Charles de Brimeu
Charles de Brimeu or Karel van Brimeu (* around 1523 ; † January 7, 1572 in Zwolle ) was Count von Megen from 1547 and the last male member of the Brimeu family . Its full title in Latin was: CAROLUS DE BRIMEU marescalcus brabantiae gubernator lucenburgiae hanoniae gelriae frisiae groningae transisalaniae etc. aurei velleris eques aos xxvi comes de megen.
Life
He was the eldest son of Eustatius (Eustaes) de Brimeu, Count of Megen (* around 1474; † 1547/48) and Barbara van Hille. From his father he inherited the county and the lords of Humbercourt , Querrieu and Houdain , from his mother Éperlecques (Sperleke).
In service of the Spanish monarchy, he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1555 . He was then governor of Luxembourg (1556–1558) and Vermandois , captain general of Hainaut (1558–1560), Geldern and Zutphen (1560–1572), as well as Friesland , Groningen , Drenthe , Overijssel and Lingen (1568–1572).
He opposed the centralistic policy of King Philip II as well as William of Orange and Lamoral von Egmond , but only until the iconoclasm of 1566 . During the subsequent Geusen uprising , he was loyal to the Spanish crown. In 1568 he successfully defended Groningen against Ludwig von Nassau-Dillenburg , after he had defeated the Count of Arenberg in the Battle of Heiligerlee and now wanted to take Groningen as a starting point for further actions.
Charles de Brimeu died unmarried and without descendants, but was the uncle of Maria de Brimeu (* 1550, † April 18, 1605 in Liège ), who was successively the wife of Lancelot de Berlaymont and (from 1580) Charles III. de Croÿ , on whom she exercised a decisive influence until he separated from her in 1584 and converted to the Catholic faith.
literature
- Werner Paravicini : Guy de Brimeu. The Burgundian state and its aristocratic ruling class under Charles the Bold (= Paris Historical Studies. Vol. 12). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7928-0344-5 .
- Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European family tables . Family tables on the history of the European states. New series, volume 7: Families of the old Lotharingia. 2. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1979, plate 65.
- Bartelds: Charles de Brimeu . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 8. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 217–219 (Dutch, knaw.nl - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1930, reprint unchanged).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karel van Brimeu on vanderkrogt.net
- ↑ a b c Bartelds: Charles de Brimeu . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 8. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 217–219 (Dutch, knaw.nl - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1930, reprint unchanged).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brimeu, Charles de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count von Megen, Spanish military |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1523 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1572 |
| Place of death | Zwolle |