Great Council of Mechelen, the Glossary

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1. 77 relations: Appellate court, Arthur Gaillard, Artois, Augsburg, Balthazar Ayala, Brabantine Gothic, Brussels, Burgundian Netherlands, Charles the Bold, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Christophe-Ernest, 1st Count of Baillet, Council of state, Council of Troubles, County of Flanders, County of Hainaut, Doctor (title), Duchy of Brabant, Duchy of Guelders, Duchy of Luxembourg, Dutch Republic, Eighty Years' War, Executive (government), Filips Wielant, Freemasonry, French Revolution, Friesland, Goswin de Fierlant, Goubau family, Great Privilege, Guillaume-Albert de Grysperre, Henri de Vicq, Lord of Meuleveldt, Hieronymus van Busleyden, Hof van Savoye, Hoge Raad van Holland en Zeeland, Huissier de justice, Hyacinthe-Marie de Brouchoven, Igram van Achelen, Inheritance, Jan I Carondelet, Jan van der Burch, Jean Alphonse, 1st Count de Coloma, Jean Carondelet, Jean de Glymes, Lord of Waterdijk, Jean-Antoine Locquet, Lambert de Briarde, Lord of Liezele, Legal history, Legislature, Letter of marque, Licentiate (degree), Lille, ... Expand index (27 more) »

2. 1470s in the Burgundian Netherlands
3. 1794 disestablishments in the Habsburg monarchy
4. 1794 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire
5. Buildings and structures in Mechelen
6. Councils
7. Courts and councils in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands
8. Courts and tribunals disestablished in 1794
9. Courts and tribunals established in 1473
10. Disestablishments in the Austrian Netherlands
11. Early modern history of Luxembourg
12. Habsburg Netherlands
13. History of Mechelen
14. Legal history of Belgium
15. Legal history of the Netherlands

Appellate court

An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

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Arthur Gaillard

Arthur Gaillard (1847–1912) was the head of the State Archives in Belgium from 1904 until his death.

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Artois

Artois (Artesië; Picard: Artoé; English adjective: Artesian) is a region of northern France.

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Augsburg

Augsburg (label) is a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich.

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Balthazar Ayala

Balthazar Ayala (1548–1584) was a military judge in the Habsburg Netherlands during the opening decades of the Eighty Years' War who wrote an influential treatise on the law of war.

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Brabantine Gothic

Brabantine Gothic, occasionally called Brabantian Gothic, is a significant variant of Gothic architecture that is typical for the Low Countries.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Burgundian Netherlands

In the history of the Low Countries, the Burgundian Netherlands (Burgundiae Belgicae, Pays-Bas bourguignons., Bourgondische Nederlanden, Burgundesch Nidderlanden, Bas Payis borguignons) or the Burgundian Age is the period between 1384 and 1482, during which a growing part of the Low Countries was ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy.

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Charles the Bold

Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), called The Bold, was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of the House of Valois from 1467 to 1477.

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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.

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Christophe-Ernest, 1st Count of Baillet

Christophe-Ernest, 1st Count of Baillet (1668-1732) was a leading figure in the government of the Austrian Netherlands. Great Council of Mechelen and Christophe-Ernest, 1st Count of Baillet are history of Mechelen.

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Council of state

A council of state is a governmental body in a country, or a subdivision of a country, with a function that varies by jurisdiction. Great Council of Mechelen and council of state are councils.

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Council of Troubles

The Council of Troubles (usual English translation of Raad van Beroerten, or Tribunal de los Tumultos, or Conseil des Troubles) was the special tribunal instituted on 9 September 1567 by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, governor-general of the Habsburg Netherlands on the orders of Philip II of Spain to punish the ringleaders of the recent political and religious troubles in the Netherlands. Great Council of Mechelen and Council of Troubles are courts and councils in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands.

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County of Flanders

The County of Flanders was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of what is now Belgium.

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County of Hainaut

The County of Hainaut (Comté de Hainaut.; Graafschap Henegouwen.; comitatus hanoniensis.), sometimes spelled Hainault, was a territorial lordship within the medieval Holy Roman Empire that straddled the present-day border of Belgium and France.

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Doctor (title)

Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning.

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Duchy of Brabant

The Duchy of Brabant, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was established in 1183. Great Council of Mechelen and Duchy of Brabant are 1794 disestablishments in the Habsburg monarchy, 1794 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire and Disestablishments in the Austrian Netherlands.

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Duchy of Guelders

The Duchy of Guelders (Gelre, Gueldre, Geldern) is a historical duchy, previously county, of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries. Great Council of Mechelen and duchy of Guelders are 1470s in the Burgundian Netherlands.

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Duchy of Luxembourg

The Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxemburg; Luxembourg; Luxemburg; Lëtzebuerg) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, the ancestral homeland of the noble House of Luxembourg. Great Council of Mechelen and Duchy of Luxembourg are early modern history of Luxembourg.

