Belgium
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- 17th cent. - 24
Sep 1781
- Austrian
Netherlands
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- 24 Sep 1781 - 31
Dec 1786
- Austrian
Netherlands
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- 31 Dec 1786 - 24
Oct 1789;
- 7 Dec 1790 - 27
Jul 1794
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- 24 Oct 1789 - 11
Jan 1790
- United Belgian
States
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- 11 Jan 1790
- 7 Dec 1790
- United Belgian
States
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- 19 Nov 1792 - 15
Feb 1814
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- 16 Mar 1815 - 24
Sep 1830
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- 24 Sep 1830 - 23
Jan 1831
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- Adopted 23 Jan
1831
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Map
of Belgium |
Hear
National Anthem
"La Brabançonne"
(The Song of Brabant)
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Text
of National Anthem
Adopted Sep 1830
(Lyrics 1860/1921) |
Constitution
(7 Feb 1831) |
Capital:
Brussels
(Bruxelles/Brussel)
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Currency:
Euro (EUR);
1831 - 1 Jan 2002
Belgian
Franc (BEF); 1940-1944
German
Reichsmark (DER); 1915-1918
Belgian Franken (BEF)
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National
Holiday: 21 Jul (1831)
Fête Nationale/Nationale
Feestdag (National Day)
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Population:
11,570,762
(2018) |
GDP: $529.2
billion (2017)
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Exports:
$300.8 billion (2017)
Imports: $300.4 billion (2017)
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Ethnic groups:
Belgian 75%, Italian 4.1%, Moroccan
3.7%,
French 2.4%, Turkish 2%, Dutch
2%, other 12.8% (2011)
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Total Active
Armed Forces: 28,800 (2018)
U.S. Forces: 924 (2018)
Merchant marine: 185 ships
(2017)
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Religions:
Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant and
other
Christian 2.5%, Muslim 5%, Jewish
0.4%, Buddhist 0.3%,
atheist 9.2%, none 32.6% (2009)
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International
Organizations/Treaties: ADB
(nonregional), AfDB (nonregional), AG, AIIB (nonregional),
ANT (consultative),
APM, Benelux, BIS, BTWC, CCM, CD, CE,
CERN, CFE, CTBT, CWC, DC (observer), DLU
(associate), EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI
(implementing country), EMU, ENMOD, ESA,
ESCR, EU, Euratom, Eutelsat, FAO, FATF,
G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt,
ICRM, ICSID, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS,
IGAD (partner), IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO,
IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, IRENA, ISA, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA,
Moon, MTCR, NATO, NEA, NPT, NSG, NTBT,
OAS (observer), OECD, OIF, OPCW, OS,
OSCE, OST, PA (observer), Paris
Club, PCA, SEGIB
(associate observer), SELEC (observer), UN, UNCLOS,
UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFCC, UNFCC-KP,
UNFCC-PA,
UNHCR, UNRWA, UPU, WADB
(nonregional), WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO,
ZC
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Belgium Index |
Chronology
10th - 11th
cent.
Counties of Louvain (Brabant),
Antwerp, Malines,
Looz, Hainaut (900), Namur, Liège, Stavelot-
Malmedy,
Limburg
(c.1030), Montaigu, La
Roche, Durbuy, Chiny, Arlon, Vianden,
Bouillion
and Luxembourg.
bf.1139
Duchy of Lower Lotharingia
(Lorraine)(north of
Lotharingia; all states except
Liège-Bouillon,
Stavelot and Flanders).
1458
County of Flanders.
1467
Personal union of Flanders and
principalities of
Lotharingia under the Valois dukes of
Burgundy.
26 Jun
1548
Under the Habsburg dynasty.
16 Jan
1556
Spanish Netherlands, under the kings
of the
Spanish monarchy.
13 Jun 1584 - 20 Sep 1604 Ostend under
Dutch (and English) occupation.
1703 -
1706
French occupation (in Namur and
Luxembourg
to 1714).
12 Sep
1703
Limburg under Austrian rule.
Jul
1706
Brabant and Flanders under allied
administration
("conference of the high powers"),
Hainaut and
Namur under Bavarian
administration.
8 May
1713
As a consequence of the War of the
Spanish
Succession, the Spanish Netherlands
passes to
the Archdukes of Austria
(Austrian
Netherlands)(also see Luxembourg).
May 1745 - 18 Oct
1748 Occupied
by France.
11 Jan
1790
United Belgian (or Netherlands) States
(United
States of Belgium or United Belgian
States
[Republiek der Verenigde
Nederlandse Staten]);
Luxembourg remains under Austrian
control.
7 Dec
1790
Austrian rule restored.
19 Nov 1792 - 26 Mar 1793
Occupied by France (Brussels
on 14 Nov 1792,
Antwerp
28 Nov 1792, and Namur 2 Dec
1792); on
25
Mar 1793 Belgium organized into
departments.
15 Dec 1792
French decree proclaims the eventual
"freedom and
sovereignty" of the peoples of the
Austrian
Netherlands and Liège, but from 1 - 30
Mar 1793,
it
is gradually integrated into France.
26 Mar 1793 - 27 Jul 1794
Austrian rule restored.
27 Jul
1794
Re-occupied by France (Brussels on 10
Jul 1794).
15 Oct
1794
Central and Superior Administration of
Belgium
(covering all areas except except
Bouillon).
31 Aug
1795
Belgian territory is divided into nine
departments
1 Oct
1795
Belgian departments annexed by France.
18 Aug
1797
Officially ceded to France by Austria.
15 Feb
1814
Belgian territory separated from
France,
provisional government headed by Gouverneur-
général de la Belgique
installed under authority
of
the Allies- Belgium (Provinces de
la Belgique,
Provinces
Belges also in
official use).
21 Jul 1814
Act
on transfer of sovereignty to the
Sovereign
Prince of the Netherlands is signed,
on
assumption of authority in
Belgium 1 Aug 1814.
16 Mar
1815
Incorporation of the Belgian lands and
Liège into
the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
24 Sep
1830
Administrative Commission established
by Belgian
revolutionary forces.
4 Oct
1830
Proclamation of independence by
provisional
government (confirmed by decree of the
National
Congress of 18 Nov 1830)
(Belgium [Belgique]).
3 Feb
1831
Congress proclaims
Louis-Charles-Philippe-Raphaël
d'Orléans, duc de Nemours, son of
King
Louis-Philippe of the French, to be
king; his
father refuses in his name.
25 Feb
1831
Kingdom of Belgium
4
Aug 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 Occupied
by Germany (in Brussels 20 Aug 1914),
except for
a small area behind the Yser River
(Kaiserliches
Deutsches Generalgouvernement
Belgien,
included Brussels and surrounding
countryside
[A separate zone
under the control
of
the German 4th
Army, included the cities
of Ghent and Antwerp]).
22 Dec 1917 - 25 Jun 1918
Independent State of Flanders
proclaimed.
21 Mar
1917
In preparation for a possible division
into two
separate autonomous or independent
polities,
Belgium was divided into two
administrative
regions: Flandern, capital Brussels and
Wallonien, capital Namur.
20 Sep
1920
Eupen-Malmedy, and Moresnet formally
annexed.
10 May
1940 - 3 Sep 1944 Germany
occupies Belgium (in Brussels 17 May
1940)
administering it together (from 15 Jun
1940) with
Nord
and Pas-de-Calais départements
of France.
