Maximilian de Berghes

Maximilian de Berghes (also Maximilien ; * around 1512; † August 27, 1570 in Bergen op Zoom ) was the first archbishop of Cambrai and regent of the bishopric of Cambrai in the rank of duke .

Berghes was the son of Dismas de Berghes († 1514) and Marie Laurin and came from the noble family de Glymes . Little is known about his early life. As chapter dean of St. Gummarus in Lier , he was elected Prince-Bishop of Cambrai on September 10, 1556 .

As part of a territorial reorganization of the Catholic Church in the course of the Reformation, Pope Paul IV issued the papal bull of May 12, 1559, the resolution to create another 14 new dioceses in the south of the Burgundian Netherlands . Cambrai became an archbishopric with suffragan dioceses as Arras , Tournai , Namur and Saint-Omer .

Berghes, now Prince Archbishop, convened a month-long provincial council on June 14, 1565, in which he announced the results of the Council of Trent . Also in 1565 he held the wedding of Alessandro Farnese to Maria of Portugal in Brussels . In 1566 he took part as a representative of the bishopric in the Reichstag in Augsburg and in October 1567 he organized a diocesan synod.

After a fatal stroke in Bergen op Zoom, he was transferred to Cambrai and said to be of merit he was buried in the old cathedral of Cambrai .

literature

• Necessary supplements to the great, complete UNIVERSAL LEXICON of all sciences and arts, which so far have been invented and improved through human understanding and wit , 3rd volume, Leipzig 1752, column 803.
• Alphonse Le Roy: Berghes (Maximilien de) . In: Biographie nationale de Belgique , Volume 2, Brussels 1868, col. 217 ff.

Web links

• Entry on Maximilian de Berghes on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Robert III de Croy	Bishop of Cambrai 1556–1562
	Archbishop of Cambrai 1562–1570	Ludwig von Berlaymont