Pierre Coloma (1587–1656), Baron of Bornhem, Viscount of Dourlens and Lord of Brestel, Terna, Allennes, Moriensart and Seroulx, was a Flemish noble lord and member of the famous

House of Coloma Coloma or de Coloma or Colomba is an old important Spanish Noble House. A branch belongs to the Flemish nobility, and became the Counts of Bornhem. Other branches became the Counts of Elda, Marquesses of Espinar, Marquesses of Noguera and Marq ...

. He was born to

Pedro Coloma, Baron of Bornhem Don Pedro Coloma (died 27 December 1621), Baron of Bornhem and Lord of Bobadilla, was a Spanish officer in the Army of Flanders who established a noble line in the Habsburg Netherlands, a branch of the famous House of Coloma. Family Coloma was t ...

(died 1621), and Jeanne l'Escuyer, Viscountess of Dourlens (died 1645).

Jean Charles Joseph de Vegiano Jean Charles Joseph de Vegiano (1724–1794), lord of Hovel, was a genealogist and heraldist of the nobility of the Low Countries and the County of Burgundy The Free County of Burgundy or Franche-Comté (french: Franche Comté de Bourgogne; germa ...

, ''Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du comté de Bourgogne'', edited by J.S.F.J.L. de Herckenrode
vol. 1, part 1
(Ghent, 1865), p. 502. He was baptised in

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, with the

Count of Mansfeld Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld (german: Peter Ernst Graf von Mansfeld; c. 158029 November 1626), or simply Ernst von Mansfeld, was a German military commander who, despite being a Catholic, fought for the Protestants during the early years of the ...

as godfather. He inherited the title baron of Bornhem from his elder brother, Alexander, who died childless in 1625, and that of viscount of Dourlens from his mother, at her death in 1645. On 11 October 1629 he married Cornélie de Vos (died 1636), lady of Beaupré, Hamme and Hendercordel, who was the daughter of Pierre de Vos, knight, and Catherine Cabillau, lady of Ham. They had two sons: Jean-François and

Pierre Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

. In 1646, 1647 and 1649 Coloma was royal commissioner for the renewal of the magistracies of Flanders. He died on 9 October 1656.

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1587 births 1656 deaths Coloma family People from Bornem People of the Holy Roman Empire {{Europe-noble-stub