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Dutch Republic

The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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Eighty Years' War

The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.

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Executive (government)

The executive, also referred to as the juditian or executive power, is that part of government which executes the law; in other words, directly makes decisions and holds power.

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Filips Wielant

Filips Wielant (1441/2–1520) was a magistrate and legal theorist in the Burgundian Netherlands, and a participant in the Flemish revolts against Maximilian of Austria.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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Friesland

Friesland (official Fryslân), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part.

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Goswin de Fierlant

Goswin Anne-Marie Félix de Fierlant (ca. 1735—1804) was a holder of high office in the Austrian Netherlands who served on the Council of State, as the last president of the Great Council, and briefly as Chief President of the Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands.

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Goubau family

The Goubau family was an important noble family of Antwerp, many of its members are related to other important families.

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Great Privilege

The Great Privilege was an instrument signed by Mary of Burgundy on 11 February 1477, which reconfirmed a number of privileges to the States General of the Netherlands. Great Council of Mechelen and Great Privilege are legal history of the Netherlands.

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Guillaume-Albert de Grysperre

Guillaume-Albert de Grysperre, baron of Goyck and Libersart (1637–1725) was a Brabantine noble lord who was awarded the title of baron de Grysperre in 1691.

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Henri de Vicq, Lord of Meuleveldt

Henri IV de Vicq, Lord of Meuleveldt (1573–1651), was a Flemish ambassador and became president of the Great Council of Mechelen.

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Hieronymus van Busleyden

Hieronymus van Busleyden (Dutch: Jeroen van Busleyden; French: Jérôme de Busleyden) (c.1470 – 27 August 1517) was a patron of learning and a humanist from the Habsburg Netherlands.

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Hof van Savoye

The Hof van Savoye (Court of Savoy) or Palace of Margaret of Austria is an early 16th-century building in Mechelen, Belgium. Great Council of Mechelen and Hof van Savoye are buildings and structures in Mechelen.

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Hoge Raad van Holland en Zeeland

The Hoge Raad van Holland, Zeeland en West-Friesland (usually translated in the literature as "High Court of Holland and Zeeland," though "Supreme Court" may better designate its function, and the literal translation is: "High Council of Holland and Zeeland") was the supreme court of the provinces of Holland and Zeeland in the Dutch Republic in the period 1582–1795.

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Huissier de justice

A huissier de justice (literally French for "justice usher"), sometimes translated to judicial officer, is an officer of the court in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Quebec, and Switzerland.

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Hyacinthe-Marie de Brouchoven

Hyachinthe-Marie de Brouchoven (1650–1707), Lord of Steen and Spy, was a Flemish nobleman who became president of the Great Council of Mechelen.

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Igram van Achelen

Igram van Achelen (1528, 's-Hertogenbosch – 18 October 1604, Mechelen) was a Dutch statesman.

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Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual.

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Jan I Carondelet

Jan (Jean) I Carondelet (1428, Dole, Jura – 2 March 1502, Mechelen) was a Burgundian jurist and politician.

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Jan van der Burch

Jan van der Burch (died 1595) was an office-holder in the Habsburg Netherlands.

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Jean Alphonse, 1st Count de Coloma

Jean Alphonse, 1st Count de Coloma (28 January 1677 – 7 January 1739), was a Flemish noble lord of Spanish descent, a member of the House of Coloma. Great Council of Mechelen and Jean Alphonse, 1st Count de Coloma are history of Mechelen.

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Jean Carondelet

Jean II Carondelet (1469 in Dôle – 7 February 1545 in Mechelen), was a Burgundian cleric, politician, jurist and one of the most important advisors to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Jean de Glymes, Lord of Waterdijk

Jean de Glymes de Berghes or Jan van Bergen (died 1583), Lord of Waterdijk, was an officeholder in the Habsburg Netherlands.

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Jean-Antoine Locquet

Jean-Antoine Locquet (– 22 March 1687), Lord of Impel, was a Brabantine lawyer who served as president of the Great Council of Mechelen and in 1681 became first viscount of Hombeke (Hombecque).

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Lambert de Briarde, Lord of Liezele

Lambert de Briarde, Lord of Liezele sometimes Lambrecht van den Bryaerde (died 10 October 1557) was a Flemish judge.

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Legal history

Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.

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Letter of marque

A letter of marque and reprisal (lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer, licensing international military operations against a specified enemy as reprisal for a previous attack or injury.

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Licentiate (degree)

A licentiate (abbreviated Lic.) is an academic degree present in many countries, representing different educational levels.

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Lille

Lille (Rijsel; Lile; Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.

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Lordship of Mechelen

The Lordship of Mechelen (Heerlijkheid Mechelen, Seigneurie de Malines) was a small autonomous Lordship in the Low Countries, consisting of the city of Mechelen and some surrounding villages. Great Council of Mechelen and Lordship of Mechelen are history of Mechelen.

