Frederic de Mérode

See also: Mérode

The Count Frederic de Merode (born with Maastricht on June 9th, 1792, died with Malignant on November 4th, 1830) is a volunteer of the Belgian Révolution, brother of Felix de Merode member of the Provisional government.

Engaged as of September 1830 in the middle-class guard that it contributes to finance it leaves Brussels mid-October with the troop of Charles Niellon to the attack of the Dutch positions. Seriously wounded on October 25th with the battle of Berchem, close to Antwerp he dies ten days later.

First member of the Belgian nobility victim of the engagements it is regarded as a national hero by the new authorities. A white marble mausoleum, works of the sculptor Guillaume Geefs who represents it wounded is high for him in one of the side chapels of the Cathédrale Saint-Michel-and-Gudule.

In 1898 one inaugurates a monument with his memory set up at the southern part of the Place of the Martyrs in Brussels, carrying the inscription: “Frederic de Merode died for the independence of the fatherland”. The stele drawn by Henry van of Velde and of which the volutes are characteristic of the Art nouveau comprises a portrait of profile of Frederic de Merode in medallion and a statue which represents a volunteer vêtu distinctive blouse all two carved by Paul Of Wood.

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