29 Jul
1940 -
1944
Eupen, Malmedy and Moresnet annexed to
Germany.
Jul
1944
German military administration
replaced by a
civilian one as a prelude to integration
into
the German Reich (Reichskommissariat
für die
besetzten Gebiete von Belgien
und
Nordfrankreich).
Dec 1944 Belgium is nominally
divided into
three parts: Distrikt
Brüssel,
remaining under
the Reichskommissar;
Reichsgau
Flandern, capital
Antwerpen; and Reichsgau
Wallonien,
capital Liège.
3
Sep 1944 - 21 Sep 1944 Allied
occupation.
Dec
1944 - Jan
1945
Brief German re-occupation of parts of
the
provinces of Liège and Luxembourg.
1 Nov 1993
Part of European
Union (1958-93 European
Community). |
Regions
and
Communities
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Provinces
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French
Départements
(1793-1815)
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Independent
Flanders
(1917-1918)
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Eupen-Malmedy
(1918-1925)
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Bouillon
(1695-1795,
1814-1815) |
Liège
(1694-1795)
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Fagnolle
(Ligne)
(1765-1793)
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Limburg
Duchy
(1703-1795)
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Neutral
Moresnet
(1817-1920)
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Nivelles
(1668-1795)
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Reckheim
(1623-1795)
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Stavelot-Malmedy
(1682-1794) |
Dutch
Ostend
(1584-1603)
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Map
of Belgium
1559-1794
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Historical
Maps
of
Belgium |
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Dukes1
26 Jun 1548 - 25 Oct 1555 Charles
III
(b. 1500 - d. 1558)
26 Jun 1548 - 25 Oct 1555 Maria von
Habsburg (f) -Regent
(b. 1505 - d. 1558)
25 Oct 1555 - 16 Jan 1556 Philip
V
(b. 1527 - d. 1556)
16 Jan 1556 - 16 Nov 1700 the kings
of Spain
- in Hainaut/Henegouwen and Namur/Namen -
16 Nov 1700 - 2 Jan 1712
Philippe
(b. 1683 - d. 1746)
(= Felipe V of Spain)
May 1712 - 8 May
1713 Maximilien
Emmanuel
(b. 1662 - d. 1726)
(= Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria)
8 May 1713 - 20 Oct 1740
Charles
(b. 1685 - d. 1740)
(= Karl III of Austria)
- Limburg/Limbourg -
16 Nov 1700 - 6 Dec 1703
Philippe
(s.a.)
6 Dec 1703 - 20 Oct 1740
Charles
(s.a.)
- in Brabant -
16 Nov 1700 - 5 Jun 1706
Philippe
(s.a.)
5 Jun 1706 - 20 Oct 1740
Charles
(s.a.)
- Flanders/Vlaanderen -
16 Nov 1700 - 6 Jun 1706
Philippe
(s.a.)
6 Jun 1706 - 20 Oct 1740
Charles
(s.a.)
- in Malines, Upper Gelder (to
Prussia 1713), Tournai, West-Flanders
and from 1711, Hainaut (under titular
sovereignty of Charles to Feb 1716) -
12 Sep 1703 - 22 Aug 1718 Conference
of the High Powers
- John Churchill, Duke
of
(b. 1650 - d. 1722)
Marlborough (U.K.) (to 1707)
- William Cadogan (U.K.) (1707-1710) (b. 1675 - d. 1726)
- Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery
(b. 1676 - d. 1731)
(U.K.)(from 1710)
- Frederik Adriaan Baron van Reede, (b. 1659 - d.
1738)
Baron van Renswoude (to 1708)
(United Netherlands)
- Johan van den Bergh (from 1708)
(b. 1664 - d. 1755)
(United Netherlands)
- all of the Southern Netherlands -
22 Aug 1718 - 17 Oct 1797 the rulers
of Austria
(interrupted by invasions and occupations listed [s.b.])
Governors-general
26 Jun 1548 - 25 Oct 1555 Maria von
Habsburg
(f)
(s.a.)
25 Oct 1555 - 27 Jul 1559 Emmanuele
Filiberto, duca di Savoia (b. 1528 - d. 1580)
27 Jul 1559 - 30 Dec 1567 Margarita,
duquesa de Parma (f)
(b. 1522 - d. 1586)
30 Dec 1567 - 29 Nov 1573 Fernando
Álvarez de
Toledo,
(b. 1507 - d. 1582)
duque de Alba
7 Jul 1572 - 8 Nov 1576
Willem, graaf van
Nassau,
(b. 1533 - d. 1584)
prince d'Orange (in rebellion)
29 Nov 1573 - 5 Mar 1576 Luis de
Requesens y Zúñiga
(b. 1528 - d. 1576)
5 Mar 1576 - 31 Jul 1576 Gerónimo
de Roda
+ Philippe de Croy, duc de Aërschot (b. 1526 - d.
1595)
(acting)
31 Jul 1576 - 3 Nov 1576 Charles
Philippe de
Croy,
(b. 1549 - d. 1613)
marquis de Havré (acting)
3 Nov 1576 - 1 Oct 1578 Juan
de
Austria
(b. 1547 - d. 1578)
(acting to 6 May 1577 in Luxembourg)
20 Jan 1578 - 15 Mar 1580 Matthias
Erzherzog von Österreich (b. 1557 - d.
1619)
1 Oct 1578 - 6 Dec 1592
Alessandro Farnese, duca di Parma (b. 1545
- d. 1592)
Jun 1580 - Nov
1581 Margarita,
duquesa de Parma (f)
(s.a.)
(co-ruler, in Namur)
26 Jan 1581 - 26 Jul 1581 Francis
Hercule, duc
d'Anjou
(b. 1555 - d. 1584)
et d'Alençon (in dissidence)
(Prince Souverain des Pays-Bas)
1592 - Feb
1594
Peter Ernst Graf von
Mansfeld- (b. 1517 -
d. 1604)
Heldrungen (acting to 6 Dec 1592)
Feb 1594 - 12 Feb 1595
Ernst Erzherzog von
Österreich (b. 1553
- d. 1595)
12 Feb 1595 -
1596
Pedro Enríquez de Azevedo,
(b. 1525 - d. 1610)
conde de Fuentes (interim)
1596 -
1598
Albrecht Erzherzog von Österreich (b. 1559
- d. 1621)
1598 - 6 May
1598
Andreas Erzherzog von Österreich (b.
1558 - d. 1600)
6 May 1598 - 1 Dec 1633
Isabella Clara Eugenia de España (f) (b. 1566 - d. 1633)
(Princesse Souveraine des Pays-Bas to 13 Jul
1621)
5 Sep 1599 - 13 Jul 1621 Albrecht
Erzherzog von Osterreich (b. 1559 - d.
1621)
(Prince Souverain des Pays-Bas)
29 Nov 1621 -
1634
Francisco de Moncada, marqués
(b. 1586 - d. 1635)
de Aytona (interim from 1633)
1634 - 9 Nov
1641
Fernando, Arzobispo de
Toledo (b.
1609 - d. 1641)
1641 -
1644
Francisco Melo de Portugal y Castro (b.
