Alphonse or Alfons, Count de Berghes – Glymes (1624 – 7 June 1689) was
Archbishop of
Mechelen,
Belgium
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. He was appointed 7th Archbishop in 1670.
Family
Alphonse was born in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
, and was a member of the important
house of Glymes
The House of Glymes was a noble house of Belgium, of descendants of a bastard branch of the Dukes of Brabant. Glymes or Glimes is a municipality of Incourt. Their descendants of the branch of Grimberghen are styled as the Prince de Grimberghen ...
, his descent was from the branch of Grimberghen. He was the son of
Godefroi de Glymes, 1st Count of Grimberghen, named de Berghes, died 1635. His nephew was
Philippe François de Berghes, 1st Prince of Grimberghen
Philippe François de Berghes (1646–1704) was a diplomat and military commander in the Spanish Netherlands and became the first bearer of the title of prince of Grimberghen.
Family
He was born into the House of Glymes on 17 September 1646, t ...
another nephew was
Georges-Louis de Berghes was the 94th prince-bishop of Liège.
Career
In 1631 he entered the court of pages of the Infanta Isabella of Spain. He entered the state of Clerus because of his weakness and poor health, however his father had foreseen a military career. He was provot in Nivelles and Canon of Tournai. in 1646 he received the tonsure of
Jacobus Boonen
Jacobus Boonen (1573–1655) was the sixth Bishop of Ghent (1617–1620) and the fourth Archbishop of Mechelen (1621–1655).
Life
Born at Antwerp on 11 October 1573, Boonen studied at the University of Leuven from 1587 to 1595 and began a leg ...
, and was ordained priest by Mgr Villain of Tournay in 1650. In 1656 he was almoner of the royal governor and became in 1663 grand almoner and chaplain of King Felipe IV of Spain.
[Crown, Church, and Episcopate Under Louis XIV Door Joseph Bergin] He was ordained in 1671 as 7th Archbishop of Mechelen. In 1683 he ordained
Humbertus Guilielmus de Precipiano as bishop. He was buried in the
St. Rumbold's Cathedral
St. Rumbold's Cathedral ( nl, Sint-Romboutskathedraal, french: Cathédrale Saint-Rombaut) is the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels, Roman Catholic metropolitan archiepiscopal cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium, dedicated to Rumbold of ...
, his grave sculpted by Jacob de Maeyer.
See also
*
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
References
Sources
Alphonse de Berghes
1689 deaths
17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Holy Roman Empire
Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels
Year of birth unknown
Glymes family
1624 births
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