Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands

Privy Councillors Engelbert Maes, Guillaume de Grysperre, Ferdinand de Boisschot, Jean Grivel and Guillaume de Steenhuys in the funeral cortege of Archduke Albert (1622)

The Privy Council or Secret Council (Dutch: Geheime Raad, French: Conseil Privé) was one of the three "collateral councils" (along with the Council of Finance and Council of State) that together formed the highest government institutions of the Habsburg Netherlands.^[1] Bseed in Brussels, it was particularly charged with legal and administrative questions.^[2]

History[]

The Council was founded on 1 October 1531 by Emperor Charles V.^[3] He prescribed a president, eight councillors, and a secretary.

Philip V of Spain abolished the council in 1702, but it was later restored by the archduchess-governess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen and finally abolished by the Brabant Revolution.

Personnel[]

Presidents[]

1531-1540: Jean Carondelet.
1531-1540:
1540-1548:
1549-1569: Viglius van Aytta
1569-1573:
1573-1575: Viglius van Aytta
1575-1583:
1587-1592: Willem van Pamele
1592-1595: Jan van der Burch
1597–1609: Jean Richardot
1614–1630: Engelbert Maes
1632–1653: Pieter Roose
1653–1671: Charles de Hovyne
1672–1684: Léon-Jean de Paepe
1684-1694:
1694-1702: Albert de Coxie, baron of Moorsele.
1725-1732: Christophe-Ernest, 1st Count of Baillet
1733-1739: Jean Alphonse, 1st Count de Coloma
1739-1758:

Councillors[]

Secretary[]

Louis Verreycken
Louis-François Verreycken, 1st Baron of Bonlez
Albert Rubens (1614-1657)

References[]

^ Paul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels (2015), p. 393.
^ Georges Martyn, "How 'Sovereign' were the Southern Netherlands under the Archdukes?", in The Twelve Years Truce (1609): Peace, Truce, War and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century, edited by Randall Lesaffer (Leiden and Boston, 2014), p. 201.
^ Geheime Raad (1531-1578), Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Accessed 3 April 2017.

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[1] Paul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels (2015), p. 393.

[2] Georges Martyn, "How 'Sovereign' were the Southern Netherlands under the Archdukes?", in The Twelve Years Truce (1609): Peace, Truce, War and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century, edited by Randall Lesaffer (Leiden and Boston, 2014), p. 201.

[3] Geheime Raad (1531-1578), Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Accessed 3 April 2017.

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