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Guillaume de Grysperre
Andreas Philopater: lawyer
[[File:Pompa funebris Albert Ardux - Consell.jpg|thumb|Guillaume de Grysperre among the members of the Privy Council attending the funeral of [[Albert VII of Austria]]]]'''Guillaume de Grysperre''' (1543/4–1622) was a jurist who became a member of the [[Brussels Privy Council]].<ref name=Borchgrave>Emile de Borchgrave, "Grysperre, Guillaume de", ''[[Biographie Nationale de Belgique]]'', [https://ift.tt/2YrT9GL vol. 8] (Brussels, 1885), 390-391.</ref>
==Life==
Grysperre was born in 1543 or 1544, the son of Severin de Grysperre, [[pensionary]] of the [[Brugse Vrije|Liberty of Bruges]]. He studied law and himself became pensionary of [[Mechelen]].<ref name=Borchgrave/> In 1576 he was appointed to the [[Great Council of Mechelen]] (the highest law court in the [[Habsburg Netherlands]]), in 1598 to the Privy Council, and in 1614 to the Council of State.<ref name=Borchgrave/>
His first wife, Lievine van der Meere, died on 28 November 1601; his second wife, Guillelmine van der Meere, outlived him.<ref name=Borchgrave/> He died in Brussels on 17 April 1622 and was buried in [[Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula|Brussels minster]] alongside his first wife.<ref name=Borchgrave/>
His son Charles became a councillor and commissioner of finance and married Jeanne-Marie van der Borcht. Their son, [[Guillaume-Albert de Grysperre]], followed in his grandfather's footsteps as a government lawyer.
==References==
[[Category:1540s births]]
[[Category:1622 deaths]]
[[Category:16th-century Belgian lawyers]]
==Life==
Grysperre was born in 1543 or 1544, the son of Severin de Grysperre, [[pensionary]] of the [[Brugse Vrije|Liberty of Bruges]]. He studied law and himself became pensionary of [[Mechelen]].<ref name=Borchgrave/> In 1576 he was appointed to the [[Great Council of Mechelen]] (the highest law court in the [[Habsburg Netherlands]]), in 1598 to the Privy Council, and in 1614 to the Council of State.<ref name=Borchgrave/>
His first wife, Lievine van der Meere, died on 28 November 1601; his second wife, Guillelmine van der Meere, outlived him.<ref name=Borchgrave/> He died in Brussels on 17 April 1622 and was buried in [[Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula|Brussels minster]] alongside his first wife.<ref name=Borchgrave/>
His son Charles became a councillor and commissioner of finance and married Jeanne-Marie van der Borcht. Their son, [[Guillaume-Albert de Grysperre]], followed in his grandfather's footsteps as a government lawyer.
==References==
[[Category:1540s births]]
[[Category:1622 deaths]]
[[Category:16th-century Belgian lawyers]]
August 05, 2019 at 06:27PM
