Ferdinand de Boisschot

Chancellor
Ferdinand de Boisschot
Count of Erps,
Baron of Zaventem
Ferdinand de Boischott (1571-1649), Baron Zaventem (Anthony van Dyck, 1630)
Chancellor of Brabant
In office
1625–1649
Monarch Philip IV of Spain
Preceded by Petrus Peckius the Younger
Succeeded by François de Kinschot
Personal details
Died 24 November 1649
Brussels
Resting place Notre Dame on the Sablon
Spouse(s) Anna Maria de Camudio
Alma mater University of Cologne, University of Leuven

Ferdinand van Boisschot (1560s, Brussels – 24 November 1649, Brussels), Baron of Zaventem, was a Netherlandish jurist and diplomat who became chancellor of the Duchy of Brabant.[1]

Early life

Boisschot's father, Jan Baptist van Boisschot, was a member of the Council of Brabant and was killed in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt. His mother took refuge in Cologne, where Ferdinand was raised. He studied law at the University of Cologne and at the University of Leuven.[2]

Career

In 1592 Boisschot was appointed auditor general of the Army of Flanders, a post he held until 1611. From the beginning of 1611 to the end of 1615 he was the diplomatic representative in London of the Sovereign Archdukes Albert and Isabella. In 1615 Philip III of Spain made him a knight in the order of Santiago. He spent a further four years as resident ambassador of the Archdukes in Paris, and was appointed to the Privy Council and the Council of State in Brussels.

In 1621 he was raised to the peerage, being awarded the lordship of Zaventem, and he went on to acquire Fontaine Castle and Groot-Bijgaarden Castle, and the lordships of Nossegem, Sterrebeek and Sint-Stevens-Woluwe. In 1644 he became count of Erps.

He was appointed Chancellor of Brabant, the highest civilian function in the duchy of Brabant, in October 1625, succeeding Petrus Peckius the Younger.

He died in Brussels on 24 November 1649 and was buried in the Church of Our Lady on the Zavel (Notre Dame on the Sablon).

Family

Boisschot was married to Anna Maria de Camudio, countess of Erps. They had one son François de Boisschot, Count of Erps who married Anne Marguerite, countess de Lannoy. He had two granddaughters, from whom the counts of Konigsegg-Rothenfels-Erps descend.

Van Dyck paintings

Anthony van Dyck, St Martin divides his cloak with a beggar, commissioned by Ferdinand de Boisschot

Anthony van Dyck painted a portrait of Boisschot’s wife, Anna Maria de Camudio, and is thought to have painted a now-lost portrait of Ferdinand de Boisschot himself. A copy of the Van Dyck portrait of Boisschot is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from the Earl of Warwick.[3]

Boisschot also commissioned from Van Dyck a painting of Saint Martin and the Beggar, a painting which he donated to the parish church of Zaventem after he was Created Baron of Saventem.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ J. Lefèvre, "Boisschot, Ferdinand de", Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1964), 216-219.
  2. ↑ Charles Victor de Bavay, Ferdinand de Boisschot, chancelier de Brabant (1851). Available on Google Books.
  3. ↑ Susan J. Barnes et al., Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, cat. no. III.A15, p. 406.
  4. ↑ https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/40889
  5. ↑ Estelle M. Hurll, Van Dyck: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter (1902). Transcription available on Project Gutenberg.

Sources

Preceded by
Petrus Peckius the Younger		 Chancellor of Brabant
1625 – 1649		 Succeeded by
François de Kinschot
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