1631 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1631 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).

Incumbents

Habsburg Netherlands

Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.

Governor General – Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria

Events

• Membership of the Walloon Province (Provincia Gallo-Belgica) of the Society of Jesus peaks at 856.^[1]
• 5 February – Export of saltpetre and gunpowder prohibited by royal order.^[2]
• 8 February – Council of Flanders reissues a 1605 clarification of their 1601 proclamation on the production and sale of brandywine, prohibiting innkeepers and tavernkeepers from distilling brandywine, and brandywine distillers from selling retail except to medical professionals.^[3]
• 22 March – Detailed proclamation on hunting in the County of Flanders issued in Brussels.^[4]
• 1 to 4 June – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, launches an abortive invasion of the County of Flanders from IJzendijke, probing the defences of Bruges.
• 19 July – Marie de' Medici flees from Compiègne to the Low Countries.^[5]: 63
• 29 July – Marie de' Medici takes up residence in Mons.^[5]: 84
• 5 August – Decree on foreign and billon coinage issued.^[6]
• 11 August – Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia arrives in Mons to welcome Marie de' Medici.^[5]: 88
• 26 November – Antwerp city council issues by-laws against price-gouging in the transportation of firewood.

Publications

• Antonio Álvares Suares, Elogio funebre en cancion real a la vida i hazañas muerte i obsequias del señor Ambrosio Spinola, marques de los Balbases, cavallero de la orden del tuson de oro (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
• Philippe Chifflet, Histoire du prieuré nostre Dame de Bellefontaine au comté de Bourgongne (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
• Libertus Fromondus, Labyrinthus sive de compositione continui liber unus: philosophis, mathematicis, theologis utilis ac iucundus (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
• Emmanuel Rodriguez de Gratia, Rodericus fatalis tragoedia (Leuven, Cornelis Coenesteyn)
• Jean Puget de la Serre, Le Bréviaire des courtisans (Brussels, François Vivien)^[7]
• Erycius Puteanus, Diva virgo Bellifontana in Sequanis (Antwerp, Plantin Press)^[8]
• Urban VIII, Onsen alderheyligsten vaders ende heeren Urbani des VIII. paus, suppressie van de vermeynde vergaderinghe der Jesuiterssen (Brussels, Jan Mommaert the Younger)
• Geeraerd vanden Brande, Brandt in Liefde: Poemata ofte Gedichten (Antwerp, Geeraerdt van Wolsschaten the Younger)
• Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Les trophées d'Ambroise de Spinola, celebrez par 6 orateurs, Flamen, Frison, Imperial, Brabanceau, Espagnol, et Italien (Leuven, Jacobus Zegers)
• Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Tragoediae decem (Leuven, Joannes Oliverius and Cornelius Coenesteyn)^[9]
• Johannes Wiggers, In tertiam partem D. Thomae Aquinatis commentaria (Leuven, Joannes Oliverius and Cornelis Coenesteyn)

Births

• Date uncertain – Nikolaus van Hoy, artist (died 1679)
• 8 March – Jacques Neutre, abbot (died 1679)
• 8 April (baptism) – Cornelis de Heem, painter (died 1695)
• 22 June – Francis Rombouts, mayor of New York City (died 1691)
• 28 November (baptism) – Abraham Brueghel, painter (died c. 1690)
• 10 December – Jean Baptiste de Champaigne, painter (died 1681)

Deaths

• Date uncertain
  • Charles, Duke of Aumale (born 1555), military commander
  • Tobias Verhaecht (born 1561), painter
• 11 January – Franciscus Haraeus (born 1555?), clergyman and cartographer
• August – Countess Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau (born 1580), noblewoman
• 11 October – Marten Ryckaert (born 1587), painter
• 18 October – Servais de Lairuelz (born 1560), monastic reformer

References

1. Paul Begheyn, Jesuits in the Low Countries and their Publications
2. Ordonnance du roy nostre sire. Par laquelle sa Majesté deffend le transport des salpetres & pouldres (Hubert Anthoon, 1631)
3. Ordonnantie van myne Heeren vanden Raede in Vlaenderen, op het stoocken vanden ghebrande-wyn (Ghent, Anna vanden Steene, 1631) Available on Google Books
4. Placcaert op t'stuck van de jachte in het landt ende graefschap van Vlaenderen (Brussels, Widow of Hubert Anthoon, 1631) Available on Google Books
5. Paul Henrard, Marie de Médicis dans les Pays-Bas: 1631-1638 (Paris, 1876). Available on Google Books
6. Placcart du roy nostre sire. Sur le faict des Monnoyes (Widow of Hubert Anthoon, 1631)
7. Le Bréviaire des courtisans on Google Books.
8. Diva virgo Bellifontana available on Google Books.
9. Tragoediae decem available on Google Books.