Guillaume de Berghes or of Glymes(1551–1609), baron of

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, was

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from 1597 to 1601 and

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from 1601 until his death.

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, "Grimberghe, Guillaume de Glymes de Berghes, baron de", ''

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vol. 8
(Brussels, 1885), 309-312.

Life

Family

Berghes was the third son of Ferry de Berghes, Baron of Grimberghen and Anne de Stercke, lady of Stabroeck, Bucquoy, Wyneghem, etc., who had grown up in Sterckshof.''Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du Comté de Bourgogne'', Volume 4 All the descendants of the branch of Grimbergen are called de Berghes to distinguish them from the other branches in the family. He was an uncle of

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and a great-uncle of

Alphonse de Berghes Alphonse or Alfons, Count de Berghes – Glymes (1624 – 7 June 1689) was Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium. He was appointed 7th Archbishop in 1670. Family Alphonse was born in Brussels, and was a member of the important house of Glymes, his ...

Career

After studying Law and Theology at the universities of

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and

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, Berghes was appointed a

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of the

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. On 8 April 1578 the prince-bishop of Liège,

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, appointed him dean of the chapter of St John the Evangelist, after a contested election. Having gone to Rome to obtain papal confirmation, Berghes was appointed a

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. On 5 January 1583 he was transferred to a canonry of

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, and shortly afterwards was sent to Rome as the envoy of

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. He was later sent on diplomatic missions to

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, Governor General of the

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. On 2 September 1585 he was elected dean of St Lambert's, taking possession of the post on 20 January 1586. In 1590–91 he again undertook negotiations in Rome. He was appointed bishop of Antwerp in 1597, in succession to

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, and left Liège on 6 March 1598, being consecrated bishop on 29 March and installed in his see on 22 April. He served as bishop of Antwerp until 1601, when he was elected archbishop of Cambrai. He was succeeded in Antwerp by

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Death and commemoration

Berghes died in

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on 25 April 1609. By his will he established a bursary of 100 Brabant florins to support a German-speaking student in the seminary of Liège who would serve in one of the German-language parishes of the diocese. He was memorialised with a stained glass window in the choir of Liège cathedral, and a marble tomb in Cambrai cathedral.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berghes, Guillaume de Glymes family 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire Bishops of Antwerp Archbishops of Cambrai 1551 births 1609 deaths