1597 - d. 1651)
marqués de Villanueva
1644 -
1647
Emanuel de Moura y Corte-Real,
(b. c.1590 - d. 1651)
marqués de Castel Rodrigo
1647 -
1656
Leopold Wilhelm Erzherzog von
(b. 1614 - d. 1662)
Österreich
1656 - Mar
1659
Juan José
d'Austria
(b. 1629 - d. 1679)
1659 - Sep
1664
Luis de Benavides Carrillo de
(b. 1608 - d. 1668)
Toldedo, marqués de Caracena
1664 - Sep
1668
Francisco de
Moura-Cortereal,
(b. 1610 - d. 1675)
marqués da Castel Rodrigo
1668 - Jul
1670
Íñigo Melchor Fernández de Valesco (b.
1629 - d. 1696)
y Guzmán, duque de Feria
1670 - Feb
1675
Juan Domingo de Zúñiga y Fonseca, (b.
1640 - d. 1716)
conde de Monterrey
1675 - Dec
1677
Carlos de Aragón de Gurrea y Borja, (b. 1634 - d.
1692)
duque de Villahermosa
1678 -
1682
Alessandro Farnese de
Parma
(b. 1635 - d. 1689)
1682 - 19 Jun
1685
Ottone Enrico del
Carretto,
(b. 1639 - d. 1685)
conte di Millesimo
1685 - 1692
Francisco Antonio de
Agurto,
(b. 1640 - d. 1702)
marques de Gastañaga
1692 - 23 Mar
1701
Kurfürst Maximilian II von Bayern (b. 1662
- d. 1726)
(1st time)
23 Mar 1701 - 7 Oct 1704 Jan van Brouchoven
Graf van
(b. 1644 - d. 1725)
Bergeyck
7 Oct 1704 - Jul 1706
Kurfürst Maximilian II von Bayern
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
Administrators-general (governors of Limburg +
Liège)
22 Oct 1703 - 1705
Philipp
Ludwig Wenzel Graf
(b. 1671 - d. 1742)
Sinzendorff und Thannhausen
(1st
time)
19 Oct 1705 - 1707
Johann Peter
Graf von Goëss
(b. 1667 - d. 1716)
6 Nov 1707 - Jul 1709
Francisco Bernardo de
Quiros (b.
1650 - d. 1709)
23 Jul 1709 - 25 Feb 1710 Johann Wenzel
Graf von Gallas (b. 1670 - d.
1719)
25 Feb 1710 - 27 Oct 1713 Franz Adolf
Freiherr von Zinserling
27 Oct 1713 - 14 Dec 1713
Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Graf
(s.a.)
Sinzendorff und Thannhausen
(2nd
time)
Governors (of Limburg)
14 Dec 1713 -
1714 Georg
Freiherr Tunderfeld
(b. 1678 - d. 1748)
17 Mar 1714 - 31 Jan 1716 Franz
Sigismund Graf Thurn und
(b. 1662 - d. 1726)
Valsassina
Governors-general
31 Jan 1716 - Nov 1716
Joseph Lothar Dominik Graf
von (b. 1673 - d.
1751)
Königsegg-Rothenfels (acting)
Nov 1716 -
1717
Ercole Giuseppe Luigi
Turinetti (b. 1658 - d.
1726)
marchese di Prié (acting)
1717 - Dec
1724
François Eugéne (Eugenio) prince de (b. 1663 - d.
1736)
Savoie-Soissons
(= Eugen Prinz von Savoyen)
Dec 1724 - 9 Oct
1725 Wirich Philipp Lorenz Graf
Dhaun (b. 1669 - d. 1741)
(acting)
9 Oct 1725 - 26 Aug 1741 Maria
Elisabeth Erzherzogin von
(b. 1680 - d. 1741)
Österreich (f)
26 Aug 1741 - 16 Mar 1743 Friedrich
August Gervas Graf Harrach (b. 1696 - d. 1749)
zu Rohrau (acting)
16 Mar 1743 - 8 Jan 1744 Karl
Ferdinand Graf von Königsegg- (b. 1696 - d.
1759)
Erps (acting)
8 Jan 1744 - 16 Mar 1746 Karl
Alexander Prinz von Lothringen (b. 1712 - d. 1780)
und Bar (1st time)
- jointly with -
8 Jan 1744 - 16 Dec 1744
Maria Anna Erzherzogin
von
(b. 1718 - d. 1744)
Österreich (f)
French Military Governor
May 1745 - 18 Oct 1748
Moritz von Sachsen (Marurice de Saxe)(b. 1696 - d. 1750)
Governors-general
Oct 1748 - 23 Apr 1749 Karl
Joseph Graf Batthyány (acting) (b. 1697 - d. 1772)
23 Apr 1749 - 4 Jul 1780
Karl Alexander Prinz von Lothringen (s.a.)
und Bar (2nd time)
28 Jun 1780 - Nov 1480 Georg
Adam Fürst von Starhemberg (b.
1724 - d. 1807)
(acting)
Nov 1780 - Jun 1787
Marie Christine
Johanna Josepha (b. 1742 -
d. 1798)
Antonia Erzherzogin von
Österreich (f)(1st time)
- jointly with -
Nov 1780 - Jun 1787
Albert Kasimir
August Prinz von (b. 1738
- d. 1822)
Sachsen-Teschen (1st time)
Jun 1787 - Nov 1787
Joseph Graf Murray
(acting)
(b. 1718 - d. 1802)
Military governor
Nov 1787 - 12 Dec 1789
Richard Graf
Alton
(b. 1732 - d. 1790)
Commander of the Patriotic Army
24 Oct 1789 - 11 Jan 1790 Jan Frans
Vonck
(b. 1743 - d. 1792)
Plenipotentiary of the People of Brabant
24 Oct 1789 - 11 Jan 1790 Hendrik Karel
Nicolaas van der Noot (b. 1731 - d. 1827)
Presidents of the Sovereign Congress of the Belgian
States
11 Jan 1790 - Mar 1790
François Corneille de Nélis
(b. 1736 - d. 1798)
Mar 1790 - Apr 1790 Amour
Joseph Philippe Charles Taye, (b. 1738 -
d. 1792)
marquis
de Wemmel (1st time)
Apr 1790
Philippe Joseph, baron de
Néverlée (b. 1749 - d. 1829)
de Baulet
Apr 1790 - May 1790
Louis-Joseph de Haveskercke
(b. 1736 - d. 1812)
May 1790
Bonaventure Hyacinthe
Joseph de (b. 1755 - d. 1831)
Bousies
(1st time)
May 1790
Amour Joseph
Philippe Charles Taye, (s.a.)
marquis
de Wemmel (2nd time)
May 1790 - Jun 1790 Bonaventure
Hyacinthe Joseph de (s.a.)
Bousies
(2nd time)
Jun 1790 - Jul 1790 Charles
Joseph de Grave
(b. 1736 - d. 1805)
Jul 1790 - Aug 1790
Jean François Gendebien
(b. 1753 - d. 1838)
Aug 1790 - Sep 1790
François Ignace van der Meersch (b.
1750 - d. 1825)
Sep 1790 - Oct 1790
Ignace Joseph de La Saulx de
(b. 1734 - d. 1805)
Gulchen,
seigneur de Ravede et
Sainte-Marie
Oct 1790 - Nov 1790
Baptiste François Xavier Hyacinthe, (b.
