Adrien van der Burch (1501–1557) was an office-holder in the Habsburg Netherlands.

Life

Van der Burch was born in 1501 to a noble family in Flanders. From 1533 to 1540 he served as

pensionary A pensionary was a name given to the leading functionary and legal adviser of the principal town corporations in the Low Countries because they received a salary or pension. History The office originated in Flanders. Initially, the role was refe ...

to the rural Liberty of Bruges. General Guillaume, "Burch (Adrien de le ou Vander)", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''
vol. 3
(Brussels, 1872), 159-160. He was then in turn a member of the

Council of Flanders The Council of Flanders ( nl, Raad van Vlaanderen, french: Conseil de Flandres), primarily sitting in the Gravensteen in Ghent from 1407, was a court of law operating under the authority of the Count of Flanders and exercising jurisdiction thr ...

, and a member and

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to the Great Council of Mechelen. Alongside his work as a judge and councillor, Van der Burch was employed on diplomatic business in Flanders, Spain and England, including the negotiation of the marriage between Queen Mary and Charles's son,

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in 1554. On 26 August 1556, Charles V appointed Van der Burch president of the

Court of Utrecht The Court of Utrecht (Dutch: ''Hof van Utrecht'') was the highest law court in the Lordship of Utrecht and the Province of Utrecht from 1530 until 1811. It had civil and criminal jurisdiction in the City of Utrecht and was an appellate court for th ...

. On 9 November 1556 he was appointed Councillor of State and

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. He died in London on 2 July 1557. He was the father of Jan van der Burch, who became president of the

Brussels Privy Council The Privy Council or Secret Council ( nl, 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 Habs ...

, the historian

Lambert van der Burch Lambert van der Burch (1542–1617) was a clergyman and historian from the Habsburg Netherlands. Life Lambert was born in Mechelen on 8 August 1542, the son of Adrien van der Burch. He became a canon of St. Mary's Church, Utrecht in 1555, and on ...

, and the poet Adrianus van der Burch.

References

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