Jacques 1er de Lalaing, seigneur de La Mouillerie et de Maffle

Notes
- IRPA clichéM10781: Obiit en l'église Notre Dame à Zandbergen : Jacques Lalaing x Enghien + 30 juillet 1573. (Curator note: if this date is correct then we have an issue with the marriage date of Jacques second wife Anne du Chasteler recorded as 11/1574).
- Poplimont dit Jacques de Lalaing fils de Philippe et de Florence de Rechem, même mention dans Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du royaume de Belgique, Tome 3, p 624 F.V. Goethals, 1849

- Vicomte d'Audenarde,
- seigneur de la Mouillerie (Moillerie), Maffle, etc.,
- diplomate,
- colonel d'infanterie,
- bourgmestre d'Audenarde (1574-1575).
Sources : L de Herckenrode, 1868, J Le Roux, 1715, FV Goethals, 1862, R Goffin, 1974, C Butkens, 1726, Le Roux, 1784, FV Goethals, 1849, C Sars de Solmont, 1846.

Death
Plaque funéraire de Jacques de Lalaing en l'église Notre-Dame à Zandbergen. Photo IRPA M10780.
Autre date de décès: 4 mai 1579. FV Goethals, 1862. FV Goethals, 1850.

Marriage with Marie d'ENGHIEN - La date est celle du contrat de mariage.
Marriage with Anne Jeanne du CHASTELER - La date est celle du contrat de mariage.
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Jacques 1er de Lalaing + 04/05/1579 (Alost)
- écuyer,
- «vicomte» d’Audenarde,
- seigneur de La Mouillerie et de Maffle,
- Diplomate,
- colonel d’infanterie,
- Bourgmestre d’Audenarde (1574-1575) (brises ses armes Lalaing- Hoogstraeten d’un chevron de sable au dernier losange, et d’une plaine d’or)

ép. 1) 08/05/1554 (Zandbergen) Marie d’Enghien, dame de Santbergen, Bouclair et Rénegelst + 30/07/1573 (Armes : «Ecartelé : aux 1 & 4, gironné de sable & d’argent de dix pièces, celles de sable chargées chacune de trois croisettes d’or ; aux 2 & 3, d’argent, au croissant de gueules») (fille de Virgile, seigneur de Zandbergen, et d’Agnès van Berchem)

ép. 2) 11/1574 (Audenarde) Anne du Chasteler (veuve de Josse van der Meere)

Pattou, Etienne, Famille & Seigneurs de Lalaing, Racines et Histoire

Oudenaarde, Belgium; detail from Deventer_Map c. 1558
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Jacques de Lalaing, viscount of Audenarde, lord of Mouillerie, Maffles and Kerchove, was lieutenant commander of a legion or regiment of infantry in the service of Philip II. He had married Marie d'Enghien, heiress of Santberghe, daughter of Virgil and Agnes of Berchem, from whom he had nine children.

After the death of his wife in 1573, he married Anne de Chasteler, widow of Josse Van der Meere, lord of Voorde, Landeghem, etc. Their marriage contract was signed before the court of the city of Liège. Their marriage contract was signed before the college of aldermen of Oudenaarde on November 5, 1574. It does not appear that he had any children.

Jacques de Lalaing frequently lived in this city, where his second wife lived regularly. In 1560 he was the first member of the college of chiefs-tutors, and in 1574 and 1575 he was ordained burgomaster.

Famien Strada Histoire-Capture of Oudenaarde July 5,1582 (Its not said whether Jacques particiapted in this battle but it happened during his lifetime.) Siege and capture of Oudenaarde, 5 July 1582. In the foreground, the Duke of Parma sits at the table eating, miraculously unharmed after a gunshot kills his tablemates

He died in Aalst on May 4, 1587. On October 12 of that year, his widow, Anne de Chasteler, gave an inventory of the property left by her husband to the college of chiefs-tutors of Oudenaarde, to be divided among the children, according to local custom.

This document, preserved in the archives of the town hall, shows that of the nine children born of the first marriage of Jacques de Lalaing, only two were of age or older. We will list them according to the order followed in the above-mentioned inventory (12).

PHILIPPE, eldest son, successor to the seigneuries, of full age.
JEAN, monk professed at the abbey of St-Pierre-lez-Gand.

He (John) was excluded from the succession, because the custom of Oudenaarde ruled that all persons in religion are dead to the world, and consequently unable to inherit property.

CHARLES.
GASPAR. He became captain of the guards of the prince of Orange, governor of Utrecht, and was killed at the siege of Tournai in 1581. His wife was a young lady from Gesten (13).
LOUIS(14). He married Françoise Du Guesclin in France, from the house of Bertrand Du Guesclin, Constable of France, and had Pierre-Hyppolite de Lalaing, who became an alderman of the city of Brussels, after having been received into the seven privileged noble families.
Pierre-Hyppolite died in June 1634 (Le Roux).
FERRY, became captain in the regiment of the Duke of Parma. He died a bachelor.
JACQUES; he married Charlotte Hinckaert, lady of Ochain and Corbaix, daughter of Jean, knight, lord of the said places, grand-veneur of Brabant, from whom five children were born (V. BRASSAR, 1. c.).
SYMON, devoted himself to the military state, obtained the rank of captain and did not marry.
CATHERINE married Philippe Du Chastel, lord of Blangerval. By letters-patent of July 6, 1584, Philippe Du Chastel became governor and high bailiff of the city and castle of Oudenaarde. He died in 1613, and his son Maximilian succeeded him in these functions.

(12) Statet van goede daer erfachtech uyt verstorven es Jonch' Jacob de Lalaing, heere van Mouillerie, Santberghe, etc., citizen of this town of Audenaerde, deceased within the city of Aelst on May 6th of XVXXXXIX, which state creates and exorcises Joncvr Anna de Chasteler as handerigghe, beforehand widow of Jonc Mr. Joos Vander Meere, in his life lord of Voorde, Landeghem, etc. ; who in benefits withten commere, tome heur hauderigghe and Jonchr Philippe van Lalaing, his audsten zone Charles, Jaspaert, Loys, Ferry, Jacques, Symoen and Joncvr. Cathelyne van Lalaingzyne children orphans, whom he has created by Joncvr. Miss Mary van Edingen, Dame of Zandbergen etc etc , his first housewife, are having and following what each of them owes, both following the marriage contract with previously mentioned Miss Anne and following the local jurisdiction of the previously mentioned city, because the terms of the last contract have come to an end.
…And Jan van Lalaing, who was professed in the monastery of St. Pieters near Ghent, was released from the contract because the protocol of Audenaerde states that all professed persons are dead to the world, therefore they cannot succeed.
…(Conclusion). Thus made known to the upper guardians of the orphans, present the hauderigghe with Joncheere Anths. van Lalaing, lord of Calbeerghe, Jonchr Gheeraert van Seclyn, uncles of the orphans, with Jonchr Phils. van Lalaing, heerevanSantberghe (eldest son); and the aforementioned Jonch Anths. van Lalaing with Jonchr Gheeraert van Seclyn, as procurators for Mrs. Florence Van Rechem (grandmother and guardian of the orphans) in execution of these presents by procuration, etc. And the previously mentioned young lords Antonius van lalaing and Gerard van Seclyn with master Willem de Ruddere, authorised to transfer the named position by young Lord Philips van Lalaing, lord of Bolency, also the uncle of the orphans as is proven by the procuration he has shown here.....Actum den xxiiijen in october XVe LXXIX (1579).
(13)BRASSART,l.cit,p.69.

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