1638 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1638 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).
Incumbents[edit]
Habsburg Netherlands[edit]
- Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.
- Governor General – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria
Prince-Bishopric of Liège[edit]
- Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events[edit]
- 23 January – Exports of grain prohibited.[1]
- 24 May – French forces invest St Omer
- 20 June – Battle of Kallo
- 16 July – Siege of Saint-Omer lifted
- 26 August – Dutch siege of Geldern lifted
- 16 September – Jesuit College in Brussels stages Conversio S. Augustini[2]
Publications[edit]
- Relation de tout ce qui s'est passé au siège et prise de Breme (Antwerp, Plantin Press)[3]
- Honorius Vanden Born (pen name of Erycius Puteanus), Sedigh leven, daghelycks broodt (Leuven, Everaert De Witte)[4]
- Jean-Jacques Courvoisier, L'Austriche saincte, ou l'Idée du vrai prélat, tirée de la vie parfaite et innocente de S. Maximilian, apôtre et patron de l'Autriche (Brussels, G. Schoevaerts)[5]
Works of art[edit]
- Peter Paul Rubens, Het Pelsken, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
- Anthony van Dyck, Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria, now in the Royal Collection (2 parts) and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (1 part)
Births[edit]
- Date uncertain
- Arnold de Jode, engraver
- David Teniers III, painter
- 6 February – Philips Erard van der Noot, bishop (died 1730)
- 3 June – Jean-Guillaume Carlier, painter (died 1675)
Deaths[edit]
- Date uncertain
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger (born 1564), painter
- Andreas de Nole (born 1598), sculptor
- Jan Roos (born 1591), painter
- 10 March – Cornelis van der Geest (born 1575), merchant
- 30 April – Guillaume de Steenhuys (born 1558), magistrate
- 6 May – Cornelius Jansen (born 1585), theologian
- 22 May – Hendrik van den Bergh (born 1573), nobleman
- 5 August – Peter Minuit (born 1580/85), governor of New Netherland
- 1 October – Jan Snellinck (born c. 1548), painter
References[edit]
- ^ Placcaertboeck van Vlaanderen, Volume 3, part 2 (Ghent, 1685), pp. 932-933. On Google Books
- ^ Goran Proot, "Augustine on Stage in the Southern Low Countries", in Augustine beyond the Book, edited by Karla Pollmann and Meredith J. Gill (Leiden and Boston, 2012), p. 114.
- ^ Relation on Google Books.
- ^ Erycius Puteanus (1999). Hugo Dehennin (ed.). "Sedigh leven, daghelycks broodt (1639)". Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Ghent: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde. p. 8.
- ^ On Google Books