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Events in the year 1630 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).

Incumbents

Habsburg Netherlands

Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.

Governor General – Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria

Events

• March – Peter Paul Rubens concludes a secret diplomatic mission to London.
• 20 April – Officials of the County of Flanders mandated to conserve and repair the coastal dunes, prohibiting hunting or the grazing of lifestock in them.
• 15 November – Conclusion of the Treaty of Madrid, ending the Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630)

Publications

• Antonio Abbondanti, La Giuditta e le rime sacre, morali, e varie (Liège, Jean Ouwerx), dedicated to Pierluigi Carafa
• Adrien de Fléron, Promulsis Elogii Tilliani (Liège, Jean Ouwercx).
• Aubertus Miraeus, Notitia ecclesiarum Belgii (Antwerp, Joannes Cnobbaert), dedicated to Philip IV of Spain
• Erycius Puteanus, De begginarum (Leuven, Cornelis Coensteyn)
• Cornelius Thielmans, Seraphische historie van het leven der heyligen des oordens S. Francisci van Assysien (Leuven, Cornelis Coensteyn)

Art and architecture

Paintings

• Gaspar de Crayer
  • Portrait of Ferdinand de Spoelberch
  • Portrait of Anna de Grimaldi
• Anthony van Dyck
  • Madonna and Child with Two Donors
  • The Mocking of Christ
  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt
  • Samson and Delilah
  • The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph
• Peter Paul Rubens
  • Cimon and Pero
  • Minerva Protecting Peace from Mars

Births

• 22 February – Jean-Baptiste Christyn, councillor (died 1690)
• 26 November – Jean Herman Voeller, secretary of state (died 1710)

Date uncertain

•  Louis Philip of Egmont, nobleman (died 1682)
• Jacques-Théodore de Bryas, clergyman (died 1694)

Deaths

• 24 January – Antoine de Balinghem (born 1571), Jesuit writer
• 3 March – William Stanley (born 1548), military commander
• 12 May – Joanna de Hertoghe (born c. 1566), Cistercian abbess
• 25 May – Géry de Ghersem (born 1573/75), musician
• 25 July (burial) – Jan Tilens (born 1589), painter
• 17 August – Lodewijk Makeblijde (born 1565), Jesuit poet
• 27 August – Hendrick de Clerck (born c. 1560), painter
• 25 September – Ambrogio Spinola (born 1569), military commander
• 9 October – Engelbert Maes (born 1545), councillor
• 5 November – Charles Malapert (born 1581), Jesuit astronomer

References

1. Placaeten ende Ordonnantien raeckende de bewaerenesse vande Zee-duynen (Bruges, Guilliame de Neve).
2. La Giuditta on Google Books.
3. Notitia ecclesiarum Belgii on Google Books.
4. De begginarum on Google Books.
5. Seraphische historie on Google Books.
6. ^ The Spoelberch Collection (1995), pp. 10-11.

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