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Luxembourgish

Luxembourgish (also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; Lëtzebuergesch) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg.

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Mandate (criminal law)

A criminal court may impose a "mandate" as part of a legal process on a person accused of a crime consisting of an obligation to engage in certain conditions or activities in exchange for suspension or reduction in penalty; such as, conditions of probation, conditional discharges, or other conditional sentences.

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Mary of Burgundy

Mary of Burgundy (Marie de Bourgogne; Maria van Bourgondië; 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy who ruled a collection of states that included the duchies of Limburg, Brabant, Luxembourg, the counties of Namur, Holland, Hainaut and other territories, from 1477 until her death in 1482.

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Master of Requests

Master of Requests, from the Latin Requestarum Magister, is an office that developed in several European systems of law and government in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period.

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Mechelen

Mechelen (Malines; historically known as Mechlin in EnglishMechelen has been known in English as Mechlin, from where the adjective Mechlinian is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical context. The city's French name, Malines, had also been used in English in the past (in the 19th and 20th centuries); however, this has largely been abandoned.

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Namur

Namur (Namen; Nameur) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium.

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Nicolaas Everaerts

Klaas Evertszoon, also called Nicolaus Everardi (1461/62–1532) was a Dutch jurist and the father of Johannes Secundus, an acclaimed poet.

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Order of the Golden Fleece

The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece (Insigne Orden del Toisón de Oro, 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 to Isabella of Portugal.

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Overijssel

Overijssel (Oaveriessel; Oberyssel) is a province of the Netherlands located in the eastern part of the country.

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Parlement of Paris

The Parlement of Paris (Parlement de Paris) was the oldest parlement in the Kingdom of France, formed in the 14th century.

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Philip the Handsome

Philip the Handsome (22 June/July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg King of Castile (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506.

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Privilege (law)

A privilege is a certain entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis.

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Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands

The Privy Council or Secret Council (Geheime Raad, Conseil Privé) was one of the three "collateral councils" (along with the Council of Finance and Council of State) that together formed the highest government institutions of the Habsburg Netherlands. Great Council of Mechelen and Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands are courts and councils in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands and Habsburg Netherlands.

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Regensburg

Regensburg (historically known in English as Ratisbon) is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers, Danube's northernmost point.

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Roermond

Roermond (Remunj or Remuunj) is a city, municipality, and diocese in the Limburg province of the Netherlands.

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Rombout II Keldermans

Rombout II Keldermans (ca. 1460 in Mechelen – 15 December 1531 in Antwerp), was an important architect from the Gothic period, born from a family of architects and sculptors (see Keldermans family).

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Schepenhuis, Mechelen

The italic (Aldermen's House) of Mechelen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, is a building where the city's aldermen held their meetings in the Middle Ages.

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Seventeen Provinces

The Seventeen Provinces were the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 16th century. Great Council of Mechelen and Seventeen Provinces are early modern history of Luxembourg and Habsburg Netherlands.

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Snoy

The Snoy family or Snoy d'Oppuers currently Snoy et d'Oppuers, is a Belgian noble family.

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Southern Netherlands

The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were the parts of the Low Countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire which were at first largely controlled by Habsburg Spain (Spanish Netherlands, 1556–1714) and later by the Austrian Habsburgs (Austrian Netherlands, 1714–1794) until occupied and annexed by Revolutionary France (1794–1815). Great Council of Mechelen and Southern Netherlands are early modern history of Luxembourg and Habsburg Netherlands.

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State Archives (Belgium)

The State Archives (Archives de l'État or AE, Rijksarchief) is the institution which preserves the national archives of Belgium.

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Supreme court

In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts.

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Tournai

Tournai or Tournay (Doornik; Tornai; Tornè; Tornacum) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Province of Hainaut, Belgium.

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Upper Guelders

Upper Guelders or Spanish Guelders was one of the four quarters in the Imperial Duchy of Guelders.

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Utrecht (province)

Utrecht, officially the Province of Utrecht (Provincie Utrecht), is a province of the Netherlands.

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Viglius

Viglius (October 19, 1507, SwichumMay 5, 1577) was the name taken by Wigle Aytta van Zwichem, a Dutch statesman and jurist, a Frisian by birth.

