Lancelot II Schetz

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Lancelot II Schetz , 2nd Count of Grobbendonk, baron of Wezemaal, lord of Durbuy, Tilburg, etc., was a Netherlandish nobleman and a military commander during the later stages of the Eighty Years' War.

Schetz was the eldest son and heir of the celebrated commander Anthonie Schetz. In 1638 he held the rank of colonel and was military governor of Saint-Omer when the town was besieged by the French. [1]

Lancelot inherited his father's titles as count of Grobbendonk and baron of Wezemaal in 1641, and his mother's title to the lordship of Tilburg in 1650. He was lord of Durbuy through his marriage to Marguerite-Claire de Noyelles. [2]

He would later become governor of the Duchy of Limburg. He died in 1664.

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References

  1. Mémoires de la Société d'émulation d'Abbeville, vol. 18 (1893), p. 333.
  2. Jean-Charles-Joseph de Vegiano, Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du Comté de Bourgogne, vol. 4 (Ghent, 1870), p. 1745.
  3. La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et ...
Lancelot II Schetz
 Died: 1664
Preceded by Hereditary Marshall of Brabant
1641–1664
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Jan van Wiltz
Governor of Limburg
1649–1664
Succeeded by
Belgian nobility
Preceded by 2nd Count of Grobbendoncq
1641–1664
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Marie of Malsen
Lord of Tilburg
1660–1664
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Hugues, 1st Count of Noyelles
Lord of Durbuy
–1664
Succeeded by