Charles II of Lalaing (1506 in

Lallaing Lallaing () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Population Heraldry See also * Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic. The communes ...

? – 23 November 1558 in

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) was Count of Lalaing, Lord of Escornaix and

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 the

County of Hainaut The County of Hainaut (french: Comté de Hainaut; nl, Graafschap Henegouwen; la, comitatus hanoniensis), sometimes spelled Hainault, was a territorial lordship within the medieval Holy Roman Empire that straddled what is now the border of Belg ...

Family

He was the eldest son of

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 ...

(died 1525) and Jacqueline of Luxemburg-Fiennes (died 1511), and succeeded his father as second Count of Lalaing. His younger brother was

Philip de Lalaing, 2nd Count of Hoogstraten {{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 L ...

, who became Stadtholder of Guelders, Zutphen and Jülich. Charles married on August 30, 1528 with Margaret of Croÿ (died 1549), daughter of Charles I of Croÿ-Chimay. They had 13 children of which 12 died young, except : *

Philip de Lalaing (1537-1582) Philip de Lalaing (Lallaing, 1537 – Mons, 24 May 1582) was 3rd Count of Lalaing and Lord of Escornaix and Wavrin. He was the eldest son of Charles II de Lalaing and Margaret of Croÿ (died 1549). In 1574, at the beginning of the Eighty Years' ...

, Lord of Escornaix and also stadtholder of Hainaut. After Margaret's death, Charles remarried in 1550 with Marie of Montmorency. They had 4 children : *Hughes de Lalaing, Lord of Condé (1551–1618) *Charles de Lalaing (died 1553) *

Emanuel Philibert de Lalaing Emanuel Filibert van Lalaing (Valenciennes, May 5, 1557 – Mons December 27, 1590) was a noble and army commander from the Low Countries. Emanuel Philibert was the third son of Charles II de Lalaing and Marie of Montmorency. He was Lord of Monti ...

, Lord of Montigny and Margrave of Renty (1557–1590) *Philippe-Christine de Lalaing, also known at

Marie-Christine de Lalaing Marie-Christine de Lalaing, or Philippe-Christine de Lalaing, was the daughter of Count Charles II of Lalaing and Marie de Montmorency-Nivelle. She was married to Pierre de Melun, the governor of Tournai. In the absence of her husband, she defe ...

(died 1582)

Career

In 1531, at the age of 25, Charles became a Knight in the

Order of the Golden Fleece The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece ( es, Insigne Orden del Toisón de Oro, german: Orden vom Goldenen Vlies) is a Catholic order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in 1430, to celebrate his marriage ...

. In 1534–35 he took part in

Charles V Charles V may refer to: * Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) * Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain * Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise * Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643–1690) * Infan ...

's Tunis Campaign.M. Baelde, "Lalaing, Karel, graaf van", '' Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek'', vol. 3 (Brussels, 1968), pp. 479-484. He also served as one of the foremost commanders in the later stages of the

Guelders Wars The Guelders Wars (, German: ''Geldrische Erbfolgekriege'') were a series of conflicts in the Low Countries between the Duke of Burgundy, who controlled Holland, Flanders, Brabant, and Hainaut on the one side, and Charles, Duke of Guelders, ...

. In 1540 Lalaing became a member of the Council of State (''Raad van State'') and in 1544 head of the Council of Finance. In 1549 he was appointed Governor and High Bailiff of the

. He remained governor until his death, but resigned as bailiff in 1556. When the Governor of the Netherlands,

Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy Emmanuel Philibert ( it, Emanuele Filiberto; pms, Emanuel Filibert; 8 July 1528 – 30 August 1580), known as ( pms, Testa 'd fer, links=no; "Ironhead", because of his military career), was Duke of Savoy from 1553 to 1580. He is remembered fo ...

, left for Italy in 1557 to fight the French in the

Italian War of 1551–1559 Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

, Charles became his temporary substitute.

References

External links

Geneanet - Charles II de Lalaing

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