Corneille of Berghes or de Glymes-Berghes (1490?–1560?) was
Prince-bishop of Liège
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between 1538 and 1544.
Corneille of Berghes was the youngest son of
Cornelis of Glymes
Cornelis of Glymes or Cornelis of Bergen (1 April 1458 – 1508/1509) was an Admiral of the Netherlands.
He was born in Wouw, the second son of John II of Glymes (1417–1494), Lord of Bergen op Zoom, and his wife Margaretha of Rouveroy. His elde ...
,
Admiral of the Netherlands
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and Maria Margaretha van Zevenbergen. First he was
Prévôt
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in the Saint Peter's
Collegiate church
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in Lille, then he stayed in Mechelen at the court of
Margaret of Austria. In 1520 he became
Coadjutor bishop
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The coa ...
in Liège, and when Prince-Bishop
Érard de La Marck died in 1538, was made his successor by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
His reign was a disaster, because of his fanatic persecution of presumed heretics, which alienated himself from the population. He resigned in 1544 to get married. Very little was registered about the rest of his life and marriage, only that he died around 1560.
Sources
* Joseph Daris, Histoire du diocèse et de la principauté de Liège pendant le XVIe siècle, Liège, Louis Demarteau, 1884, 698 p. « La principauté et le diocèse sous Corneille de Berghes », p. 123-142
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1560 deaths
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire
Prince-bishops of Liège
Glymes family
Year of birth uncertain