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See also

1470s in the Burgundian Netherlands

• Battle of Guinegate (1479)
• Duchy of Guelders
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Master of Margaret of York
• Master of the Vienna Chroniques d'Angleterre
• War of the Burgundian Succession

1794 disestablishments in the Habsburg monarchy

• Austrian Netherlands kronenthaler
• Boneffe Abbey
• Bonne-Espérance Abbey
• Council of Brabant
• Duchy of Brabant
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Imperial and Royal Academy of Brussels
• Liard (coin)
• St Anthony's College, Leuven

1794 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire

• Austrian Netherlands kronenthaler
• Boneffe Abbey
• Bonne-Espérance Abbey
• Council of Brabant
• Duchy of Brabant
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Imperial and Royal Academy of Brussels
• Karlsschule Stuttgart
• Liard (coin)
• St Anthony's College, Leuven

Buildings and structures in Mechelen

• Achter de Kazerne
• Brusselpoort
• Fish market of Mechelen
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Hof van Savoye
• Kazerne Dossin Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre
• Major Seminary, Mechelen
• Mechelen railway station
• Mechelen transit camp
• Mechelen-Nekkerspoel railway station
• Mechelen-Zuid water tower
• Oscar Vankesbeeck Stadion
• Planckendael
• Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn"
• Scheppersinstituut Mechelen

Councils

• Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
• Buddhist councils
• City councils
• Community council
• Consilium principis
• Consistorium
• Council
• Council for the Order of Australia
• Council of Aranda
• Council of Europe
• Council of state
• Departmental councils (France)
• Economic and Social Council (Dominican Republic)
• Economic and Social Council (Spain)
• Exovedate
• FA Council
• Grand Council (Mi'kmaq)
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Mar-a-Lago Crowd
• Military Council
• National Assessment and Accreditation Council
• National councils of the judiciary
• Saami Council
• School Council
• Student council
• Twelve Men
• University council
• Works council

Courts and councils in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands

• Council of Brabant
• Council of Flanders
• Council of Luxembourg
• Council of Troubles
• Court of Utrecht
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Hof van Holland
• Lord Chamberlain of the Archduchess
• Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands
• States General of the Netherlands
• States of Brabant

Courts and tribunals disestablished in 1794

• Council of Brabant
• Great Council of Mechelen

Courts and tribunals established in 1473

• Great Council of Mechelen

Disestablishments in the Austrian Netherlands

• Boneffe Abbey
• Bonne-Espérance Abbey
• Brussels Carmel
• Council of Brabant
• De Olijftak
• Duchy of Brabant
• Fort Knokke
• Ghendtsche Post-Tydinghen
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Mount Thabor Convent, Mechelen
• Pope's College, Leuven
• St Anthony's College, Leuven

Early modern history of Luxembourg

• Austrian Netherlands
• Council of Luxembourg
• Duchy of Luxembourg
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Luxembourg livre
• Seventeen Provinces
• Southern Netherlands
• Spanish Netherlands

Habsburg Netherlands

• Admiral of Flanders
• Flemish painting
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Habsburg Netherlands
• Martenastate
• Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands
• Renaissance in the Low Countries
• Seventeen Provinces
• Southern Netherlands
• Spanish Netherlands
• States General of the Netherlands
• Treaty of Senlis

History of Mechelen

• Christophe-Ernest, 1st Count of Baillet
• English Fury at Mechelen
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Jean Alphonse, 1st Count de Coloma
• Lordship of Mechelen
• Malines Conversations
• Mechelen transit camp
• Spanish Fury at Mechelen

Legal history of Belgium

• Council of Brabant
• Council of Flanders
• Council of Luxembourg
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Jan Coucke and Pieter Goethals
• Language legislation in Belgium
• Perpetual Edict (1611)
• Reyners v Belgium
• Special Forestry Platoon
• Willem Van der Tanerijen
• Wind rights
• Witch trials in the Spanish Netherlands

Legal history of the Netherlands

• Act of Abjuration
• Act of Guarantee
• Act of Seclusion
• Acte van Consulentschap
• Constitutional Reform of 1848
• Council of Brabant
• Court of Utrecht
• Great Council of Mechelen
• Great Privilege
• History of Dutch nationality
• Hof van Holland
• Island of Palmas Case
• Poenale sanctie
• Referendums in the Netherlands
• Roman-Dutch law
• Treaty of Asebu
• Treaty of Axim
• Treaty of Hanover (1725)
• Treaty of Senlis
• Van Binsbergen v Bestuur van de Bedrijfvereniging voor de Metaalnijverheid
• Willem Van der Tanerijen
• Wind rights
• Witch trials in the Netherlands

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Council_of_Mechelen

Also known as Grand Council of Mechelen, Parliament of Mechelen.

, Lordship of Mechelen, Luxembourgish, Mandate (criminal law), Mary of Burgundy, Master of Requests, Mechelen, Namur, Nicolaas Everaerts, Order of the Golden Fleece, Overijssel, Parlement of Paris, Philip the Handsome, Privilege (law), Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands, Regensburg, Roermond, Rombout II Keldermans, Schepenhuis, Mechelen, Seventeen Provinces, Snoy, Southern Netherlands, State Archives (Belgium), Supreme court, Tournai, Upper Guelders, Utrecht (province), Viglius.