List of governors of Luxembourg
In 1354 King Charles IV made the county of Luxembourg a duchy . Wenzel I became the first duke . With the death of Emperor Sigismund in 1437, the main line of the House of Luxembourg died out, ending supremacy in the empire. In 1441 the last duchess from the House of Luxembourg sold the land to the House of France, Burgundy . But it remained a fiefdom of the empire under constitutional law. After the death of the last Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, in 1477, Luxembourg passed the entire Burgundian inheritance to Charles' daughter Maria of Burgundy and her husband, who later became Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg.
Governors of Luxembourg
| from | to | Surname | comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| French governors | |||
| September 1, 1542 | September 10, 1542 | Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise (1496–1550) | |
| September 12, 1543 | 1544 | François d'Anglure († 1544) | |
| 1544 | August 6, 1544 | François I de Clèves, duc de Nevers (1516–1562) | |
| Spanish governors and captains general | |||
| July 2, 1545 | May 23, 1604 | Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld (1517–1604) | (French prisoner from June 22, 1552 to May 18, 1557) |
| 1552 | 1553 | Count d'Egmont | Representative for Mansfeld |
| 1553 | 1555 | Martin van Rossem (1490–1555) | Representative for Mansfeld |
| 1555 | 1556 | Charles de Brimeu , Count of Megen | Representative for Mansfeld |
| September 1576 | February 1577 | Johann von Naves, sieur de Sivry | Provisional for Mansfeld |
| June 1604 | 1627 | Florent, comte de Berlaimont († 1627) | |
| April 1627 | 1636 | Christoph Graf von Ostfriesland (1569–1636) | |
| 1636 | 1642 | Philipp Dietrich von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (1596–1653) | Andrea Cantelmo (August 1637 to November 1637) |
| January 18, 1642 | 1648 | Johann von Beck (1588–1648) | the first Luxembourger |
| January 15, 1646 | November 1646 | Alonso, marchese Strozzi | (Provisional for Beck) |
| 1648 | June 19, 1650 | Philippe-François de Croÿ, duc d'Havré (1610–1650) | |
| 1650 | Gilles, marquis de Mollinguin | (Provisionally) | |
| August 1650 | 1652 | Alonso, marchese Strozzi | (Provisionally) |
| 1652 | 1654 | Francesco Sanchez de Pardo | (Provisionally) |
| January 24, 1654 | January 12, 1675 | Philippe de Ligne-Arenberg, prince de Chimay et de Croy d'Arenberg (1619–1675) | (from June 9, 1645 Duke) |
| 1675 | Jean-Charles-Chrétien de Sandas et Louvegnies, Baron de Grandcourt | (Provisionally) | |
| 1676 | Jean Charles de Watteville Marquis de Conflans | (Provisionally) | |
| 1675 | 1680 | Johann-Franz Desideratus of Nassau-Siegen (1627–1699) | |
| 1680 | 1684 | Ernest-Alexandre Dominique de Ligne-Arenberg Croÿ , prince de Chimay et de Croÿ d'Arenberg (1643–1686) | |
| French governors | |||
| June 12, 1684 | July 1686 | Henri de Lambert, marquis de Lambert et de Saint Bris, Baron de Citry (1631–1686) | Lieutenant General |
| August 10, 1686 | July 1687 | Louis-François de Boufflers (1644-1711) | |
| July 25, 1687 | 1690 | Nicolas de Catinat (1637-1712) | (from March 1690, Lieutenant General) |
| 1690 | 1697? | Henri d'Harcourt (1654-1718) | |
| 1697 | Louis-François du Parc, Marquis de Locmaria (1647–1709) | ||
| Spanish governors and captains general | |||
| November 15, 1697 | 1713 | Count Jean-Frédéric d'Autel (1645–1716) | the second Luxembourger |
| Hessian governors | |||
| 1713 | 1714 | Reinhardt Vincent von Hompesch (1660–1733) | |
| 1714 | 1715? | Johann Rabo van Keppel (1671? - 1733) | |
| Austrian governors | |||
| January 5, 1715 | December 4, 1716 | Bertram Anton Freiherr von Wachtendonk | |
