Philip de Lalaing (

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, 1537 –

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, 24 May 1582) was 3rd Count of Lalaing and Lord of Escornaix and Wavrin. He was the eldest son of

Charles II de Lalaing Charles II of Lalaing (1506 in Lallaing? – 23 November 1558 in Brussels) was Count of Lalaing, Lord of Escornaix and stadtholder of the County of Hainaut. Family He was the eldest son of Charles I de Lalaing (died 1525) and Jacqueline of Luxe ...

and Margaret of Croÿ (died 1549).
In 1574, at the beginning of 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 ...

, he became

stadtholder In the Low Countries, ''stadtholder'' ( nl, stadhouder ) was an office of steward, designated a medieval official and then a national leader. The ''stadtholder'' was the replacement of the duke or count of a province during the Burgundian and H ...

of Hainaut. First, he was loyal to the Spanish King, but in 1576 he supported the

States-General of the Netherlands The States General of the Netherlands ( nl, Staten-Generaal ) is the supreme bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate () and the House of Representatives (). Both chambers meet at the Binnenhof in The Hague. The States ...

and the

Union of Brussels There were two Unions of Brussels, both formed in the end of the 1570s, in the opening stages of the Eighty Years' War, the war of secession from Spanish control, which lasted from 1568 to 1648. Brussels was at that time the capital of the Spani ...

(1577).
That year, Philip became commander in chief of the army of the States-General, but was decisively defeated in the

Battle of Gembloux (1578) The Battle of Gembloux took place at Gembloux, near Namur, Low Countries, between the Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria (''Spanish: Don Juan de Austria''),Morris p. 268 Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, and a rebel army comp ...

. He was held responsible for the defeat by the Protestants, though he was not actually present at the battle. This and other disputes with the rebels made him sign Hainaut into the

Union of Arras The Union of Arras (Dutch: ''Unie van Atrecht'', French: ''Union d'Arras'', Spanish: ''Unión de Arrás'') was an alliance between the County of Artois, the County of Hainaut and the city of Douai in the Habsburg Netherlands in early 1579 during ...

(January 1579), and reconcile himself with the King of Spain, under certain conditions. Philip served his King loyally the rest of his life. Philip married Margaret of Ligne, daughter of

Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg (c. 1525 – 1568) was Baron of Barbançon, founder of the House of Arenberg and stadtholder of the Dutch provinces of Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe and Overijssel from 1549 until his death. He was the son ...

. They only had one daughter, Margaret of Lalaing, who married with

Florent of Berlaymont Florent of Berlaymont (c. 1550 – 3 April 1626) was Count of Lalaing and Berlaymont, and Stadtholder of Namur, Artois, Guelders-Zutphen and Luxembourg, in the service of the King of Spain. He was the youngest son of Charles de Berlaymont and Ad ...

. Berlaymont inherited all Philip's titles.

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