1630 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1630 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).
Incumbents
Habsburg Netherlands
- Monarch â Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.
- Governor General â Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
- Prince-Bishop â Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events
- March â Peter Paul Rubens concludes a secret diplomatic mission to London.
- 20 April â Officials of the County of Flanders mandated to conserve and repair the coastal dunes, prohibiting hunting or the grazing of livestock in them.[1]
- 15 November â Conclusion of the Treaty of Madrid, ending the Anglo-Spanish War (1625â1630)
Publications
- Antonio Abbondanti, La Giuditta e le rime sacre, morali, e varie (Liège, Jean Ouwerx), dedicated to Pierluigi Carafa[2]
- Adrien de Fléron, Promulsis Elogii Tilliani (Liège, Jean Ouwercx)[3]
- Herman Hugo, De militia equestri antiqua et nova (Antwerp, Plantin Press)[4]
- Aubertus Miraeus, Notitia ecclesiarum Belgii (Antwerp, Joannes Cnobbaert), dedicated to Philip IV of Spain[5]
- Erycius Puteanus, De begginarum (Leuven, Cornelis Coensteyn)[6]
- Cornelius Thielmans, Seraphische historie van het leven der heyligen des oordens S. Francisci van Assysien (Leuven, Cornelis Coensteyn)[7]
Art and architecture
Births
- 22 February â Jean-Baptiste Christyn, councillor (died 1690)
- 26 November â Jean Herman Voeller, secretary of state (died 1710)
- Date uncertain
- Louis Philip of Egmont, nobleman (died 1682)
- Jacques-Théodore de Bryas, clergyman (died 1694)
Deaths
- 24 January â Antoine de Balinghem (born 1571), Jesuit writer
- 3 March â William Stanley (born 1548), military commander
- 12 May â Joanna de Hertoghe (born c. 1566), Cistercian abbess
- 25 May â Géry de Ghersem (born 1573/75), musician
- 25 July (burial) â Jan Tilens (born 1589), painter
- 17 August â Lodewijk Makeblijde (born 1565), Jesuit poet
- 27 August â Hendrick de Clerck (born c. 1560), painter
- 25 September â Ambrogio Spinola (born 1569), military commander
- 9 October â Engelbert Maes (born 1545), councillor
- 5 November â Charles Malapert (born 1581), Jesuit astronomer