| December 4, 1716 | April 17, 1719 | Johann Franz von Bronkhorst zu Gronsveld and Eberstein († 1719) | |
| 1719 | July 1720 | Maximilien de Pasqualini († 1720) | |
| 1720 | 1722 | Adolf Christian Freiherr von Galen († 1722) | |
| March 1722 | April 27, 1727 | Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Unruhe († 1727) | |
| May 29, 1727 | October 1729 | Count Franz Anton Paul of Wallis (1678–1737) | |
| October 1729 | May 7, 1730 | Philippe Henri de Magawly, Baron de Cabry (1675–1756) | 1st time provisional |
| May 7, 1730 | May 22, 1731 | Count Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684–1774) | 1 time |
| May 22, 1731 | February 22, 1732 | Philippe Henri de Magawly, Baron de Cabry | 2nd time, provisional |
| February 22, 1732 | May 5, 1733 | Adam Sigismund Freiherr von Thüngen (1687–1745) | 1st time provisional Fort Thüngen |
| May 5, 1733 | June 22, 1734 | Wilhelm Reinhard Count Neipperg | 2 times |
| June 22, 1734 | July 30, 1736 | Sigismund Freiherr von Thüngen | 2nd time (provisional) |
| July 30, 1736 | January 1737 | Wilhelm Reinhard Count Neipperg | 3 times |
| January 1737 | April 1737 | Georges Adolphe d'Olizy († 1739) | 1st time (provisional) Fort Olizy |
| April 1737 | May 1737 | Antoine de Peissant, comte de Rumigny († 1748) | (Provisionally) |
| May 1737 | January 1738 | Wilhelm Reinhard Count Neipperg | 4 times |
| January 1738 | May 16, 1739 | Georges Adolphe d'Olizy | 2nd time (provisional) |
| 1739 | September 17, 1742 | Carl Urban Count of Chanclos (1686–1761) | Provisionally |
| September 17, 1742 | 1743 | Wooden apple | Provisionally |
| 1743 | March 1744 | Melligny | Provisionally |
| March 1744 | 1753 | Wilhelm Reinhard Count Neipperg | 5 times |
| 1753 | October 20, 1755 | Eberhard Freiherr von Gemmingen (1688–1767) | 1st time (provisional) |
| October 20, 1755 | 1766 | Ernst Dietrich Marshal of Burgholzhausen (1692–1771) | |
| 1756 | 1763 | Eberhard Freiherr von Gemmingen | 2nd time, provisionally for Marshal von Biberstein |
| 1766 | May 1773 | Prince Maximilian Friedrich Ernst von Salm-Salm (1732–1773) | |
| January 2, 1767 | 1785 | Christian Jakob Freiherr von Vogelsang | Provisional for Salm-Salm until May 1773 |
| September 1, 1785 | June 7, 1795 | Blasius Columban von Bender (1713–1798) | (in opposition December 15, 1792 to April 28, 1793) |
| Dutch governors | |||
| September 2, 1815 | December 31, 1830 | Jean Georges Othon Victorin M. Zacharie Willmar (1763–1831) | provisional until May 29, 1817, his son Jean-Jacques Willmar later becomes Prime Minister |
| Dutch Governors General | |||
| January 1, 1831 | March 5, 1831 | Jean Leclerc (1765-1836) | provisionally |
| March 5, 1831 | May 27, 1831 | Karl Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862) | |
| Belgian governors (in Arlon) | |||
| October 5, 1830 | October 16, 1830 | François d'Hoffschmit (1797-1854) | (German: Franz Heinrich von Hoffschmidt) (commissioner-general) |
| October 16, 1830 | 1832 | Jean Baptiste Thorn (1783–1841) | |
| April 19, 1832 | September 21, 1834 | Jean N. Rossignon | |
| September 21, 1834 | December 10, 1834 | Feuillien-Charles-Marie-Joseph (1800-1887) | |
| December 10, 1834 | January 19, 1839 | Victorin Jean François, baron de Steenhault (1791–1841) | |
| Chairman of the Administrative Commission (in Luxembourg) | |||
| May 27, 1831 | June 18, 1839 | Friedrich Wilhelm von Goedecke (1771–1857) | |
| Head of civil administration | |||
| June 16, 1839 | October 21, 1840 | Ludwig Hassenpflug (1794–1862) | |
| October 21, 1840 | January 1, 1842 | Jean Baptiste Gellé (1777-1847) | |
| governor | |||
| January 1, 1842 | August 1, 1848 | Gaspar-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine (1787–1871) | provisional until June 6, 1842 |
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