Maximilien II de Hénin, 5th Count of Bossu
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Maximilien II de Hénin, 5th Count of Bossu (1580–1625) was a noble lord.
Family
[edit]Maxillien was the son of Jacques de Hénin, Marquess of la Veere, brother of Maximilien de Hénin, 3rd Count of Bossu and Marie of Hanaert, Baronnes of Liedekercke.[clarification needed] He became the brother-in-law of Íñigo de Borja and Luis de Velasco y Velasco, 2nd Count of Salazar. In 1605 he married Alexandrin-Françoise of Gavre, daughter of Charles of Gavre, count of Frezin. One of his descendants was Cardinal Thomas d'Alsace.
His family had a chateau in what is modern-day Belgium,[1] though the noble house is now extinct.[2]
Titles
[edit]- 5th Count of Bossu
- Marquess of Veer
- Baron of Liedekercke
- Viscount of Lombeecque
- Grand baillif of Ghent and Aalst.
Career
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He was member of the court of Archduke Leopold, governor of the City of Bethune, Belgium, and colonel in the artillery regiment.[clarification needed] He became a knight of the Golden Fleece[2] in 1628.[citation needed] He died in Liedekerke Castle and is buried in the Mausoleum of Boussu. On his tomb he is depicted kneeling in front of the Virgin Mary. This Renaissance artwork has been placed on the list of major heritage of Wallonia, and is considered one of the finest examples in Belgium.[3]
He died on 8 December 1625.[4] His son-in-law was Irish-born soldier Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell, who married his daughter Anna-Margaret[4][1] in 1632.[5]
Books
[edit]- Fourez, Lucien et Dubuisson, Pierre, Deux chapelles uniques en Hainaut : Les chapelles funéraires de Howardries et Boussu, dans Revue belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, XXIV, 1955, 3–4, pp. 165–217.
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b O'Donnell 2006, p. 44. fn. 46. "Hugh Albert (1606-1642), married Princess Anne Marguerite of Henin-Lietard (1608-1634). Her family had a beautiful chateau in what is now Belgium... Hugh Albert died on 1st July, 1642 in Barcelona, Spain. He had no issue."
- ^ a b Burke 1866, p. 410. "... m. the dau. of a knight of the Golden Fleece (of a now extinct house in the Low Countries, hardly second at that time to any subject family on the continent), Anna-Margaret, dau. of Maximilian de Henin, Count de Bossut, and a near kinswoman of the last eccentric Duke of Guise."
- ^ "Mausolée de Maximilien II de Hennin-Liétard et d'Alexandrine-Françoise de Gavre".
- ^ a b Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1866, p. 461. "...towards the year 1635, 'Hugh Albert O'Neill, Count of Tyrone, married, in the Low Countries, Anne de Hennin, eldest daughter of Maximilian de Hennin, Baron of Liederkerke, Viscount of Brussels, Count of Bossut, &c., Knight of the Golden Fleece, who died on the 8th December, 1625, and of Alexandrine Françoise de Gavre, his wife.'"
- ^ Jennings, Brendan (1941). "The Career of Hugh, Son of Rory O Donnell, Earl of Tirconnel, in the Low Countries, 1607-1642". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 30 (118): 219–234. ISSN 0039-3495. JSTOR 30097953.
Sources
[edit]- Burke, Sir Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison.
- Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society (11 April 1866). "Proceedings and Papers". The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. 5.
- O'Donnell, Eunan (2006). "Reflection on the Flight of the Earls". Donegal Annual. 58: 31–44.