Maximilien de Longueval, 1st Count of Bucquoy
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Maximilien de Longueval 1st Count of Bucquoy | |
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| Born | 16 April 1537 |
| Died | 29 November 1581 (aged 44) |
| Allegiance |  Spain Holy Roman Empire |
| Battles / wars | |
| Children | Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy |
Maximilien de Longueval, 1st Count of Bucquoy (16 April 1537 – 29 November 1581), 5th Baron of Vaulx, was a Royal Spanish general.
Longueval was born on 16 April 1537 at Arras, County of Artois, Habsburg Netherlands. He was the son of Jean Adrien de Longueval, Baron of Vaulx (1510–1551), and Jeanne de Rosimbos de Villers (1505–1570). His father was Chief Steward of the Emperor Charles V and a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.[1]
His paternal grandfather was Adrien de Longueval, Lord of Vaulx, was Chamberlain to Archduke Philip the Handsome, King of Castile, León and Granada. The family initially named itself after its ancestral seat, Longueval near Amiens. In 1444, the barony of Vaulx was acquired, and in 1567, the Lordship of Bucquoy, both located in the County of Artois near Bapaume. His maternal grandparents were Pierre, Lord of Rosimbos, and Marie de Habarcq (a daughter of Chevalier Philippe de Habarcq).[1]
Career
Longueval was a Royal Spanish General during the Eighty Years' War. In 1580, he was made Count of Buquoy by Charles V's son (by Isabella of Portugal), Philip II of Spain, and fell at the Siege of Tournai in 1581, when the Spanish Habsburg troops of Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma took the city from Netherlandish rebels. The States General of the northern provinces, united in the 1579 Union of Utrecht, passed an Act of Abjuration in 1581 declaring that they no longer recognized Philip as their king. The Southern Netherlands (what is now Belgium and Luxembourg) remained under Spanish rule.[2]