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Thierry, Count of Limburg Stirum

{{Short description|Belgian historian and politician}}

Count Thierry de Limburg Stirum (11 April 1827 – 6 March 1911) was a Belgian historian, bibliophile, and politician who served as a Senator from 1878 to 1900.

Early life

Count Thierry Marie Joseph de Limburg Stirum was born in Antwerp, United Kingdom of the Netherlands on 11 April 1827. He was the son of Willem de Limburg Stirum (1795–1889) and Albertine de Pret de Calesberg (1800–1856). His father, who was of Dutch and Gelders origin, served in the French imperial army and later in the Dutch army after 1815. Following the creation of Belgium, Thierry received Belgian citizenship in 1841.

Career

Thierry de Limburg Stirum was Doctor in Law (KU Leuven) and Belgian senator for the department of Ostend-Veurne-Diksmuide from 1878 to 1900.{{cite book |last1=Queller |first1=Donald E. |title=Office of Ambassador |date=14 March 2017 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-8757-6 |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sKArDgAAQBAJ&dq=Count+Thierry+de+Limburg+Stirum+senator&pg=PA4 |access-date=23 September 2022 |language=en}}

He was president of the Conseil Heraldique and president of the Royal Commission for Ancient Laws and Ordinances.

A famous bibliophile,{{cite book |last1=Meconi |first1=Director of Medieval Studies Honey |last2=Meconi |first2=Honey |title=Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-816554-5 |page=50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfEVGb_D-ukC&pg=PA50 |access-date=23 September 2022 |language=en}} he became a member of the Society for History of Bruges in 1870, known under the name 'Société d'Emulation'. From 1891 until his death he was president of that Society.

Personal life

In 1856, he married Countess Marie-Thérèse de Thiennes Leyenburg et de Rumbeke (1828–1909), a daughter of Count François de Thiennes, Chamberlain of King Guillaume of the Netherlands and Baroness Asterie de Draeck. Before her death in Brussels in 1909, they were the parents of four children who had numerous descendants, including:

Count de Limburg-Stirum died in Brussels on 6 March 1911.Viscount TERLINDEN, Thierry de Limburg Stirum, in: Biographie nationale de Belgique, Tome XXXIII, 1965, col. 443-446.

Publications

  • Description des sceaux de quelques seigneurs de Flandres, Brugge, 1869
  • La Cour des Comtes de Flandre, leurs officiers héréditaires, Ghent, 1878.
  • Codex Diplomaticus Flandriae, 1296-1327, Brugge, 1879-1889.
  • Flandriae inde ab anno 1926 ad usque 1325 (...), Brugge, 1879.
  • Le Cartulaire de Louis de Male, comte de Flandre, Brugge, 1893–1901

Ancestry

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|+Thierry's ancestors in three generations

rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"| Thierry de Limburg Stirum

| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| Father:
Willem Bernard, Count of Limburg Stirum (1795-1889), settles in Belgium and takes Belgian nationality

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| Paternal Grandfather:
Samuel John, Count of Limburg Stirum (1754-1824), General-Major, Member of the 'Notabelenvergadering' (1814), Member of the Senate, Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Knight Grd Cross of the Military William Order

| style="text-align:center;"| Paternal Great-grandfather:
Albert Dominique, Count of Limburg Stirum

style="text-align:center;"| Paternal Great-grandmother:
Elisabeth Gratiana Sayer
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| rowspan="2"| Paternal Grandmother:
Johanna Sara, Jonkvrouw Reynst (1762-1837)

Paternal Great-grandfather:
Vice-Admiral Jonkheer Pieter Hendrik Reynst, Admiral of Holland and West-Friesland
style="text-align:center;"| Paternal Great-grandmother:
Johanna Sara Bicker
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| rowspan="4"| Mother:
Albertine de Pret Roose de Calesberg (1800-1856)

| rowspan="2"| Maternal Grandfather:
Jacques Paul Joseph de Pret Roose de Calesberg, Lord of Calesberg (1762-1817)

Maternal Great-grandfather:
Arnould François Joseph Bruno de Pret
style="text-align:center;"| Maternal Great-grandmother:
Marie Pétronille Moretus
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| rowspan="2"| Maternal Grandmother:
Jeanne Marie Josephe, Countess Roose de Baisy

Maternal Great-grandfather:
Jean Alexandre Joseph Roose, Count of Baisy and Baron of Bouchout (1724-1784)
style="text-align:center;"| Maternal Great-grandmother:
Marie Anne van de Werve (1742-1798)

References

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Category:19th-century Belgian historians

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