Charles 1er de Lalaing, comte de Lalaing, chevalier de la Toison d'Or

Notes
Baron de Lalaing, chevalier de la Toison d'Or, créé comte de Lalaing par Charles V en 1522. Héritier de Jacqueline, sa cousine germaine. Gouverneur d'Audenarde en 1508. Grand bailli d'Audenaerde le 24 janvier 1503.
Available Sources : F Brassart, 1879, L de Herckenrode, 1865, Chanoine de Joigny, 1935, FV Goethals, 1862, C Butkens, 1724, de Vegiano, 1779, de Bar, 1780, PA Beaucourt de Noortvelde, 1773, de Saint-Genois, 1781, de Herckenrode, 1844, de Saint Genois, et al., 1848.
Death
Autre date de décès: 17 juillet 1525. Source : de Saint Genois, et al., 1848.
Birth:
- L de Herckenrode, 1868.
- F Brasssart, 1879.
- J de Saint Genois, et al., 184
Spouse: F Brasssart, 1879.
Death:
- L de Herckenrode, 1868.
- L van Lerberghe, 1845.
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Charles 1er de Lalaing ° ~1466 (Lille) + 18/07/1525 (Oudenarde) (inh. à l’Abbaye des Prés àDouai)
- seigneur (1498, à la mort de son cousin Jean),
- baron (érection en 1508, en baronnie-pairie du Hainaut, par incorporation des terres de Quévy-Le-Petit, Escaillon et Bruille, finalisée en 1511) puis
- comte de Lalaing (création, par lettres, 1522),
- seigneur d’Escornaix (1503), Bracle et Saint-Aubin, Doyen des Pairs de Hainaut (1509),
- chevalier de la Toison d’Or (121°, 1505),
- conseiller & Chambellan de l’Empereur Maximilien 1er, de Philippe «Le Beau»,
- Roi de Castille, puis de Charles Quint,
- Gouverneur (1508),
- Capitaine & Grand-Bailli d’Audenarde (1504-1507)

ép.~1494 Jacqueline de Luxembourg-Fiennes (fille aînée de Jacques 1er, seigneur de Fiennes, Sottenghien et Arquinghem, chevalier de la Toison d’Or, Gouverneur de Douai, et de Marie de Berlaymont, dame de Ville, La Hamaide, Pomereul, Hauterange et Vasières)

Pattou, Etienne. “Famille & Seigneurs De Lalaing.” Racines et Histoire
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CHARLES I de Lalaing

Baron (by crection of the year 1508) then count of Lalaing (by creation of the year 1522), doyen of the peers of Hainaut, knight of the Golden Fleece in 1505, governor of Audenarde in 1508, married around 1494 to Jacqueline DE LUXEMBOURG-Fiennes, died at the castle of Audenarde in 1525; he lies in Douai, in the abbey of the Pres; his splendid tomb is preserved in the Museum of our city.

Lallaing, le château-Albums de Croy

Born around 1466 in Lille, he took possession of his ancestors' land in 1498, after the death of his cousin Jean, and took great care of his domain and his "subjects" of Lalaing. Preparing for the future dignity of his seigneury and in order to make it more considerable, the "baron" of Lalaing (a title that he already attributed to himself before), obtained, in 1508, the erection of his land in barony pairie of Hainaut, with incorporation of the land of Quévy-le-Petit, as well as those of Escaillon and Bruille, in 1511, to hold the whole "in only one fief" of pairie (Preuves, n°s XX and XXI). Here are the names of his children:

1° François de Lalaing, who died young, is buried in Deynze, in front of the tomb of Simon, his great-grandfather, under a stone decorated with coats of arms, and on which he is described as "second child and eldest son of Sir Charles, Count of Lalaing" (Goethals, Miroir, II, page 514).

It is to him and to his brother Jacques that Luxembourg the herald dedicates in 1509 "The Blazon of the arms of Lalaing,"

2° Jacques de Lalaing, lord of Escornaix (and eldest son, in 1517), "captain" (military governor) of Oudenaarde, chamberlain of Charles V, "who passed on his way back from the siege of Maisiere", on October 30, 1521; lies in the convent of Beaumont in Valenciennes.

3° Charles, who follows.

4° Philippe de Lalaing, author of the branch of Hoochstrate, who will follow.

5° Marguerite de Lalaing, born in Oudenaarde around September 1508, died in 1602, married to Evrard, knight, lord of PALLANT; whose posterity and notably the counts of Culembourg.

6° Anne de Lalaing, canoness of Mons (in 1515), wife of Josse, count DE MONTFORT; of which posterity.

