Pieter Roose (1585 or 1586 – 27 February 1673), lord of Froidmont, Han and Jemeppe, was president of the Privy Council from 1632 to 1653, and a key actor in the government 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. ...

for over twenty years.

Career

He was born in Antwerp as the son of Johan (or Jan) Roose and Maria van Kinschot. His brother, also called Jan Roose, would later be a mayor of Antwerp. After studying civil law at

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, Roose started a legal practice in

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. On 18 March 1616 he was appointed advocate fiscal of the

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. On 8 May 1622 he became a member and master of requests of the Privy Council. In 1624, when the customs of the city of

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were being codified, he was deputized by the Privy Council to safeguard the rights of the prince in the resulting publication. In 1627 he was sent to the

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to troubleshoot corruption in the county's salt works. In 1628 Roose was sent to Spain, where

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appointed him a councillor of state on 14 January 1630, and in December of the same year a member of the

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. In 1632 Roose returned to Brussels to replace Engelbert Maes as president of the Privy Council. He effectively became civilian head of government in Brussels, despite the rivalry for preeminence with

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Downfall

Roose was a close friend of

Cornelius Jansen Cornelius Jansen (; ; Latinized name Cornelius Jansenius; also Corneille Jansen; 28 October 1585 – 6 May 1638) was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism. Biography He ...

. After Pope

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condemned Jansen's work ''Augustinus'' (1640), Roose opposed publication of the papal bull in the Habsburg Netherlands. This contributed to his fall from favour under

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(governor general 1647–1656). In 1649 he was sent to Regensburg to congratulate

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on his son's election as King of the Romans. He was replaced as president of the Privy Council by

Charles de Hovyne Charles de Hovyne (1596–1671), lord of Gouvernies, Granbray, Winckel, Steenkercke, etc., was president of the Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1653 to 1671, and a key participant in and commentator upon the government of the Habsb ...

on 23 December 1653. Roose died on 27 February 1673 and was buried on 14 March in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament of the Miracle of the Church of St. Michael and St. Gudula (now Brussels' cathedral).

Career

Downfall

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