Mathias Lambrecht (1539–1602) was the third bishop of Bruges.

Life

Lambrecht was born at

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in the Brugse Vrije around 1539. On 7 January 1569 he graduated

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. Thereafter he taught theology at Park Abbey and was appointed a canon of

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, where he became penitentiary in 1571 and

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in 1588, as well as rural dean of the deanery of

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, "Lambrecht, Mathias", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''
vol. 11
(Brussels, 1891), 209-210 During the disturbances of the

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he took refuge in

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, first at Douai and later at Saint-Omer. He returned to Bruges after the city returned to Habsburg rule in 1584. After the death of

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, the second bishop of Bruges, Lambrecht was appointed his successor. He was consecrated bishop in Leuven on 28 July 1596 by

Mathias Hovius Mathias Hovius (1542–1620), born Matthijs Van Hove, was the third Archbishop of Mechelen from 1596 to 1620. As Archbishop, Hovius presided over implementing the Catholic Reformation in the Spanish Netherlands. Early career Hovius was born in M ...

, archbishop of Mechelen, and was installed in Bruges on 15 August 1596. He died on 1 June 1602, and was buried in the choir of his cathedral.

Writings

Drafts of his letters to cardinals Borghese, Mattei and Baronius, written on 15 February 1602, were published in 1941. His books include: * ''D'leven, doot, ende lijden der Heyligen'' (2 vols., Leuven, Jan Bogaert, 1590) * ''Historia Ecclesiastica. Oft een kerckelijcke historie'' (Antwerp,

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, 1595); dedicated to the city government of Bruges. ** A revised edition with a continuation by

Aubert Miraeus Aubert le Mire, Latinized Aubertus Miraeus (30 November 1573 – 19 October 1640) was an ecclesiastical historian in the Spanish Netherlands. Life Miraeus was born in Brussels. His father was Guillaume le Mire and his mother Joanna Speeckae ...

was published in 1609.Available on Google Books
* ''Un traité de l'Antéchrist'' (1602)

References

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