Alexandre I. de Bournonville

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Alexandre I. de Bournonville (born September 14, 1585 in Brussels , † March 22, 1656 Lyon ) was a Franco-Dutch nobleman, military and diplomat in the Habsburg service. He was Comte de Henin (in the Habsburg Artois ), Vicomte et Baron de Barlin, Baron de Houllefort (in the French Picardy ) etc., was raised to the (French) Duke of Bournonville and Pair de France , as well as in the ( Habsburg ) order taken up by the Golden Fleece .

Life

Alexandre de Bournonville was the only child of Oudart de Bournonville (1533–1585), Comte de Henin etc. from the House of Bournonville , and Marie-Christine von Egmond from the House of Egmond , thus a grandson of Count Egmond, who was executed in 1565 . His father died three months after his birth. Alexandre grew up at the court of the governor of the Spanish Netherlands in Brussels.

In 1600, King Henry IV of France elevated the barony of Houllefort to a duchy. During this period Alexandre de Bournonville began a journey of several years to Italy and Austria, which took him to Florence in 1602 and to Vienna in 1606 . After his return, Archduke Albrecht VII of Habsburg , the regent of the Spanish Netherlands, appointed him Gentilhomme de la chambre .

Alexandre de Bournonville began his service in the Habsburg military in 1607. He commanded a company of 300 Walloons , from which he moved to one of the five old companies set up by Emperor Charles V. On October 22nd, 1608 he was appointed the French Duc de Bournonville by patent letter from King Henry IV . In 1612 he became the Archduke's envoy to the French court, but ceremonial difficulties prevented him from obtaining accreditation.

In 1614 he commanded a company of 100 lances ; in 1619, at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, a regiment of 3,000 Walloons along with another regiment and 1,000 horsemen led to Bohemia . He came to support the Comte de Buquoy near Budweis and then fought in the siege of Graz . In the same year he lost an eye in the Pisca from a blow with a musket .

The following year he came to Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba against Mansfeld to help, then fought, among other things, in the Battle of Fleurus (August 22, 1622), the siege of Breda (1624-1625) , at 's-Hertogenbosch , which 1629 by the Dutch under Friedrich Heinrich of Orange was conquered.

In 1624 Alexandre de Bournonville was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece (No. 354). In 1627 he was envoy of the Spanish Netherlands in Vienna, in 1630 with Ludwig XIII. in France. In 1631 he was appointed governor of Lille and Walloon Flanders. He also became a colonel in the oldest Walloon regiment. His career ended with the death of the governor Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain in 1633. He had to withdraw to France and settled in Lyon, the Flemish Chamber of Finance moved his goods into the Spanish Netherlands. In 1649 Philip IV of Spain gave it back to his son Alexandre II de Bournonville . Alexandre I de Bournonville was promoted to Pair de France in 1652 and died on March 22, 1656 in Lyon.

Marriage and offspring

He married on September 5, 1611 in Brussels Anne de Melun (born August 1, 1597 in Lisieux ), daughter of Pierre de Melun, Prince d'Épinoy, Marquis de Richebourg ( House of Melun ), and Hyppolite de Montmorency-Bours ( House of Montmorency ). Your children are:

  1. Ferdinand de Bournonville, * 1612, † 1622 in Brussels after falling from a balcony; He was in Henin buried
  2. Alexandre-Hyppolite-Balthazar de Bournonville ; * 1616, † 1690, Duc et Prince de Bournonville; ∞ 1656 Johanna von Arenberg, * 1628, † 1663, daughter of Philipp Karl von Arenberg , 2nd Prince of Arenberg ( Ligne House )
  3. Ambroise-François de Bournonville , * around 1620, † 1693, Duc de Bournonville, Pair de France; ∞ 1655 Lucrèce de La Vieuville, daughter of Charles I. de La Vieuville , and Marie Bouhier de Beaumarchais
  4. Jacques de Bournonville, * 1627, † 1644, Viscount de Barlin, buried in Saint-Eustache in Paris
  5. Wolfgang-Guillaume de Bournonville, † 1682, Vicomte et Baron de Barlin etc .; ∞ Marie Bonne Mouton de Harchies, † 1688, daughter of Charles Mouton and Anne du Chasteler
  6. Philippe-Dominique-Victor de Bournonville, monk with the Discalced Carmelites
  7. Jean-François-Benjamin de Bournonville, * 1637, † 1718, Marquis de Bournonville et de Richebourg; ∞ (1) Doña Maria de Perapertusa-Vila-de-Manii y Cruïlles, † 1660, heiress of the Visconde de Joch; ∞ (2) Marie-Ferdinand de Noircarmes de Sainte-Aldegonde, † 1698, daughter of François Lamoral and Agnes Davre
  8. Isabelle-Marie de Bournonville
  9. Chrétienne de Bournonville, lady of the palace of the Infanta Isabella
  10. Anne-Eugénie de Bournonville, Canon in Mons , then Carmelite in Antwerp
  11. Ernestine de Bournonville, canon in Maubeuge , then in the Couvent des Dames de Berlaymont in Brussels

His wife survived him by twelve years and died on October 18, 1668 in Antwerp

literature

  • Père Anselme , Histoire généalogique , 3rd edition, Volume 5, 1730, p. 838

Web links

Commons : Alexandre I de Bournonville  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Étienne Pattou, Famille et Seigneurs de Bournonville ( online , accessed April 11, 2020)