Ferdinand van Spoelberch (1596–1675), Knight of the Order of Christ, Lord of Lovenjoul, was an officer in the Army of Flanders during the

Eighty Years' War The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt ( nl, Nederlandse Opstand) ( c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Refo ...

Life

Van Spoelberch was born in Brussels on 13 August 1596, the son of

Jan Baptist van Spoelberch Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Num ...

and Maria Magdalena Garet. Herman Vander Linden, "Spoelberch, Ferdinand van"
vol. 23
(Brussels, 1924), 469-470. In April 1621 he accompanied Ferdinand van Boisschot on a diplomatic mission to France. On 12 January 1626 he married Anna de Grimaldi of Morazane (died 6 January 1634), daughter of Simon de Grimaldi, secretary to the

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. A portrait of the couple has been attributed to

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.Ferdinand van Spoelberch en Anna Grimaldi in geknielde houding
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage. Accessed 8 July 2017. They had four children: Anna Maria (1627-1627), Maria Magdalena (1628-1635), Karel Frans (1630-1692) and Christoffel (1633-1707). Van Spoelberch became lord of Lovenjoel on 17 July 1630, and by letters patent of 23 February 1633 was appointed meier of the ten villages subject to the aldermen of Lubbeek (now in

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, ''Recueil historique, généalogique, chronologique et nobiliaire des maisons et familles illustres et nobles du royaume, précédé de la généalogie historique de la maison royale des Pays-Bas'' (Brussels, 1826)
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He played a significant part in the defence of Leuven (1635), in recognition of which Philip IV of Spain on 31 March 1649 made him a lord in his own right. On 10 February 1662

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appointed van Spoelberch a Knight of the Order Christ. He was invested by Andreas Creusen, Archbishop of Mechelen, on 13 April 1662. Van Spoelberch died in Leuven on 8 February 1675, and was buried in the family vault in the church of the Recollects. The work ''Brusselschen Blom-hof van Cupido'' (Brussels, 1641) was dedicated to him by the author,

Willem van der Borcht Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, G ...

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