Franciscus van der Burch
Franciscus van der Burch | |
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Archbishop-Duke of Cambrai | |
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Diocese | Cambrai |
See | Notre Dame de Cambrai |
Installed | 12 May 1616 |
Term ended | 23 May 1644 |
Predecessor | François Buisseret |
Successor | Joseph de Bergaigne |
Other post(s) | Bishop of Ghent (1612-1616) |
Orders | |
Consecration | 17 February 1613 |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | 23 May 1644 Mons, County of Hainaut, Habsburg Netherlands | (aged 76)
Alma mater | Leuven University |
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Franciscus van der Burch (1567–1644) was a bishop of Ghent and archbishop of Cambrai.
Life
[edit]Franciscus was born in Ghent on 26 July 1567, the son of Jan van der Burch, a member of the Council of Flanders, and Camille Marguerite Diacetto, a native of Florence.[1] His father would go on to become president of the Great Council of Mechelen in 1584 and of the Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands in 1592.[2]
Franciscus was educated partly in Utrecht, where his uncle Lambert van der Burch was dean of the chapter of St. Mary's Church,[3] and partly at the Jesuit college in Douai, before going on to study at Leuven University, where he graduated Licentiate of Laws.[1]
He became a clergyman and was appointed a canon of Arras Cathedral, vicar general of the diocese of Arras, and archdeacon of the archdiocese of Mechelen.[4] He resigned these offices to become a simple canon of the collegiate church in Mons.
In 1612 he accepted nomination as bishop of Ghent, receiving papal confirmation on 1 October 1612 and being consecrated bishop in Ghent Cathedral on 17 February 1613.[1] On 12 May 1616 he was instituted as archbishop of Cambrai, in succession to François Buisseret who had died in 1615. As archbishop he established a number of charitable foundations. The most important of these was the Maison de Sainte-Agnès, or Fondation Vanderburch, established in 1626,[5] which provided vocational education for poor girls between the ages of 12 and 18.[4]
He died in Mons on 23 May 1644.[4] Two streets in Cambrai were named after him.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Emmanuel Hellin, Histoire Chronologique des Evêques, et du Chapitre Exemt de l'Eglise Cathédrale de S. Bavon à Gand, vol. 1 (Ghent, 1772), pp. 33-34.
- ^ General Guillaume, "Burch (Jean Vander)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, 1872), 160-161.
- ^ General Guillaume, "Burch (Lambert Vander)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, 1872), 161-162.
- ^ a b c d General Guillaume, "Burch (François-Henri van der)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, 1872), 162-164.
- ^ "Fondation Vanderburch". tourisme-cambresis.fr (in French). Office de tourisme du Cambrésis.