Balthazar Ayala

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Balthazar Ayala

Balthazar Ayala (1548–1584) was a military judge in the Habsburg Netherlands during the opening decades of the Eighty Years' War who wrote an influential treatise on the law of war.[1]

Life[]

Ayala was born in Antwerp in 1548, the son of a Spanish cloth merchant, Gregorio Ayala, and his wife Agnes Rainalmia, a native of Cambrai.[2] He studied at Leuven University, graduating licentiate of laws. On 27 May 1580 the Prince of Parma appointed him auditor general of the Army of Flanders.[2]

On 20 January 1583, he was appointed master of requests in the Great Council of Mechelen, then sitting in Namur as a result of the unfolding Dutch Revolt. In 1584 he was royal commissioner for the renewal of the magistracy in Breda, Herentals and Lier. He died in Aalst on 1 September 1584, probably while acting in the same capacity there.[2]

Of his five brothers, Grégoire was also military auditor and later a member of the Council of Brabant, and Philippe was entrusted with an embassy to Henri IV of France.[2]

Works[]

  • De jure et officiis bellicis et disciplina militari (Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582). Second edition, Antwerp, 1597.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, edited by Gordon Campbell (Oxford University Press, 2003), s.v. "Ayala, Balthazar".
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d , "Ayala (Balthazar)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 571-573.
  3. ^ Balthazar de Ayala, De iure et officijs bellicis, et disciplina militari (Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1597). On Google Books.
  4. ^ Balthazar Ayala, Three Books on the Law of War and on the Duties Connected with War and on Military Discipline, translated by , (Washington DC, 1912). On Google Books
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