1737 - d. 1815)
comte de Baillet
8 Nov 1790 - Nov 1790 Hendrik
Herman Werner Frans Anton (b. 1738
- d. 1811)
van
Crumpipen
Nov 1790 - 2 Dec
1790 Petrus Johannes Simon
Visbecque (b. 1744 - d.
1804)
van
Eupen
Governors-general
6 Dec 1790 - Jun
1791 Florimond Claude Graf
Mercy-
(b. 1722 - d. 1794)
Argenteau (acting)
Jun 1791 - 19 Nov 1792
Marie Christine Johanna
Josepha (s.a.)
Antonia Erzherzogin von
Österreich (f) (2nd time)
- jointly with -
Jun 1791 - 19 Nov 1792
Albert Kasimir August Prinz
von (s.a.)
Sachsen-Teschen (2nd time)
Commanders of French forces
19 Nov 1792 - 29 Dec 1792 Charles
François du
Perrier
(b. 1739 - d. 1823)
Dumouriez (1st time)
29 Dec 1792 - 2 Feb 1793 Francisco
de Miranda
(acting) (b.
1750 - d. 1816)
2 Feb 1793 - 9 Mar 1793
Charles François du
Perrier
(s.a.)
Dumouriez (2nd time)
Austrian Governors-general
9 Mar 1793 - 26 Mar 1793 Franz Karl
Johann Nepomuk, Graf (b.
1746 - d. 1818)
von Metternich zu Winneburg (acting)
26 Mar 1793 - 2 Aug 1794 Karl
Ludwig Erzherzog von Österreich (b. 1771 - d. 1847)
French Commander
27 Jul 1794 - 15 Oct 1794 Jean Charles
Pichegru
(b. 1761 - d. 1804)
(from 9 Feb 1794, commander of the Armée du Nord)
Presidents of the Central and Superior Administration
of Belgium
(Président de l'administration centrale et
supérieure de la Belgique)
Oct 1794 - Dec 1794
Jacques Laurent Béthune
(b. 1713 - d. 1799)
Dec 1794 - Jan 1795 Charles
Joseph Mathieu Lambrechts (b. 1753 - d.
1823)
(1st
time)
Jan 1795 - Feb 1795 Jean
Baptiste Joseph Delabuisse (b. 1754
- d. 1809)
Feb 1795 - Mar 1795 Charles
Lambert Doutrepont
(b. 1746 - d. 1809)
Mar 1795 - Apr 1795 Antoine
Delval-Lagache
(b. 1748 - d. 1823)
Apr 1795 - May 1795 Jacques
Guillaume Meyer
(b. 1760 - d. 1805)
May 1795 - Jun 1795
Henri Denier
Jun 1795 - Jul 1795
Charles Joseph Mathieu Lambrechts
(s.a.)
(2nd
time)
Jul 1795 - Aug 1795
Nicolas Bonaventure
(b. 1753 - d. 1831)
Aug 1795 - Sep 1795
Charles Louis Michel
29 Sep 1795 - Oct 1795 Jacques
Joseph Chapel
Chairmen of council of government
13 Oct 1795 - 27 Oct 1795 Julien Urbain François
Marie Riel (b. 1757 - d. 1816)
Lefebvre
de Nantes
+ Jacques
Charles Giroust
(b. 1749 - d. 1836)
Oct 1795 - 22 Nov 1795 Louis François
René Portiez de (b. 1756 -
d. 1810)
l'Oise
+ Emmanuel
Pérès de la Haute-Garone (b. 1752 - d. 1833)
+ Claude Roberjot (did not
arrive) (b. 1752 - d. 1799)
French Commissioner of the Directory
22 Nov 1795 - 20 Jan 1797 Louis Ghislain
de Bouteville-Dumetz (b. 1746 - d. 1821)
1 Oct 1795 - 30 Jan 1814 Annexed
to France (see departments below)
Governors-general (on behalf of the
Allied Powers)
30 Jan 1814 - 11 Feb 1814 Allied
Military Commanders
- Karl August Herzog von Sachsen- (b.
1757 - d. 1828)
Weimar
- Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von
(b. 1755 - d. 1816)
Bülow, Graf von Dennewitz
- Ferdinand Freiherr
von
(b. 1770 - d. 1818)
Wintzigerode
11 Feb 1814 - 18 Mar 1814
Allied Commissioners
- Justus Adolf Philipp
Wilhelm (b. 1774 -
d. 1845)
Ludwig Freiherr von Wolzogen
(to 15
Feb 1814)
- Leopold Hermann Ludwig von Boyen (b. 1771
- d. 1848)
(to 15 Feb 1814)
- Daniel
Heinrich Delius
(b. 1773 - d. 1832)
(from
15 Feb 1814)
- Carl
Friedrich Heinrich Graf von (b. 1767 - d. 1841)
Wylich
und Lottum (from 15 Feb 1814)
15 Feb 1814 - 19 Mar 1814 Frédéric Auguste
Alexandre, duc de (b. 1751 - d. 1817)
Beaufort-Spontin,
marquis de Spontin,
de Florennes et de Courcelles,
comte de Beauraing
15 Feb 1814 - 18 Feb 1814 Eugène
Jean-Baptiste, comte
de (b. 1741 - d.
1820)
Robiano (acting for Beaufort-Spontin)
19 Mar 1814 - 5 May 1814 August Friedrich
Karl Hermann (b.
1780 - d. 1861)
Freiherr von der Horst
5 May 1814 - 31 Jul 1814 Nicholas
Charles, baron de Vincent (b. 1757 - d. 1834)
(= Nikolaus Karl Freiherr von Vincent)
(Gouverneur-général militaire de
la Belgique et du pays de Liège)
1 Aug 1814 - 12 May 1815 Willem
Frederik van Oranje-Nassau (b. 1772 -
d. 1843)
declined to serve and appointed a Lieutenant:
Godert Alexander Gerard Philip,
baron van der Capellen, heer van (b. 1778 -
d. 1848)
Berkenwoude en Agterbroek
24 Sep 1830 - 25 Feb 1831 Administrative
Commission (from 26 Sep
1830, Provisional Government)
- Emmanuel Constant Prismes
(b. 1782 - d. 1866) Con
Ghislain van der Linden,
baron d'Hooghvorst, comte de
Hornbeéck (to 14 Feb 1831)
- Charles Latour
Rogier
(b. 1800 - d. 1885) Lib
(signs as chairman on 25 Sep 1830, but never again)
- Philippe Félix Balthazar Othon
(b. 1791 - d. 1857) Con
Ghislain, comte de Mérode
(from 26 Sep 1830)
- Alexandre Joseph
Célestin
(b. 1789 - d. 1869) Lib
Gendebien (from 26 Sep 1830)
- Jean Sylvain van de Weyer
(b. 1802 - d. 1874)
Lib
(from 26 Sep 1830)
- André Édouard Jolly
(b. 1799 - d. 1831)
Mil
- Feuillen Charles Marie Joseph,
(b. 1800 - d. 1887) Con
baron de Coppin de Falaën
- Joseph van der Linden(Vanderlinden)(b. 1798 - d.
