{{Infobox noble, type , name = Philip de Lalaing , title = 2nd Count of Hoogstraten , image = Philip de Lalaing, Count of Hoogstraten, by Hans Liefrinck I (before 1550).jpg , caption = Philip de Lalaing, Count of Hoogstraten, by

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Charles I de Lalaing Charles de Lalaing, baron and later 1st count of Lalaing, lord of Escornaix (1466 – Oudenaarde, July 18, 1525). Life Charles was born as the eldest son of Joost de Lalaing, from a family of landowners from Hainaut. He was married to Jacob ...

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Hoogstraten Hoogstraten () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises Hoogstraten, Meer, Meerle, Meersel-Dreef, Minderhout and Wortel (Meersel-Dreef includes the northernmost point in Belgium). Hoogstraten ...

(d. after 1555) was

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(1543) and

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(1544 - 1555).

Life

A descendant from a noble family from Hainaut, Philip was the son of

and Jacoba of Luxembourg. He inherited the title of count of Hoogstraten from his childless uncle Antoine de Lalaing. He was also lord of Escornaix and Ville. In 1532 he married Anna of Rennenberg, the only daughter of William, count of Rennenberg and Cornelia of Culemborg. From this marriage he had two sons and three daughters: *

Antoine II de Lalaing Antoine II of Lalaing (1533–1568), 3rd count of Hoogstraten, was a patron and nobleman of the Southern Netherlands. He was the son of the second count Philip de Lalaing and his wife Anna of Rennenberg. At the age of 22 he took possession of t ...

, 3rd count of Hoogstraten; *

George de Lalaing, Count of Rennenberg George de Lalaing count Rennenberg (c. 1550 – 23 July 1581), was stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe and Overijssel in the service of Philip II of Spain from 1577 to 1581. The Lalaing family came from Hainaut and had a tradition of gov ...

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* Cornelia of Lalaing (died 1610), married William of Hamal

Political career

In 1543 Philip became

of the recently conquered

for a short time. When it became clear that this function would cease to exist because the lands of Jülich belonged to the Duke of Cleves, a different function was sought for Philip.

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, proposed making Philip stadtholder of

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, disagreed: she felt the province of Utrecht could not be uncoupled from

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. Eventually Philip succeeded

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in 1544 as stadtholder of

, but his power was significantly reduced by the regentes in favor of the central government in

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Hoogstraten remained staunchly loyal to the emperor and was succeeded after his death in 1555 by the more headstrong

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