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Louis-Alexander Scockart
Louis-Alexander Scockart (1633–1708), count of Tirimont, was an officeholder and diplomat of the Spanish Netherlands, and signatory of the Treaty of Ryswick on behalf of Charles II of Spain. Life Scockart was born in Mons, in the county of Hainaut, on 29 August 1633. He studied law at Leuven University and entered a career in public administration, eventually sitting on the Council of Finance, the Supreme Council of Flanders in Madrid, the Privy Council in Brussels, and being appointed treasurer of the royal domains in the Low Countries.Eugène Duchesne, "Scockart, Louis-Alexandre", in ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 22(Brussels, 1920), 108-110. He was ennobled in 1668, knighted in 1672, and awarded the title count of Tirimont in 1690. In 1697 Scockart was appointed ambassador plenipotentiary of Charles II for the negotiation of the Treaty of Ryswick, which concluded the Nine Years' War. He remained involved in negotiations about the treaty's implementation until the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714. They were a collection of States of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries held in personal union by the Spanish Crown (also called Habsburg Spain). This region comprised most of the modern states of Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as parts of northern France, the southern Netherlands, and western Germany with the capital being Brussels. The Army of Flanders was given the task of defending the territory. The Imperial fiefs of the former Burgundian Netherlands had been inherited by the Austrian House of Habsburg from the extinct House of Valois-Burgundy upon the death of Mary of Burgundy in 1482. The Seventeen Provinces formed the core of the Habsburg N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