1877) Lib
- Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter
(b. 1786 - d. 1859) Con
(28 Sep - 13 Nov 1830)
- Joseph Nicolay (Nicolaï)
(b. 1798? - d. 1842)
(25 Sep - 10 Oct 1830)
5 Oct 1830 - 26 Oct 1830 Willem
Frederik, prins van Oranje- (b. 1792 -
d. 1849)
Nassau (Netherlands provisional Governor-
general
of Southern provinces; in Antwerp)
Regent
25 Feb 1831 - 21 Jul 1831 Érasme Louis,
baron Surlet
de (b. 1769 -
d. 1839) Lib
Chokier
Kings2
21 Jul 1831 - 10 Dec 1865 Léopold
I
(b. 1790 - d. 1865)
(king-elect from 4 Jun 1831)
10 Dec 1865 - 17 Dec 1865 Charles Latour
Rogier
(s.a.)
PL
(acting Head of State)
17 Dec 1865 - 17 Dec 1909 Léopold
II
(b. 1835 - d. 1909)
17 Dec 1909 - 23 Dec 1909 Frans Victor
Marie Ghislain
(b. 1851 - d.
1917) CP
Schollaert (acting Head of
State)
23 Dec 1909 - 17 Feb 1934 Albert
I
(b. 1875 - d. 1934)
(at La Panne, Belgium Oct 1914 - 21 Nov 1918)
German military commanders
4 Aug 1914 - 2 Sep 1914
Alexander Heinrich Rudolf von Kluck (b.
1846 - d. 1934) Mil
+ Karl Wilhelm Paul von
Bülow (b. 1846
- d. 1921) Mil
+ Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von (b.
1846 - d. 1922) Mil
Hausen
Governors-general (under German
occupation)
2 Sep 1914 - 3 Dec 1914
Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr
(b. 1843 - d. 1916) Mil
von der
Goltz
3 Dec 1914 - 18 Apr 1917 Moritz
Ferdinand Freiherr
von (b. 1844 -
d. 1917) Mil
Bissing
18 Apr 1917 - 3 May 1917 Johann von Zwehl
(acting) (b.
1851 - d. 1926) Mil
3 May 1917 - 11 Nov 1918 Ludwig
Freiherr von Falkenhausen (b.
1844 - d. 1936) Mil
King2
17 Feb 1934 - 23 Feb 1934 Charles Marie Pierre
Albert,
(b. 1860 - d. 1940) CP
comte de Broqueville
(acting Head of State)
23 Feb 1934 - 16 Jul 1951 Léopold
III
(b. 1901 - d. 1983)
(German prisoner 28 May 1940 - 8 May 1945;
in exile in Switzerland 8 May 1945 - 22 Jul 1950)
German Military Governors
10 May 1940 - 31 May 1940 Karl Rudolf
Gerd von Rundstedt
(b. 1875 - d. 1953) Mil
+ Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich (b. 1880
- d. 1945) Mil
Fedor von Bock
1 Jun 1940 - 18 Jul 1944 Alexander
Ernst Alfred Hermann (b.
1878 - d. 1966) Mil
Freiherr
von Falkenhausen
(military governor for occupied Netherlands and Belgium
to 29 May 1940, then for Belgium and Northern France)
Reichskommissar für die Besetzten Gebiete
von Belgien und Nordfrankreich
18 Jul 1944 - 3 Sep 1944 Josef
Grohé (1st time)
(b. 1902 - d.
1987) NSDAP
Dec 1944 - Jan
1945 Josef
Grohé (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
NSDAP
Allied Military Commanders
3 Sep 1944 - 21 Sep 1944 Omar
Nelson Bradley
(U.S.)
(b. 1893 - d. 1981) Mil
+ Bernard Law Montgomery
(U.K.) (b. 1887 - d.
1976) Mil
Kings2
21 Sep 1944 - 18 Jul 1950 Charles Théodore Henri
Antoine (b. 1903 -
d. 1983)
Meinrad, comte de Flandre,
prince de Belgique -Regent
11 Aug 1950 - 16 Jul 1951 Baudouin Albert
Charles Léopold (b. 1930 -
d. 1993)
Axel Marie Gustave, duc de Brabant,
prince de Belgique -Regent
16 Jul 1951 - 17 Jul 1951 Clovis
Louis Marie Emmanuel Joseph (b. 1884 -
d. 1968) CVP-PSC
Pholien
(acting Head of State)
17 Jul 1951 - 31 Jul 1993 Baudouin
I
(s.a.)
(declared incapacitated at own request, 4-5 Apr 1990)
4 Apr 1990 - 5 Apr 1990
Wilfried
Martens
(b. 1936 - d. 2013) CVP
(acting Head of State)
31 Jul 1993 - 9 Aug 1993 Jean-Luc
Joseph Marie Dehaene
(b. 1940 - d.
2014) CVP
(acting Head of State)
9 Aug 1993 - 21 Jul 2013 Albert
II
(b. 1934)
21 Jul
2013
Elio di Rupo (acting Head of State)
(b. 1951) PS
21 Jul 2013
-
Philippe
(b. 1960)
Presidents of the Supreme Council of the
Netherlands (in Vienna)
1 Apr 1717 - 25 Jun 1729 José
Ceverio Folch de
Cardona, (b. 1651 -
d. 1729)
Príncipe de Cardona Erill y Borja
25 Jun 1729 - 20 Nov 1740 Juan Antonio de Baxador,
vizconde
de Roccaberti, conde de Savalla (b.
1673 - d. 1743)
(acting to Aug 1729)
20 Nov 1740 - 12 Dec 1740 Karl Ferdinand
Graf von Königsegg- (s.a.)
Erps (acting)
12 Dec 1740 -
1757
Manoel Téllez de Menezes e Castro, (b. 1696
- d. 1771)
duque de Sylva, conde de Tarouca
1757 - 31 Mar
1757
Melchior Relles Girón, marqués de (d.
1763)
Pacheco (acting)
French Intendant of Justice, Police et Finances
May 1745 - 18 Oct 1748
Jean Moreau de
Séchelles
(b. 1690 - d. 1760)
Joint Provisional Government-general of the
Netherlands
Oct 1748 - 23 Apr 1749
Leopold Philipp Carl Joseph Herzog
(b. 1690 - d. 1754)
von Arenberg, Herzog von Aërschot
und Croy
+ Augustin Dieudonné de Steenhault (b. 1672
- d. 1758)
+ Ambroise-Joseph, marquis de
(b. 1680 - d. 1759)
Herzelles
+ Herman de Crumpipen
+ Jean Daniel Antoine
Scockart, (b. 1698 - d.
1756)
comte de Thirimont
Niederländischer Referendar (in
Vienna)
1 Apr 1757 - 27 Apr 1766 Johann
Anton Jakob van
Dorn
(b. 1722 - d. 1766)
27 Apr 1766 - 20 Oct 1766 Vacant
Conductor of the Netherlands departments
(in Vienna)
20 Oct 1766 - 1 Mar 1793 August
Gottlob Freiherr von Lederer (b. 1723 - d. 1795)
Prime minister of the Belgian States
11 Jan 1790 - 2 Dec 1790 Hendrik
Karel Nicolaas van der Noot (s.a.)
Hofrat der Niederländischen Hofkanzlei
(in Vienna)
1 Mar 1793 - 5 Sep 1795
August Gottlob Freiherr von Lederer (s.a.)
