The Estates General of 1632 was a parliamentary assembly of representatives of the constituent provinces of the

Habsburg Netherlands Habsburg Netherlands were the parts of the Low Countries that were ruled by sovereigns of the Holy Roman Empire's House of Habsburg. This rule began in 1482 and ended for the Northern Netherlands in 1581 and for the Southern Netherlands in 1797. ...

. It was the last such assembly.

Crisis

It had been over thirty years since a gathering of the Estates General had been convened by the Habsburg rulers in the Low Countries. In a situation of deep political crisis, the Governor-General, Infanta

Isabella Clara Eugenia Isabella Clara Eugenia (; 12 August 1566 – 1 December 1633), sometimes referred to as Clara Isabella Eugenia, was sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, which comprised the Low Countries and the north of modern France, with her husband Albert ...

, called the Estates General to rally the political elites to the Habsburg cause. The letters convoking the assembly were sent on 30 July, with the date for the opening set as 7 September. The assembly was dissolved on 5 July 1634.

Delegates

The delegates attending were as follows. Louis Prosper Gachard, ''Actes des États Généraux de 1632'' (Brussels, 1853), pp. 63–67.

References

{{Reflist Historical legislatures in Belgium 17th-century elections in Europe 1632 in politics 1632 in the Habsburg Netherlands