), painter
- Jacques Fouquier (born c.1590/91), painter
References
- 1 2 Alain de Gueldre (ed.), Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
- ↑ Paul Delforge. "Transfert de Herstal". Connaître la Wallonie.
- ↑ "De heylighe vyf wonden". STCV. 1655.
- ↑ Belgium Romanum at Internet Archive
- ↑ Anastasis on Google Books
- ↑ Het pelgrimken van Kevelaer at Digital Library for Dutch Literature