Chief secretary of the Belgian States Secretariat
1 Aug 1814 - Sep
1815 Pieter Lodewijk Joseph
Servaes
van
Gobbelschroy
(b. 1784 - d. 1850)
Presidents of the Council of Ministers
26 Feb 1831 - 27 Feb 1831 Albert Joseph
Goblet (1st time)
(b. 1790 - d. 1873) Uni/Lib
27 Feb 1831 - 15 Mar 1831 Étienne
Constantin de
Gerlache (b. 1785 -
d. 1871) Uni/Con
Cabinet Chiefs
15 Mar 1831 - 23 Mar 1831 Étienne
Constantin de
Gerlache
(s.a.)
Uni/Con
23 Mar 1831 - 26 Jul 1831 Jean Louis
Joseph Lebeau (1st time) (b. 1794 - d.
1865) Uni/Lib
26 Jul 1831 - 17 Sep 1832
Félix Armand, comte de Mûelenaere
(b. 1794 - d. 1862) Uni/Con
17 Sep 1832 - 20 Oct 1832 Albert Joseph
Goblet (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Uni/Lib
(acting)
20 Oct 1832 - 4 Aug 1834 Charles
Latour Rogier (1st time)
(s.a.)
Uni/Lib
4 Aug 1834 - 18 Apr 1840 Barthélemy
Théodore, chevalier
(b. 1794 - d. 1874) Uni/Con
de Theux de Meylandt (1st time)
(from 18 Mar 1840, Barthélemy Théodore,
comte de
Theux de Meylandt)
18 Apr 1840 - 13 Apr 1841 Jean Louis Joseph
Lebeau (2nd time) (s.a.)
Uni/Lib
13 Apr 1841 - 30 Jul 1845 Jean Baptiste, baron
Nothomb
(b. 1805 - d. 1881) Uni/Con
30 Jul 1845 - 31 Mar 1846 Jean Sylvain
van de
Weyer
(s.a.)
Uni/Con
31 Mar 1846 - 12 Aug 1847 Barthélemy
Théodore, comte
(s.a.)
CP
de Theux de Meylandt (2nd time)
12 Aug 1847 - 31 Oct 1852 Charles Latour
Rogier (2nd time)
(s.a.)
PL
31 Oct 1852 - 30 Mar 1855 Henri Ghislain
Joseph Marie de (b. 1801 -
d. 1891) PL
Brouckère
30 Mar 1855 - 9 Nov 1857 Pierre
Jacques François de Decker (b. 1812 -
d. 1891) CP
10 Nov 1857 - 3 Jan 1868 Charles
Latour Rogier (3rd time)
(s.a.)
PL
3 Jan 1868 - 2 Jul 1870
Hubert Joseph Walthère Frère-Orban (b. 1812
- d. 1896) PL
(1st time)
3 Jul 1870 - 7 Dec 1871 Jules
Joseph, baron
d'Anethan (b.
1803 - d. 1888) CP
7 Dec 1871 - 21 Aug 1874 Barthélemy
Théodore, comte de Theux (s.a.)
CP
de
Meylandt (3rd time)
21 Aug 1874 - 18 Jun 1878 Jules Édouard
François Xavier Malou (b. 1810 - d.
1886) CP
(1st
time)
19 Jun 1878 - 16 Jun 1884 Hubert Joseph
Walthère Frère-Orban
(s.a.)
PL
(2nd time)
16 Jun 1884 - 26 Oct 1884 Jules Édouard
François Xavier Malou
(s.a.)
CP
(2nd
time)
26 Oct 1884 - 26 Mar 1894 Auguste Marie
François Beernaert (b.
1829 - d. 1912) CP
26 Mar 1894 - 25 Feb 1896 Jules Philippe
Marie de Burlet
(b. 1844 - d. 1897) CP
25 Feb 1896 - 24 Jan 1899 Paul Joseph de
Smet de Nayer (b.
1843 - d. 1913) CP
(1st time)
24 Jan 1899 - 5 Aug 1899 Jules
Henri Pierre François
(b. 1843 - d. 1917) CP
Vandenpeereboom
5 Aug 1899 - 2 May 1907 Paul
Joseph de Smet de Nayer
(s.a.)
CP
(from 26 May 1900, Paul comte de Smet de
Nayer)
(2nd time)
2 May 1907 - 31 Dec 1907 Julius Hendrik
Maria Gislenus de (b. 1857 -
d. 1907) CP
Trooz
31 Dec 1907 - 9 Jan 1908 Vacant
9 Jan 1908 - 17 Jun 1911 Frans Victor Marie
Ghislain
(s.a.)
CP
Schollaert
17 Jun 1911 - 1 Jun 1918 Charles
Marie Pierre Albert,
(s.a.)
CP
baron de Broqueville
(in exile 17 Aug - 7 Oct 1914 in Antwerp;
from 13
Oct 1914 in Le Havre, France)
2 Sep 1914 - 4 Jul 1917
Maximilian Karl von Sandt
(b. 1861 - d. 1918) Non-party
(chief of civil administration)
1 Jun 1918 - 21 Nov 1918 Gérard
François Marie Cooreman
(b. 1852 - d. 1926) CP
(in Le Havre, France
exile)
4 Jul 1917 - 11 Nov 1918 Alexander
Schaible
(b. 1870 - d. 1933) Non-party
(chief
of civil administration of Flemish
Administrative Region)
4 Jul 1917 - 11 Nov 1918 Karl Haniel
(b. 1877 - d. 1944)
Non-party
(chief
of civil administration of Walloon Administrative
Region)
10 Nov 1918 - 16? Nov 1918 Hugo Freund
(b. 1890 - d. 1974)
(chairman
of Executive Committee of the Central
Soldiers' Council, in rebellion)
Prime ministers
21 Nov 1918 - 20 Nov 1920 Léon Frédéric Gustave
Delacroix (b.
1867 - d. 1929) CP
20 Nov 1920 - 16 Dec 1921 Henri Victor
Marie Ghislain, (b.
1869 - d. 1951) CP
comte Carton de Wiart
16 Dec 1921 - 13 May 1925 Georges Emile
Pierre Léonard Theunis (b. 1873 - d.
1944) CP
(1st
time)
13 May 1925 - 17 Jun 1925 Aloïs
Jean-Marie Joseph van de
(b. 1871 - d. 1961) CP
Vyvere
17 Jun 1925 - 20 May 1926 Prosper Antoine
Marie Joseph,
(b. 1871 - d. 1935) CP
vicomte
Poullet
20 May 1926 - 5 Jun 1931 Henri
Jaspar
(b. 1870 - d. 1939) CP
5 Jun 1931 - 22 Oct 1932 Jules
Laurent Jean-Louis Renkin
(b. 1862 - d. 1934) CP
22 Oct 1932 - 20 Nov 1934 Charles Marie
Pierre Albert, comte
(s.a.)
CP
de
Broqueville
20 Nov 1934 - 25 Mar 1935 Georges Emile
Pierre Léonard Theunis
(s.a.)
