1631 in Belgium

none 1631 Events in the year 1631 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium). Incumbents Habsburg Netherlands Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc. Governor General – Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria Events Membership of the Walloon Province (Provincia Gallo-Belgica) of the Society of Jesus peaks at 856.Paul Begheyn, Jesuits in the Low Countries and their Publications 5 February – Export of saltpetre and gunpowder prohibited by royal order.Ordonnance du roy nostre sire. Par laquelle sa Majesté deffend le transport des salpetres & pouldres (Hubert Anthoon, 1631) 8 February – Council of Flanders reissues a 1605 clarification of their 1601 proclamation on the production and sale of brandywine, prohibiting innkeepers and tavernkeepers from distilling brandywine, and brandywine distillers from selling retail except to medical professionals.Ordonnantie van myne Heeren vanden Raede in Vlaenderen, op het stoocken vanden ghebrande-wyn (Ghent, Anna vanden Steene, 1631) Available on Google Books 22 March – Detailed proclamation on hunting in the County of Flanders issued in Brussels.Placcaert op t'stuck van de jachte in het landt ende graefschap van Vlaenderen (Brussels, Widow of Hubert Anthoon, 1631) Available on Google Books 1 to 4 June – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, launches an abortive invasion of the County of Flanders from IJzendijke, probing the defences of Bruges. 19 July – Marie de' Medici flees from Compiègne to the Low Countries.Paul Henrard, Marie de Médicis dans les Pays-Bas: 1631-1638 (Paris, 1876). Available on Google Books63 29 July – Marie de' Medici takes up residence in Mons.Henrard 84 5 August – Decree on foreign and billon coinage issued.Placcart du roy nostre sire. Sur le faict des Monnoyes (Widow of Hubert Anthoon, 1631) 11 August – Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia arrives in Mons to welcome Marie de' Medici.Henrard 88 26 November – Antwerp city council issues by-laws against price-gouging in the transportation of firewood. Publications Antonio Álvares Suares, Elogio funebre en cancion real a la vida i hazañas muerte i obsequias del señor Ambrosio Spinola, marques de los Balbases, cavallero de la orden del tuson de oro (Antwerp, Plantin Press) Philippe Chifflet, Histoire du prieuré nostre Dame de Bellefontaine au comté de Bourgongne (Antwerp, Plantin Press) Libertus Fromondus, Labyrinthus sive de compositione continui liber unus: philosophis, mathematicis, theologis utilis ac iucundus (Antwerp, Plantin Press) Emmanuel Rodriguez de Gratia, Rodericus fatalis tragoedia (Leuven, Cornelis Coenesteyn) Pierre Marchant, Expositio litteralis in Regulam S. Francisci (Antwerp, Willem Lesteens). Jean Puget de la Serre, Le Bréviaire des courtisans (Brussels, François Vivien)Le Bréviaire des courtisans on Google Books. Erycius Puteanus, Diva virgo Bellifontana in Sequanis (Antwerp, Plantin Press)Diva virgo Bellifontana available on Google Books. Urban VIII, Onsen alderheyligsten vaders ende heeren Urbani des VIII. paus, suppressie van de vermeynde vergaderinghe der Jesuiterssen (Brussels, Jan Mommaert the Younger) Geeraerd vanden Brande, Brandt in Liefde: Poemata ofte Gedichten (Antwerp, Geeraerdt van Wolsschaten the Younger) Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Les trophées d'Ambroise de Spinola, celebrez par 6 orateurs, Flamen, Frison, Imperial, Brabanceau, Espagnol, et Italien (Leuven, Jacobus Zegers) Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Tragoediae decem (Leuven, Joannes Oliverius and Cornelius Coenesteyn)Tragoediae decem available on Google Books. Johannes Wiggers, In tertiam partem D. Thomae Aquinatis commentaria (Leuven, Joannes Oliverius and Cornelis Coenesteyn) Births Date uncertain – Nikolaus van Hoy, artist (died 1679) 8 March – Jacques Neutre, abbot (died 1679) 8 April (baptism) – Cornelis de Heem, painter (died 1695) 22 June – Francis Rombouts, mayor of New York City (died 1691) 28 November (baptism) – Abraham Brueghel, painter (died c. 1690) 10 December – Jean Baptiste de Champaigne, painter (died 1681) Deaths Date uncertain Charles, Duke of Aumale (born 1555), military commander Tobias Verhaecht (born 1561), painter 11 January – Franciscus Haraeus (born 1555?), clergyman and cartographer August – Countess Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau (born 1580), noblewoman 11 October – Marten Ryckaert (born 1587), painter 18 October – Servais de Lairuelz (born 1560), monastic reformer References 1631 in Category:1631 in Europe Category:Years of the 17th century in the Habsburg Netherlands