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unusual facts about List of Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands



Count Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau

Count Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau, (Vienna, June 8, 1696 – Vienna, June 4, 1749), was plenipotentiary minister of the Austrian Netherlands (1732–1741) and became Governor-General ad interim in 1741–1744.

Gio Paolo Bombarda

When Maximilian became governor of the Spanish Netherlands in 1692, Bombarda went with him to Brussels and became his emissary to the French and Dutch bankers.

Siege of Doullens

In the Low Countries, after the death of the Archduke Ernest of Austria at Brussels on Frebuary 20 of 1595, Don Pedro Henríquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes, became Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, until the arrival of Albert, sent by Philip II of Spain to Brussels to succeed his elder brother.


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