CP
(2nd
time)
25 Mar 1935 - 24 Nov 1937 Paul Guillaume
van
Zeeland
(b. 1893 - d. 1973) CP
24 Nov 1937 - 15 May 1938 Paul Émile
Janson
(b. 1872 - d. 1944) PL
15 May 1938 - 20 Feb 1939 Paul-Henri
Charles Spaak (1st time) (b. 1899 - d. 1972)
POB-BWP
21 Feb 1939 - 12 Feb 1945 Hubert Marie
Eugène Pierlot
(b. 1883 - d. 1963) PCS-KVV
(in exile 25 May 1940 - 8 Sep 1944
[first
in France, from 25 Oct 1940 in London])
Presidents of the Committee of
Secretaries-general (under occupation)
16 May 1940 - 2 Sep 1940 Alexandre
Louis Joseph Delmer
(b. 1879 - d. 1974) Non-party
(1st
time)
3 Sep 1940 - 31 Jan 1941 Antoine
Ernst, baron de Bunswyck (b. 1874 - d.
1943) Non-party
3 Feb 1941 - 31 Mar 1941 Alexandre
Louis Joseph Delmer
(s.a.)
Non-party
(2nd
time)
4 Apr 1941 - 5 Sep 1944 Oscar
Endé Plisnier
(b. 1885 - d. 1952)
Non-party
8 Dec 1944 - May
1945 Léon Degrelle (in Germany
exile) (b. 1906 - d. 1994)
Rex
(Reichsstatthalter
Wallonien, Chef-du-Peuple Wallon)
15 Dec 1944 - May 1945
Jef Van de Wiele (in Germany exile) (b. 1902 - d.
1979) DeVlag
(Reichsstatthalter
Flandern,
Landsleider
van het Vlaamsche Volk)
Prime ministers
12 Feb 1945 - 13 Mar 1946 Achille Honoré
van Acker (1st time) (b. 1898 - d. 1975)
BSP-PSB
13 Mar 1946 - 31 Mar 1946 Paul-Henri
Charles Spaak (2nd time)
(s.a.)
BSP-PSB
31 Mar 1946 - 3 Aug 1946 Achille
Honoré van Acker (2nd time)
(s.a.)
BSP-PSB
3 Aug 1946 - 20 Mar 1947 Jean
Joseph Camille
Huysmans
(b. 1871 - d. 1968) BSP-PSB
20 Mar 1947 - 11 Aug 1949 Paul-Henri
Charles Spaak (3rd time)
(s.a.)
BSP-PSB
11 Aug 1949 - 8 Jun 1950 Gaston
François Marie Eyskens
(b. 1905 - d. 1988) CVP-PSC
(1st
time)
8 Jun 1950 - 15 Aug 1950 Jean
Pierre Armand Ghislain Marie (b.
1900 - d. 1977) CVP-PSC
Duvieusart
16 Aug 1950 - 15 Jan 1952 Clovis Louis
Marie Emmanuel Joseph
(s.a.)
CVP-PSC
Pholien
15 Jan 1952 - 23 Apr 1954 Jean Marie
Joseph van
Houtte
(b. 1907 - d. 1991) CVP-PSC
23 Apr 1954 - 26 Jun 1958 Achille Honoré
van Acker (3rd time)
(s.a.)
BSP-PSB
26 Jun 1958 - 25 Apr 1961 Gaston François
Marie Eyskens
(s.a.)
CVP-PSC
(2nd
time)
25 Apr 1961 - 28 Jul 1965 Théodore Joseph
Albéric Marie (b.
1914 - d. 1973) CVP-PSC
Lefèvre
28 Jul 1965 - 19 Mar 1966 Pierre Charles
José Marie Harmel (b.
1911 - d. 2009) CVP-PSC
19 Mar 1966 - 17 Jun 1968 Paul Emile
François Henri Vanden (b. 1919 -
d. 2001) CVP-PSC
Boeynants (1st time)
17 Jun 1968 - 26 Jan 1973 Gaston
François Marie Eyskens
(s.a.)
CVP
(3rd
time)
26 Jan 1973 - 25 Apr 1974 Edmond Jules
Isidore Leburton
(b. 1915 - d. 1997) BSP-PSB
25 Apr 1974 - 20 Oct 1978 Léo Clemence
Tindemans
(b. 1922 - d. 2014) CVP
20 Oct 1978 - 3 Apr 1979 Paul Emile
François Henri Vanden
(s.a.)
CVP
Boeynants (2nd time)
3 Apr 1979 - 6 Apr 1981
Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens
(s.a.)
CVP
(1st
time)
6 Apr 1981 - 17 Dec 1981 Marc Maria
Frans
Eyskens
(b.
1933)
CVP
17 Dec 1981 - 7 Mar 1992 Wilfried
Achiel Emma Martens
(s.a.)
CVP
(2nd
time)
7 Mar 1992 - 12 Jul 1999 Jean-Luc
Joseph Marie
Dehaene
(s.a.)
CVP
12 Jul 1999 - 20 Mar 2008 Guy Maurice
Marie-Louise Verhofstadt (b.
1953)
VLD
20 Mar 2008 - 30 Dec 2008 Yves Camille
Désiré Leterme
(b. 1960)
CD&V
(1st time)
30 Dec 2008 - 25 Nov 2009 Herman Achille
Van
Rompuy
(b. 1947)
CD&V
25 Nov 2009 - 6 Dec 2011 Yves Camille Désiré
Leterme
(s.a.)
CD&V
(2nd
time)
6 Dec 2011 - 11 Oct 2014 Elio Di Rupo
(s.a.)
PS
11 Oct 2014 - 27 Oct 2019
Charles Yves Jean Ghislaine Michel (b. 1975)
MR
27 Oct 2019 - 1 Oct 2020 Sophie Wilmès
(f)
(b. 1975)
MR
1 Oct 2020
-
Alexander De
Croo
(b.
1975)
O.VLD
¹Full
style: Duke/Duchess of Lothier, Brabant, Limbourg,
Gueldre and Luxembourg, Count/Countess of Flanders,
Hainaut, Namur and Chiny, Lord/Lady of Malines and
Tournai, Marquis/Marchioness of Anvers and of the Holy
Roman Empire.
2Full
style of the ruler:
(a) from 21 Jul
1831: Roi des Belges (French);
Koning der Belgen (Dutch; official
from 25 May 1898); König der
Belgier (German; official from 11 Nov
1991)("King of the Belgians"). Under the constitution of
the Kingdom of Belgium there was initially no official
language, but French was legally authoritative; French
and Dutch became official jointly from 25 May 1898,
joined by German from 11 Nov 1991.
A peculiarity of the Constitution of Belgium is the
provision that "[the King] does not ascend the throne
until he has taken the oath." Thus between a demise of
the crown by death or abdication and the taking office
of the next king the provisions for a vacancy or
incapacity take over: "The constitutional powers of the
King are exercised, in the name of the Belgian people,
by the Ministers meeting in Council." The entity acting
as head of state in these circumstances is thus the
council of ministers.
