Anthonie Schetz (1564,

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- 1640 or 1641,

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), was a

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military commander in

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service during the

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. He was baron (and from 1637 count) of

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, lord of

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and

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, Pulle, and Pulderbos, and

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. He was the military governor of

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until the town was lost to the Dutch in 1629, captain of a cavalry regiment, and a knight of the

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Life

Early life

The youngest son of

Gaspard II Schetz Gaspar Schetz (1513–1580), Lord of Grobbendonk, Hereditary Marshal of Brabant was a financier and statesman in the Habsburg Netherlands. For reasons that are unknown he was nicknamed "Corvinus". Life Gaspar Schetz was born in Antwerp on 20 July ...

and Catharina d'Ursel, of the noble

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, and the younger brother of

Conrad III Schetz Conrad (or Coenraad) Schetz de Grobbendonck, later Conrad d'Ursel (1553–1632) was a nobleman in the Habsburg Netherlands and in 1604–1609 the first ordinary ambassador to England for the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. Ursel family The 5th so ...

, Anthonie was baptised in Antwerp in August 1564. His parents had 21 children in total, eight of whom survived to adulthood. His father was from the Schetzenbergh family, a German patrician family from

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, and was the chief banker in Antwerp, financing several merchants who traded to Russia and Brazil, including his own brothers Melchior and Balthazar. Gaspar was also banker to

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, giving him a political role and making him a leading figure in the Antwerp of the second half of the 16th century. In 1637 Baron Schetz was created 1st Count of Grobbendonck.

Marriages

In 1582 Anthonie married Barbara Karremans and after her early and childless death in 1604 he remarried to Maria van Malsen, daughter of Hubert van Malsen and heiress of Tilburg, a lordship in Goirle that through her father Hubert had been made

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by paying the asking price of 8,000 guilders to outbid a previous lord from the related Van Haestrecht family – a century earlier it had been loaned to

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. This marriage made Antonie lord of Tilburg and Goirlie and after 1629, when 's-Hertogenbosch was handed over to the

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, Schetz recognised the Republic as their owner and overlord. Schetz and his second wife had seven children:Jean-Charles-Joseph de Vegiano, ''Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du Comté de Bourgogne'', vol. 4 (Ghent, 1870), p. 1745. #

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, 2nd Count of Grobbendonck, and later governor of Limburg, who would marry Marguerite-Claire de Noyelles #Marie-Florence, who would marry Charles de Cottrel, Baron of Bois-de-Lessine #Agnes-Robertine, who would marry Jacques de Cottrel, Baron of Bois-de-Lessine, younger brother of her sister's husband Charles #Charlotte, who would marry Frederick de Gulpen, lord of Waudemont #Jeanne-Marie, who would marry Alard-Florent de Ruville, hereditary marshal of Luxemburg #Godefroid # Isabelle-Claire-Eugénie Schetz (died 1709), who would become abbess of

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Ignace Schetz de Grobbendonk Ignacius Augustinus Schetz de Grobbendonk (1625–1680) was the 9th Bishop of Namur and the 11th Bishop of Ghent. Life Schetz de Grobbendonck was a son of Anthonie II Schetz and his second wife Maria van Malsen, lady of Tilburg. After graduating ...

(1625—1680), 11th Bishop of Ghent

's-Hertogenbosch

As a Catholic, Schetz joined the Catholic side and by 1589 was governor of 's-Hertogenbosch. Under his leadership the city fought off two attempts at capture by

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, in

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and 1603.

Leuven

He is best remembered for his command of the Spanish army's successful defence of Leuven against a Franco-Dutch siege in 1635.

Ancestors

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schetz, Anthonie 1564 births 1641 deaths Military personnel from the Netherlands in the Spanish army during the Eighty Years' War Ursel family Military personnel from Antwerp Belgian barons Military personnel of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)