1631 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1631 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
- Membership of the Walloon Province (Provincia Gallo-Belgica) of the Society of Jesus peaks at 856.[1]
- 5 February â Export of saltpetre and gunpowder prohibited by royal order.[2]
- 8 February â Council of Flanders reissues a 1605 clarification of their 1601 proclamation on the production and sale of brandywine, prohibiting innkeepers and tavernkeepers from distilling brandywine, and brandywine distillers from selling retail except to medical professionals.[3]
- 22 March â Detailed proclamation on hunting in the County of Flanders issued in Brussels.[4]
- 1 to 4 June â Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, launches an abortive invasion of the County of Flanders from IJzendijke, probing the defences of Bruges.
- 19 July â Marie de' Medici flees from Compiègne to the Low Countries.[5]:â63â
- 29 July â Marie de' Medici takes up residence in Mons.[5]:â84â
- 5 August â Decree on foreign and billon coinage issued.[6]
- 11 August â Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia arrives in Mons to welcome Marie de' Medici.[5]:â88â
- 26 November â Antwerp city council issues by-laws against price-gouging in the transportation of firewood.
Publications
- Antonio Ãlvares Suares, Elogio funebre en cancion real a la vida i hazañas muerte i obsequias del señor Ambrosio Spinola, marques de los Balbases, cavallero de la orden del tuson de oro (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
- Philippe Chifflet, Histoire du prieuré nostre Dame de Bellefontaine au comté de Bourgongne (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
- Libertus Fromondus, Labyrinthus sive de compositione continui liber unus: philosophis, mathematicis, theologis utilis ac iucundus (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
- Emmanuel Rodriguez de Gratia, Rodericus fatalis tragoedia (Leuven, Cornelis Coenesteyn)
- Jean Puget de la Serre, Le Bréviaire des courtisans (Brussels, François Vivien)[7]
- Erycius Puteanus, Diva virgo Bellifontana in Sequanis (Antwerp, Plantin Press)[8]
- Urban VIII, Onsen alderheyligsten vaders ende heeren Urbani des VIII. paus, suppressie van de vermeynde vergaderinghe der Jesuiterssen (Brussels, Jan Mommaert the Younger)
- Geeraerd vanden Brande, Brandt in Liefde: Poemata ofte Gedichten (Antwerp, Geeraerdt van Wolsschaten the Younger)
- Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Les trophées d'Ambroise de Spinola, celebrez par 6 orateurs, Flamen, Frison, Imperial, Brabanceau, Espagnol, et Italien (Leuven, Jacobus Zegers)
- Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Tragoediae decem (Leuven, Joannes Oliverius and Cornelius Coenesteyn)[9]
- Johannes Wiggers, In tertiam partem D. Thomae Aquinatis commentaria (Leuven, Joannes Oliverius and Cornelis Coenesteyn)
Births
- Date uncertain â Nikolaus van Hoy, artist (died 1679)
- 8 March â Jacques Neutre, abbot (died 1679)
- 8 April (baptism) â Cornelis de Heem, painter (died 1695)
- 22 June â Francis Rombouts, mayor of New York City (died 1691)
- 28 November (baptism) â Abraham Brueghel, painter (died c. 1690)
- 10 December â Jean Baptiste de Champaigne, painter (died 1681)
Deaths
- Date uncertain
- Charles, Duke of Aumale (born 1555), military commander
- Tobias Verhaecht (born 1561), painter
- 11 January â Franciscus Haraeus (born 1555?), clergyman and cartographer
- August â Countess Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau (born 1580), noblewoman
- 11 October â Marten Ryckaert (born 1587), painter
- 18 October â Servais de Lairuelz (born 1560), monastic reformer