Emanuel Sueyro (1587–1629), Lord of Voorde, Knight of Christ, was an intelligence agent and historian in the 17th-century

Habsburg Netherlands Habsburg Netherlands was the Renaissance period fiefs in the Low Countries held by the Holy Roman Empire's House of Habsburg. The rule began in 1482, when the last House of Valois-Burgundy, Valois-Burgundy ruler of the Netherlands, Mary of Burgu ...

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Of Portuguese descent, Emanuel Sueyro was born and brought up in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

. He translated classical and more recent Latin histories into Spanish, and wrote a two-part history of the Low Countries, ''Anales de Flandes'' (1624). He was head of a secret intelligence network in the Habsburg Netherlands, reporting to

Philip III of Spain Philip III ( es, Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. As Philip II, he was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death in 1621. A member of the House of Habsburg, Phi ...

.J.J. Poelhekke, ''Het verraad van de pistoletten?'' (Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, new series 88; Amsterdam, 1975) For this work he was awarded a knightship in the Order of Christ. He was lord of Voorde by purchase.

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* ''Descripcion breve del pais baxo'' (Antwerp, Gerard Wolsschaten, 1622) * ''Anales de Flandes'' (Antwerp, Peter and Jan Bellerus, 1624), dedicated to

Philip IV of Spain Philip IV ( es, Felipe, pt, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: ''Rey Planeta''), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered f ...

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Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historiography, Roman historians by modern scholars. The surviving portions of his t ...

, ''Las obras de C. Cornelio Tacito'' (Antwerp, heirs of Peter Bellerus, 1613), dedicated to

Isabel Clara Eugenia Isabella Clara Eugenia ( es, link=no, Isabel Clara Eugenia; 12 August 1566 – 1 December 1633), sometimes referred to as Clara Isabella Eugenia, was sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands in the Low Countries and the north of modern France with ...

Sallust Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (; 86 – ), was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became during the 50s BC a partisan o ...

, ''Obras de Caio Crispo Sallustio'' (Antwerp, G. Wolsschaten & H. Aerts for Jan Van Keerbergen, 1615), dedicated to Don Juan de Mendoza, Duke of the Infantado *

Herman Hugo Herman Hugo (9 May 1588 – 11 September 1629) was a Jesuit priest, writer and military chaplain. His ''Pia desideria'', a spiritual emblem book published in Antwerp in 1624, was "the most popular religious emblem book of the seventeenth century". ...

, ''Sitio de Breda rendida a las armas del rey don Phelipe IV'' (Antwerp, Plantin office, 1627), dedicated to

Ambrogio Spinola Ambrogio Spinola Doria, 1st Marquess of Los Balbases and 1st Duke of Sesto (1569-25 September 1630) was an Italian ''condottiero'' and nobleman of the Republic of Genoa, who served as a Spanish general and won a number of important battles. He i ...

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