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Jan Baptist Christyn The Younger
Jan Baptist Christyn the Younger (c.1635–1707), knight, was a lawyer and author in the Spanish Netherlands. Life Christyn was born in Brussels around 1635. As a Licentiate of Laws he practised law in the city of Brussels for a number of years, until in 1697 appointed a judge of the Council of Brabant alongside his uncle Libert-François Christyn. He died in Brussels in 1707.J.-J. Thonissen, "Christyn (Jean-Baptiste)", ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 4(Brussels, 1873), 109-110. He wrote a number of works on legal matters. ''Les délices des Pays-Bas: ou Description géographique et historique des XVII. provinces belgiques'', a historical chorography of the Low Countries first published in 1697, has been attributed to him, but also to another of his uncles, Chancellor of Brabant, Chancellor Jan Baptist Christyn (I). Works *''Placcaeten, ordonnantien, etc. van Brabant'', vol. 2 (Brussels, 1676) – completing the work of Antonio Anselmo *''Brabandts recht, dat is generale c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Netherlands
Spanish Netherlands (Spanish: Países Bajos Españoles; Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden; French: Pays-Bas espagnols; German: Spanische Niederlande.) (historically in Spanish: ''Flandes'', the name "Flanders" was used as a ''pars pro toto'') was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714. They were a collection of States of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries held in personal union by the Spanish Crown (also called Habsburg Spain). This region comprised most of the modern states of Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as parts of northern France, the southern Netherlands, and western Germany with the capital being Brussels. The Army of Flanders was given the task of defending the territory. The Imperial fiefs of the former Burgundian Netherlands had been inherited by the Austrian House of Habsburg from the extinct House of Valois-Burgundy upon the death of Mary of Burgundy in 1482. The Seventeen Provinces formed the core of the Habsburg N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
