Nicolas de Montmorency (ca. 1556–1617), count of

Estaires Estaires (; vls, Stegers) is a commune in the Nord department of the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. The town gives its name to a type of chicken bred in the area: the Estaires chicken. Geography Estaires is located in French Fland ...

, was an office holder and spiritual author in the

Spanish Netherlands Spanish Netherlands (Spanish: Países Bajos Españoles; Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden; French: Pays-Bas espagnols; German: Spanische Niederlande.) (historically in Spanish: ''Flandes'', the name "Flanders" was used as a ''pars pro toto'') was the Ha ...

Life

Nicolas de Montmorency was born in by 1556, the third son of François de Montmorency, lord of Wastines, and Hélène Villain. In his youth he served in the household of

Philip II of Spain Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...

. In 1583 he was appointed as Chief of Finances (president of the Council of Finance) for the

and a councillor of state. On 8 August 1611 he was made count of Estaires. In 1604 he founded a

Bridgettine The Bridgettines, or Birgittines, formally known as the Order of the Most Holy Savior (; abbreviated OSsS), is a monastic religious order of the Catholic Church founded by Saint Birgitta or Bridget of Sweden in 1344, and approved by Pope Urban ...

convent in

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

that was early struck by a notorious case of demonic possession. The

Neo-Latin New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) is the revival of Literary Latin used in original, scholarly, and scientific works since about 1500. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy ...

poet

Maximiliaan de Vriendt Maximiliaan de Vriendt, Latinized Maximus Æmilianus Vrientius (1559–1614), was a Neo-Latin poet and a civic office-holder in the city of Ghent. Life De Vriendt was born at Zandenburg Castle, Veere, on 31 January 1559, to Jacques Jacobs de Vrien ...

addressed two epigrams to him, one of which attests to his reputation for piety. He married Anne de Croy (died 12 April 1618), lady of Bermeraing, but remained childless. He died in Ghent on 16 May 1617. His entrails were buried in the city, his heart in the family vault in

, and the rest of his remains in the Bridgettine convent he had founded.

Jean-Noël Paquot Jean-Noël Paquot (1722–1803) was a Belgian theologian, historian, Hebrew scholar and bibliographer. Life Paquot was born in Florennes in 1722. In 1738 he enrolled at the University of Louvain, graduating Licentiate of Theology in 1751. Fro ...

,
Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire littéraire des dix-sept provinces de Pays-Bas, de la Principauté de Liége, et de quelques contrées voisines
', vol. 3 (Louvain, 1764), 165-168.

Works

*''Manuale principes'' (Douai,

Balthazar Bellerus Balthasar or Balthazar Bellerus or Bellère (active 1589–1634) was a printer first at Antwerp and later at Douai in the Habsburg Netherlands. He was a son of the reputable Antwerp printer Joannes Bellerus, and set up a printing shop of his own in ...

, 1597) *''Manna Absconditum'' (Leuven,

Gerard Rivius Gerard van Rivieren, Latinized Gerardus Rivius (active 1592–1625) was a printer in the Southern Netherlands. He was the publisher of Martin Delrio's famous witchcraft treatise ''Disquistiones Magicae'' and was at one time suspected of having prin ...

, 1602)
Available on Google Books
*''Flos Campi'' (Leuven, Gerard Rivius, 1604)
Available on Google Books
*''Exercices devots et journaliers a l'honneur du glorieux S. Joseph'' (Brussels,

Rutger Velpius Rutger Velpius (around 1540–1614/15) was a 16th- and 17th-century printer and bookseller. He was the first printer in the city of Mons, and later became printer to the court in Brussels. His career coincided closely with the first decades of the ...

and Hubert Anthoon, 1610)
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*''La Semaine chrétienne'' (Douai, 1612) *''Fontaine d'amour divisée en sept parties, composée & recueillie à l'honneur de Dieu, pour l'entretien des âmes devotes'' (Brussels, Rutger Velpius and Hubert Anthoon, 1613) **Translated into Dutch by

Adriaan van Meerbeeck Adrianus or Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627) was a writer and translator from Antwerp. Life Meerbeeck was born in Antwerp in 1563. By 1600 he was headmaster of the Aalst grammar school, and he was still living in Aalst in 1625.A. J. van der Aa, ...

as ''Vloeyende fonteyne der Liefde'' (Antwerp,

Caesar Joachim Trognaesius Caesar Joachim Trognaesius or Troigney (born 1590) was a 17th-century printer-bookseller and calligraphic type designer. Life Caesar Joachim continued the bookshop and printing business of his father, Joachim Trognaesius, on the churchyard of Antw ...

, 1617). Reprinted Leuven, 1690. *''L'Amour de Marie divise en trois parties, faict et compose a l'honneur de Dieu & de la Vierge Marie'' (Brussels, Hubert Anthoon, 1614) *''Diurnale pietatis'' (Antwerp, Gaspar Bellerus, 1616)
Available from the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

References

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