Jean-Baptiste Gramaye was an early modern historian of the Southern Netherlands. He studied law and became a professor at Leuven University. Later he was employed as court historian by Albert VII, Archduke of Austria. For five months in 1619 he was a prisoner in Barbary, an experience that changed the focus of his scholarship from the Low Countries to Africa.
Pieter Roose, lord of Froidmont, Han and Jemeppe, was president of the Privy Council from 1632 to 1653, and a key actor in the government of the Habsburg Netherlands for over twenty years.
Emanuel Sueyro (1587–1629), Lord of Voorde, Knight of Christ, was an intelligence agent and historian in the 17th-century Habsburg Netherlands.
Charles de Hovyne (1596–1671), lord of Gouvernies, Granbray, Winckel, Steenkercke, etc., was president of the Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1653 to 1671, and a key participant in and commentator upon the government of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Jean François Foppens, sometimes Latinized Johannes Franciscus Foppens (1689–1761), was a Belgian ecclesiastical historian, and literary biographer and bibliographer. He is best known for his Bibliotheca belgica, sive virorum in Belgio vita scriptisque illustrium catalogus, a catalogue of Belgian authors and their works.
Jacobus Zegers was an academic printer and bookseller in Leuven, with many clients among the faculty of Leuven University. He was the printer of Cornelius Jansen's Augustinus (1640).
Adrianus or Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627) was a writer and translator from Antwerp.
Jean Sarazin, Latinized Joannes Saracenus (1539–1598) was an abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast, Arras, and the third archbishop of Cambrai.
Johannes Malderus (1563–1633) was the fifth bishop of Antwerp and the founder of Malderus College at the University of Leuven.
Adrianus Todeschinus (1471–1546) was captain of the papal guard under six consecutive popes.
Philip Rubens, was a Flemish antiquarian, librarian, philologist and city administrator from the Habsburg Netherlands. He was the older brother of the prominent Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens.
François-Hyacinthe Choquet was a Dominican hagiographer and spiritual author in the Spanish Netherlands.
Events in the year 1899 in Belgium.
Balthazar Ayala (1548–1584) was a military judge in the Habsburg Netherlands during the opening decades of the Eighty Years' War who wrote an influential treatise on the law of war.
Pierre Kersten (1789–1865) was a Belgian journalist and publisher, active in Liège from 1821 until his death.
Balthasar or Balthazar Bellerus or Bellère was a printer first at Antwerp and later at Douai in the Habsburg Netherlands. He was a son of the reputable Antwerp printer Joannes Bellerus, and set up a printing shop of his own in the Rue des Ecoles in Douai in 1590, becoming a colleague and rival to Jan Bogard. The motto that appeared on his printer's mark was Labore ac perseverantiâ. His marks were the golden compass and a unicorn dipping its horn in a stream.
Philippus Nutius or Philips Nuyts (1543—1586) was a printer-bookseller in 16th-century Antwerp.
Philippus Nutius or Nuyts (1597—1661) was a 17th-century Flemish Jesuit.
Michel Routart (c.1580–1653) was a government official in the Spanish Monarchy of the 17th century, active in the Low Countries, Germany and Italy.
