Guillaume de Croÿ

Guillaume of Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres (so known like: William de Croÿ, sior of Chièvres in English; Guillermo de Croÿ, señor of Chièvres , Xevres or Spanish Xebres in ; Willem van Croÿ, heer van Chièvres in Dutch), last Duke of Sora and Arce, baron of Roccacitta (all 3 in the Kingdom of Naples), first Count of Beaumont, first Marquis of Aerschot, Lord of Temse, born in 1458, of an old house of Picardy. Member of the Family of Croÿ.

Biography

Wire junior by the lord of Ærschot Philippe de Croÿ and Jacobée of Luxembourg, Guillaume de Croÿ married Marie-madeleine de Hamal, the widow of Adolphe of Marck, wire of Jean D' Arenberg, count of Marck and brother of Robert I of Marck. He repurchased with his father the seigniories of Beaumont and Chièvres in 1485. In 1489, it belonged to the negotiators who tried to convince the prince Philippe de Clèves to put a term at his rebellion against Maximilien of Austria. He was elected knight of the Golden Fleece in 1491 and united at the court of Philippe the Beautiful in 1494, but was not voyage in Spain of 1501-03. Large-Baillif de Hainaut (1497-1503) then Stathouder of Namur (1503), it formed part, with dead of prince Philippe in 1506, the council of regency, in load more especially of finances and the army of the Spanish Netherlands. The emperor Maximilien confirmed it at this station in 1510.

It made with distinction the wars of Italy under Charles VIII and Louis XII, then passed to the service of the Austria and replaced the prince of Chimay Charles de Croÿ as a tutor of the infant Charles. When this one became king d' Espagne, it chooses it to belong to the first council of empire in 1515. In reward of its services, Charles Quint entrusted to him into 1516 the strongholds of Sora, Arce and Rocca Guglielma, then raised the ground of Beaumont in county, that of Ærschot (that Guillaume had inherited his father in 1511) in margraviat between 1517 and 1519. Guillaume de Croÿ moreover was named Admiral of the Kingdom of Naples and Lord High Admiral of the provinces (in 1516), and finally Grand Treasurer of Spain ( contador mayor ) (1517).

Guillaume de Croÿ pushed Charles of Spain to be introduced to the elections of emperor of Germany in 1519. Its incapacity and its depredations excited a revolt with Valladolid, 1520. It failed moreover to dissuade Charles Quint to declare the war in France, the death of its French counterpart Artus Gouffier de Boissy putting a term at the peace talks. It took share with the Diet of Worms (1521), where it was in hillock with violences of Martin Luther and his partisans, and where it died poisoned, the May 28th 1521.

Its Vie was written by Antoine Varillas, 1684, under this title: Practice of the education of the Princes, or History of Guillaume de Croy .

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