Viglius Zuichemus

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Viglius Zuichemus, painting by Frans Pourbus the Elder

Viglius Zuichemus ( Latinized by Wigle van Aytta van Zwichem ) (born October 19, 1507 in Swichum ; † May 5, 1577 in Brussels ) was a Dutch lawyer and ambassador to Charles V.

Life

He studied at the universities of Leuven , Dole and Bourges law and then visited several universities in Europe; while he got to know Erasmus from Rotterdam . He married Jacqueline Damant. He was teaching at the universities of Bourges and Padua when he accepted a position at the court of the bishopric of Münster . In 1535 he became assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer .

He did not accept the position as tutor of Philip II of Spain , but taught for five years with Wiguleu's dog at the University of Ingolstadt .

On October 12, 1540 he was appointed by Charles V to the Privy Council in Brussels and on May 21, 1543 he was appointed to the great council of Mechelen , which he chaired a few years later. On October 6, 1563 he was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Golden Fleece .

In 1546, during the Schmalkaldic War , he was the ambassador of Charles V.

In 1571 he had Frans Pourbus the Elder make an altar for the Bavo Church in Ghent with the depiction of Jesus among the scribes. His portrait of Pourbus is in the Louvre .

Blood poster

Viglius was widely considered to be the author of the Blood Poster , an edict of 1550 that punished any heresy with death. The blood poster obliged everyone to report heretics. Repentant male heretics were also beheaded, women buried alive, the steadfast given to death by fire. He denied authorship.

After the abdication of Charles V, he stayed with his son Philip II. Legal advisor at court, for which he was rewarded, among other things, with benefices from the monastery of St. Bavo's Cathedral .

In 1559 Margarethe von Parma became governor of the Netherlands and Viglius chairman of her Privy Council, later President of the Council of State and, with Charles de Berlaymont, a member of a committee that called itself Consulta . In 1565 Margarete accepted his resignation. When Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba , put down the rebellion of the Geusen , he was initially supported by Viglius. In 1576 he was arrested by the Blood Council with other members of the State Council . His health was in poor health. He was buried in the Saint Bavo Abbey .

Publications

  • He wrote a diary of the Schmalkaldic Danube War, edited by A. von Drullel. Munich 1877.
  • Cornmentarii in decem Instilutionum ilulos , lectures. Lyon 1564.
  • His Vita et opera historica in the Analecta Belgica by CP Höynck van Papend right, The Hague, 1743.
  • LP Gachard, Correspondance de Philippe II sur les affaires des Pays-Bas. Brussels, 184879
  • Correspondance de Marguerite d'Autriche, Duchess of Parma, avec Philippe II, Brussels, 1867–1881.
  • E. Poullet: Correspondance Cardinal de de Granvelle . Brussels, 1877–1881.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas B. Deutscher, Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation , p. 394
  2. ↑ Fortuné Koller, Au service de la Toison d'or (les officiers), Dison 1971, p. 30.
  3. ^ Viglius . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 28 : Vetch - Zymotic Diseases . London 1911, p. 60 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  4. ↑ Dirk Maczkiewitz: The Dutch revolt against Spain (1568-1609) . 2007, 366 pp.
  5. ↑ Netherlands. DHM
personal data
SURNAME Zuichemus, Viglius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meanwhile, Wigle Aytta van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch lawyer and ambassador to Charles V.
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1507
PLACE OF BIRTH Swichum
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1577
Place of death Brussels