don Carlos (Lat.: Carolus) Fernández de Velasco, born 1596-died Brussels, 1665 was the 38th abbot of

Grimbergen Abbey Grimbergen Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery in Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, established in 1128 in the place of an earlier foundation of Augustinian Canons. The abbey itself was dissolved in 1796 in the aftermath of the French ...

during 1647–1665. Born in a Spanish important noble family, he was the son of don Santiago Carlos de Velasco and Joanne Gentry. He is a relative of

Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 6th Duke of Frías Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 6th Duke of Frias, Grandee of Spain,in full, es, Don Bernardino Fernández de Velasco Córdoba y Aragón, sexto duque de Frías, cuarto marqués de Berlanga, décimo conde de Haro, cuarto conde de Castilnovo, d� ...

. Abbot de Velasco is elected in 1647, and approved by

Emperor Leopold II , house =Habsburg-Lorraine , father =Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor , mother = Maria Theresa of Hungary and Bohemia , religion =Roman Catholicism , succession1 =Grand Duke of Tuscany , reign1 =18 Au ...

. during his abbatiaat he took the vows of Daniel Bellemans, a poet. Velasco is known to be the builder of the abbey church of Grimbergen in 1660, almost completed at his death. During his period as abbot multiple buildings were erected. Sanderus referred to him in a text.Le bibliophile belge (1845). / Van Dale, 1846

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Fernández de Velasco family Abbots of the Spanish Netherlands 1596 births 1665 deaths {{Belgium-RC-clergy-stub