1657 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1657 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 – John of Austria the Younger
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
- Prince-Bishop – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria
Events
- January
- 22-23 January — Brussels government issues clarifications on the decrees regarding the billeting of soldiers in winter quarters.[1]
- March
- Treaty of Paris: Anglo-French alliance targeting Dunkirk
- 21 March – Army of Flanders recovers Saint-Ghislain from the French.
- May
- 28-30 May – Prince of Condé foils a French attempt on Cambrai.[2]
- June
- 26 June – Andreas Creusen installed as Archbishop of Mechelen
- June to August – French besiege and capture Montmédy in the Duchy of Luxembourg
- September
- 21 September – Anglo-French forces take Fort-Mardyck
- 27 September – Brussels government institutes import restrictions on French wines.[3]
- November
- 29 November – Brussels government prohibits contribution payments to invading French forces.[4]
Foundations
Art and architecture
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- Katharina Pepijn, Portrait of Norbertus van Couwerven, Abbot of St Michael's Abbey, Antwerp
- David Teniers the Younger, The Entry of Don Juan of Austria into Brussels
Publications
- Guillaume Bolognino, Ni'uwe noodeliicke ortographie tot het schryven en 't drucken van onse Nederduytse tale (Antwerp, Jacob Mesens)[5]
- Sébastien Bouvier, Miroire de saincteté en la vie, mort et miracles de S. Feuillien (Liège, H. Tournay)[6]
- Guilielmus Hesius, Legatus fidelis ad oratores christianos (Antwerp, Cornelis Woons)[7]
- Jean-Henri Manigart, Diva Leodiensis consolatrix afflictorum (Liège, B. Bronckart)[8]
- Adriaan Poirters, Het duyfken in de steen-rotse (Antwerp, Cornelis Woons)[9]
- Joannes van der Elst, Notae Augustinianae sive Musices Figurae seu Notae Novae Concinendis Modulis Faciliores (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet)
- Arnout Van Geluwe, Corte Antwoorde, Op een onschriftmatige gereformeerde vraghe raeckende het H. Sacrament des Autaers (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet)
Births
- 17 January (baptism) – Pieter van Bloemen, painter (died 1720)
- 1 April – Gratien Simon, potter (died 1692)
- Date uncertain
- Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth (died 1680)
- Guillaume Héris, Herman de Sainte-Barbe in religion, Carmelite (died 1724)
- Gérard Melyn, Augustinian hermit (died 1734)
- Jan Baptist Tijssens the Younger, painter (died after 1723)
Deaths
- 9 February – Philippe Bouchy (born 1574), ascetic author
- 15 March – Pierre Fisch, abbot of Echternach
- 21 March – Georges Galopin (born c.1600), ecclesiastical author
- 2 April – Ferdinand III (born 1608), Holy Roman Emperor
- 28 May – Anthonius Triest (born 1576), bishop of Ghent
- 29 May – Antoine de Bourgogne (date of birth unknown), prelate
- 25 July – Willibrord Bosschaerts (born 1577), ecclesiastical author
- 4 August – Jean d'Allamont (born 1626), governor of Montmédy
- 27 August – Gottfried Huyn van Geleen (born c.1595), soldier
- 1 October – Albert Rubens (born 1614), scholar and administrator
- Date uncertain
- Gilles De Haes (born 1597), military commander
References
- ↑ René Vermeir, ed., Recueil des ordonnances des Pays-Bas: Règne de Philippe IV (1621-1665), vol. 4 (Brussels, 2023), 46-48.
- ↑ Henri d'Orléans d'Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé pendant les 16. et 17. siècles, vol. 6 (Paris, 1892), pp. 454-457.
- ↑ René Vermeir, ed., Recueil des ordonnances des Pays-Bas: Règne de Philippe IV (1621-1665), vol. 4 (Brussels, 2023), pp. 51-56.
- ↑ René Vermeir, ed., Recueil des ordonnances des Pays-Bas: Règne de Philippe IV (1621-1665), vol. 4 (Brussels, 2023), pp. 60-61
- ↑ Ni'uwe noodeliicke ortographie (1657) at Google Books
- ↑ "USTC 1525901".
- ↑ Legatus fidelis on Google Books
- ↑ "USTC 1525903".
- ↑ "Het duyfken in de steen-rotse". Digital Library for Dutch Literature.