Charles de Croÿ explained

Charles de Croÿ
Bishop Of:Bishop of Tournai
Enthroned:1524
Ended:1564
Predecessor:Louis Guillard
Successor:Guibert D'Ongnies
Birth Date:1506
Death Date:11 December

Charles de Croÿ Prince of Chimay (Dutch; Flemish: Karel van Croij; 1506 – 11 December 1564) was a bishop of the See of Tournai in present-day Belgium from 1524 until 1564.

Charles was born in 1506 as a member of the House of Croÿ. He was a nephew of William de Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres (1458–1521) and a brother of William de Croÿ, Archbishop of Toledo (1498–1521). He matriculated at the University of Louvain in 1523. Among Charles' teachers were Adrianus Barlandus, Jacobus Latomus, and Johannes Driedo.

A biography of Pierre Cotrel, vicar-general of the Diocese of Tournai from 1497 to 1545, mentions Charles,[1] as do materials describing a château he built in the village of Moorsel in 1546.[2] He was Abbot of Affligem Abbey between 1521–1564.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bietenholz, Peter G. . Thomas Brian Deutscher . Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation . 1 . University of Toronto Press . 1987 . 348–349 . 0-8020-2507-2.
  2. Web site: Moorsel. Heemkundige Kring De Faluintjes. 30 December 2007. nl. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122907/http://users.pandora.be/a114539/Moorsel/Moorsel.htm. 29 September 2007.