Charles de Croÿ Prince of Chimay ( nl, Karel van Croij; 1506 – 11 December 1564) was a bishop of the
See of Tournai in present-day
Belgium from 1524 until 1564.
Charles was born in 1506 as a member of the
House of Croÿ. He was a nephew of
William de Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres (1458–1521) and a brother of
William de Croÿ,
Archbishop of Toledo (1498–1521). He matriculated at the
University of Louvain
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in 1523. Among Charles' teachers were
Adrianus Barlandus,
Jacobus Latomus, and Johannes Driedo.
A biography of Pierre Cotrel, vicar-general of the Diocese of Tournai from 1497 to 1545, mentions Charles,
as do materials describing a château he built in the village of
Moorsel in 1546.
He was Abbot of
Affligem Abbey between 1521–1564.
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1506 births
1564 deaths
Bishops of Tournai
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire
Charles
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