Louis Philip of Egmont (Brussels, 1630 - Cagliari, 7 March 1682) was 9th Count of Egmont, 6th Prince of Gavere and Lord of Zottegem.
Louis Philip of Egmont (Brussels, 1630 - Cagliari, 7 March 1682) was 9th Count of Egmont, 6th Prince of Gavere and Lord of Zottegem.
Louis Philip was the son of Louis, 8th Count of Egmont and Maria Margaretha of Berlaymont.
In 1670 he was appointed Knight of the Golden Fleece by Charles II of Spain. He was Captain General of the Cavalry and Extraordinary Spanish Ambassador in England (1678-1679). Between 1679 and 1682 he was Viceroy of Sardinia. At the start of his reign, the island suffered from a lack of food and resources. Despite his efforts, he was not able to improve the situation.
The Count of Egmont died in March 1682, after a long illness, leaving Sardinia as oppressed by hunger as at the beginning. He was replaced in the position of Viceroy by Fray Diego Ventura Fernández, Archbishop of Cagliari.
He was succeeded as Count of Egmont and Lord of Gavere by his son Louis Ernest of Egmont. [1]
On 4 August 1659 he married Maria Ferdinanda van Croÿ, daughter of Charles Philippe de Croÿ, IV marquis de Renty. From this marriage 4 children were born :
Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere was a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising that eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands.
James II, called the Just, was the King of Aragon and Valencia and Count of Barcelona from 1291 to 1327. He was also the King of Sicily from 1285 to 1295 and the King of Majorca from 1291 to 1298. From 1297 he was nominally the King of Sardinia and Corsica, but he only acquired the island of Sardinia by conquest in 1324. His full title for the last three decades of his reign was "James, by the grace of God, king of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica, and count of Barcelona".
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