Brassart, Felix, Société Académique, editor. Souvenirs De La Flandre Wallonne, Catalogue des Nobels de Nom, de Lalaing, Dix-Septieme, L. Crépin, 1882. un Comite Historique et Archeologique: Memories of Walloon Flanders: pp. 67-68.
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CHARLES de Lalaing ([1466]-Oudenaarde 17 Jul 1525, bur Douai, l’église des Dames de l’Abbaye-des-Prés). He succeeded his cousin Jean in 1498 as Seigneur de Lalaing. In a charter dated 15 Dec 1515, “Charles baron de Lalaing d’Escorany, pers de Haynaut, seigneur Descussigniz, chevalier de lordre de la Thoison dOr...” ratified obits at the church of Lalaing in memory of “son feu...pere Monseigneur Josse signeur de Lalaing en son temps gouverneur de Hollande...” who died 5 Aug 1483 “au siege devant la cite dUtrecq et son corps enterre au cloistre Dainze en Flandre” and “Bonne de la Viefville son espeuse” who died 2 Mar 1503, and for “Jacqueline de Luxembourg son espeuse”[537]. Baron de Lalaing 1508. Comte de Lalaing 1522. An epitaph at l’église des Dames de l’Abbaye-des-Prés records the burial of “Charles comte de Lalaing baron d’Escornaix, seigneur de Brakele de saint Aulbin en Douai” who married “Jacqueline de Luxembourg...” and died 17 Jul 1525 “audit chasteau d’Audenarde”, and includes some brief biographical details[538].

m (before 1494) JACQUELINE de Luxembourg Dame de Ville, daughter of JACQUES de Luxembourg Seigneur de Fiennes et de Gavre & his wife Marie de Berlaimont Dame de Ville, de la Hamaide et de Vasières (-after 1515). In a charter dated 15 Dec 1515, [her husband] “Charles baron de Lalaing d’Escorany...” ratified obits at Lalaing for “Jacqueline de Luxembourg son espeuse”[539]. Charles & his wife had children:

i) JACQUES de Lalaing (-30 Oct 1521, bur Beaumont, Valenciennes). “Charles baron de Lalaing...” granted property at Valenciennes to “Jacques de Lallaing seigneur Descornetz son fil aisne” by charter dated 1 Jul 1518[540]. An epitaph at l’église des Dames de Beaumont, Valenciennes records the burial of “Jacques fils aîné de Charles de Lalaing seigneur d’Ecornaix capitaine d’Audenarde...” who died 30 Oct 1521 “en revenant du siège de Maisiere”[541].

ii) CHARLES de Lalaing ([1506]-Brussels 21 Nov 1558, bur Lalaing). Comte de Lalaing.
- see below.

iii) MARGUERITE de Lalaing (Oudenaarde Sep 1508-1602). The Catalogue des Lalaing records her parentage and marriage[542]. m EVRARD Seigneur de Pallant, son of ---.

iv) PHILIPPE de Lalaing (-30 Jun 1555, bur Hoogstraten). “Philippe van Lalaing baron van Schorisse” confirmed receiving property from “Anthonyse van Lalaing ridder...grave van Hooghstraeten heere van Montigny, van Culemborch, Borsele ende van vrouwe Elizabeth van Culembourg gravine van Hooghstraten zyne...geselline” by charter dated 6 Aug 1534[543].
- see below, GRAVEN van HOOGSTRATEN.

v) ANNE de Lalaing . The Catalogue des Lalaing records her parentage and marriage[544]. m JOSSE Comte de Montfort, son of ---.

Cawley, Charles. “NORTHERN FRANCE-CAMBRAI, DOUAI, VALENCIENNES.” Medieval Lands, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 24 Mar. 2022, https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfracado.htm''
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In 1508, Philip the Handsome appointed a grandson of the knight Simon Charles de Lalaing, baron of Escornaix, son of Josse, to the military government of the city and castle of Oudenaarde, adding the office of high bailiff of the castellany.
However, Charles was content to be only the holder of this office and let it be occupied, with the consent of the prince, by another person, also bearing the title of high bailiff. In 1505 he received the collar of the Golden Fleece, and in 1522 Charles V made the land and seigneury of Lalaing a county in his favor.

He was married to Jacqueline d'Luxembourg, daughter of Jacques, knight of the order, baron of Gavre, lord of Fiennes and Sotteghem. We believe that Jacqueline was born in Oudenaarde, in the hotel occupied by this noble family, which for a long time afterward still bore the name of Hotel de Luxembourg.

Count Charles de Lalaing died at the castle of which he had been captain on July 17, 1525, at the age of 59.

Old, antique panoramic view of Oudenaarde, by Matthäus Merian & Martin Zeiller c.1659 from M. Merian & M. Zeiller, Topographia Germaniae Inferioris. Frankfurt, 1659.

His body was transferred to the Abbey of Les Prés, a women's monastery near Douai, where a superb monument was erected in his memory (5).

His son Philip succeeded him as captain-governor of the city and castle of Oudenaarde, by letters of 31 January 1525 (1526 n.s.). When he was a young man, he continued to reside near his mother, in the castle of Burgundy; but, since his marriage to Anne, heiress of Count William of Rennebourg, he occupied the hotel of Luxembourg, located nearby.

The dowager of Charles de Lalaing died at Audenarde, in 1544. It is likely that she was buried in a church in that city.

(5) See BRASSART, I.c., which gives some details about the life of this governor, as well as his epitaph, p. 31-33.

Vander Meersch, Désiré-Josephh. Notice Historique & Généalogique Sur La Vicomté D'Audenarde. Léonard Hebbelynck, 1848. pp. 429-460