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Maria de la Tour-Tassis

French: Marie de Tassis, German: von Tour und Taxis, Italian: Maria della Torre de Tassis
Also Known As: "Marie de la Tour Tassis", "Marie de Tassis."
Birthdate:
Death: 1601
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Giovanni Battista della Torre de Tassis and Christina van Wachtendonk
Wife of Daniel van den Berghe
Mother of Catharina van den Berghe and Jean Baptiste van den Berghe, Uytterlimminghe
Sister of Antonio de Taxis; Rogerius de Taxis; Raymundo de Tassis; Lenart I, baron von Taxis; Johann Baptista von Taxis and 6 others
Half sister of Johann Anton von Taxis

Managed by: Maxim Arrazola de Oñate
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About Maria de la Tour-Tassis

Ex Wikipedia, Thurn und Taxis:

"By 1516, Francisco de Tassis (Taxis) had moved his family and postal business from Italy to Brussels, in the Duchy of Brabant, where they became instrumental to Habsburg rule, linking the rich Habsburg Netherlands to the Spanish court."

We have a record of the 1513 marriage in the Notre Dame du Sablon of Brussels of Johann to Marie Marguerite's mother. Marie is their youngest daughter. She later marries into the Brabant family of van den Berghe, minor nobility originally from Leuven. See also Wikipedia on that dynasty: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_den_Berghe_de_Limminghe.

In addition to those of the Van den Berghe family who took up religious positions in institutions outside Leuven, Daniel van den Berghe († 1554) was the first to make a career outside Leuven. He was a member of the Council of Flanders and his marriage to Marie de Tassis († 1601) brought with it funds and estates and launched the family into the higher classes of society, much later culminating in Charles van den Berghe de Limminghe, mayor of Brussels, being elevated to Count by Charles II of Spain. At the end of 1695, Count Charles van den Berghe de Limminghe bought a large plot in Brussels that had been cleared through bombardment. There he and his wife Anne-Isabelle Arrazola de Oñate built a prestigious mansion, The Hôtel de Limminghe, which today houses the Brussels-Capital Parliament. He was lord of Neufchapelle, of Piétrebais, of Grez, of Saint-Laurent and of Nodebais, and the family was permitted by Charles II of Spain to embellish their coat of arms with their possessions, making it grandiose.

The eldest son of Daniel and Marie Marguerite, Jean-Baptiste van den Berghe, continued the Brussels trend and became President of the Court of Brabant and married Anne Baert de Berentrode. They underscored their Leuven origins by adopting the fictional toponym "van Limminghe," and their tomb of the Berg-Baerts in the Brussels Sablon church bears the inscription "van den Berghe ex Liminghiis".

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Maria de la Tour-Tassis's Timeline

1528
1528
Leuven, Vlaams Gewest, België (Belgium)
1601
1601
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
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