Ignace-François de Glymes-Brabant (29 March 1677 - 5 November 1755) was a

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born general in the service of Imperial Spain.

Family

He was born one of the 12 children of Gilles II Alexis de Glymes-Brabant; Lord of la Falize at

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, then part of the

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. His grandmother Marie-Elisabeth of Nassau-Corroy, was the daughter of Alexis II of Nassau-Corroy, great-grandson of

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. He married Marie-Francoise de Warigny and had 2 sons: * Honoré de Glymes-Brabant (1725-1804);

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in 1765:
''married to Marie-Theodore, daughter of

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''. * Jean-Alexis de Glymes-Brabant: Abbot in Dinant.

Career

He came earlier to Spain as a colonel of a Walloon Regiment financed by Imperial Spain, to fight in the

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in 1703, the

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(1704–1707), participating also in the siege of

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, in 1711, where he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. He was Military Governor of Tortosa in 1715, Captain General of

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in 1727 and the Captain General of

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(1735–1743), being substituted for the period 1737 - 1738 by Prospero Jorge de Verboom. In 1743 he was made 1st Count of Glimes de Brabante by King

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. He died at Madrid in 1755. {{DEFAULTSORT:Glimes, Ignacio 1677 births 1745 deaths People from Namur (city) Counts of Spain Flemish nobility Spanish generals

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Military personnel of the Spanish Netherlands