Party abbreviations: CDH
= Centre Démocrate Humaniste (Democratic
Humanist Center, Francophone,
centrist, ex-PSC, est.2002); CD&V =
Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams
(Christian-Democratic and Flemish, christian-democratic,
Flemish, ex-CVP, est.2001);
MR = Mouvement Réformateur
(Reformist Movement, social liberal, union of PFF, FDF
[to 2011], PRL, and MCC, est.2002); O-VLD
= Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (Open Flemish
Liberals and Democrats,
'Open VLD', conservative liberal, Flemish,
former VLD, est.Feb 2007); PS
= Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party, social-democratic, Francophone,
ex-BSP, est.1978); Mil =
Military;
- Former
parties: BSP-PSB = Parti
Socialiste Belge/Belgische Socialistische
Partij (Belgian Socialist Party, 1945-1980,
divided into PS and SP); Con
= Conservative; CP
= Confessionnel Catholique Parti/Confessionele
Katholieke Partij (Confessional Catholic Party,
1869-1921, then as Union Catholique/Katholieke Unie
[Catholic Union], catholic, conservative,
1921-1936); CVP =
Christelijke Volkspartij (Christian People's Party,
Flemish, christian-democratic, Flanders, 1968-2001,
renamed CD&V); CVP-PSC =
Christelijke Volkspartij/Parti Social-chrétien
(Christian People's Party-Social Christian Party,
1945-1972, divided into CVP and PSC); DeVlag
= Duitschen-Vlaamsche
Arbeidsgemeenschap/Deutsch-Vlämische Arbeitsgemeinschaft
(German-Flemish Workers Community, Flemish fascist,
pro-union with Germany, 1935-1945); Lib
= Liberal; PL/LP = Parti
Libéral/Liberale Partij (Liberal
Party, liberal, 1846-1961, then PVV-PLP); PSC
= Parti Social Chrétien (Social Christian Party,
center-right, in Wallonia and Brussels, 1972-2002,
renamed CDH); PCS-KVV = Parti
Catholique Social/Katholieke Vlaamsche Volkspartij
(Social Catholic Party-Catholic Flemish People's Party,
catholic federated parties, 1937-1945); POB-BWP
= Parti Ouvrier Belge/Belgische Werklieden
Partij (Belgian Worker's Party, socialist,
1885-1945, renamed BSP-PSB); PVV-PLP =
Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang/Parti pour
la Liberté et la Prosperité (Party for
Freedom and Prosperity, liberal, divided 1971 in PVV [in
Flanders and Brussels] and PLP [in Wallonia and
Brussels], 1961-1992); Rex =
Parti Rexiste (Rexist Party, officially Rex,
Walloon fascist, corporatist, socialist,
1936-1945); SP =
Socialistische Partij (Socialist Party,
social-democratic, Flemish, 1980-2001, renamed Socialistische
Partij.Anders); NSDAP
= Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
(National Socialist German Workers' Party, Nazi German
fascist, xenophobic, 1920-1945); Uni
= Union/Unie (Union, "Unionist,"
coalition of Lib and Con supporting
Belgian independence, 1828-1846); VLD
= Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (Flemish
Liberals and Democrats, conservative liberal, Flanders,
former PVV, 1992-Feb 2007, renamed O-VLD)
Independent State
of Flanders
22 Dec
1917
The Council of Flanders, believing that the German
occupiers
would encourage secession, proclaims independence.
25 Jul
1918
Terminated by German occupation authorities.
President of the Council of Flanders
22 Dec 1917 - 25 Jul 1918 Willem de
Vreese
(b. 1869 - d. 1938) Non-party
President of the Commission of Plenipotentiaries
22 Dec 1917 - 25 Jul
1918 Pieter Lodewijk
Tack
(b. 1870 - d. 1943) Non-party
Eupen and Malmedy
-
-
12 Aug
1919 - 10 Jun 1925
|
Population: 60,924
(1919)
|
1 Oct 1795
Annexed to France.
25 Dec 1813
Occupied
by Allied (Swedish and Prussian) troops.
6 Mar
1815
Malmedy (Malmédy) part of Prussia
(from 1871, Germany)
(fully incorporated
1822).
1
Dec 1918 - 1 Jan 1920 Allied occupation
(British to 12 Aug 1919).
28 Jun
1919
Ceded to Belgium by Germany under Treaty of Versailles.
12 Aug 1919
Belgian troops occupy the area.
1 Jan 1920
Formally ceded to Belgium (East Cantons).
20 Sep
1920
Eupen, Malmédy and Sankt-Vith annexed.
10 Jun 1925
Fully
incorporated into Belgium, part of province of Liège.
29 Jul
1940 - Feb 1945 Eupen, Malmédy
and Sankt-Vith annexed to Germany, and along
with former Neutral Moresnet (they are part of the
Prussian Rhine province as part of Aachen Regierungsbezirk).
Commanders of Allied Forces
1918 -
1919
Hysler (U.K.)
1919 -
1920
Auguste Édouard, baron
Michel (b. 1855 -
d. 1951)
du Faing d'Aigremont (Belgium)
Belgian Royal High
Commissioner and Governor of the Eastern Cantons
10 Jan 1920 - 10 Jun
1925 Herman Baltia
(b. 1863 - d. 1938)
(from 28 Aug 1920 Herman,
baron Baltia)
Regierungspräsident
of Aachen
1940 -
1944
Franz
Vogelsang
(b. 1899 - d. 1979) NSDAP
Former Polities in Belgium
Bouillon
-
- to 25 Oct 1795
|
1095
Lordship of Bouillon part of the Bishopric of Liège.
1129 - 1141
Count Renaud of Bar
captures Bouillon castle.
1155
The Holy
Roman Emperor confirms the bishop's rights to
Bouillon.
1291
First recorded style of the Bishop Liège as Duke
of Bouillon.
1456
Title Duke of Bouillon a permanent part of the
prince-bishop's
style (although merely titular during certain periods
noted).
31 Aug 1482 -
1521
Bouillon under the La Marck dynasty, contested by
the Bishops of Liège.
1521 -
1552
Part of the Bishopric of Liège.
1552 - 3 Apr
1559
French occupation, under the La Marck dynasty.
3 Apr
1559
Part of the Bishopric of Liège.
3 Apr
1559 - 1 May 1678 The La Marck dynasty and
its successor La Tour d'Auvergne
dynasty maintain its claims to the Duché
de Bouillon and
their style of duc/duchesse de Bouillon is
recognized by
France, possibly with technical regard to some
fragments of
the territory still in their possession.
8 May
1594
Claim to Bouillon passed to the de La Tour d'Auvergne
dynasty.
30 Sep 1676 - 1 May 1678 French
occupation.
1 May
1678
The King of France establishes the La Tour
d'Auvergne
dynasty in full sovereignty over the Duchy of Bouillon
under French protectorate.
26 May 1790
General Assembly
abolishes manorial and feudal rights.
1 May
1792
Bouillon becomes a constitutional monarchy.
19 Nov
1792
French occupation.
10 Dec 1793
Duke is deprived of rents
from his estates by French decree.
24 Apr
1794
With the Duke imprisoned in France, administration
under
the General Assembly which however, did not explicitly
abolish the ducauté. This
period is often erroneously
called the République Bouillonnaise
(Republic of Bouillon).
25 Oct
1795
Annexed to France
(incorporated into département
of Ardennes).
30 May 1814 - 1 Jan 1815 Allied
administration (see under Belgium).
Mar 1815 - 1815
French occupation.
22 Jul
1815
Part of Luxembourg.
7 Feb
1831
Part of Belgium.
Dukes
31 Jan 1696 - 16 May 1730 Emmanuel
Théodose
(b. 1668 - d. 1730)
16 May 1730 - 24 Oct 1771 Charles
Godefroy
(b. 1706 - d. 1771)
24 Oct 1771 - 3 Dec 1792 Godefroy
Charles
Henri
(b. 1728 - d. 1792)
3 Dec 1792 - 24 Apr 1794 Jacques
Léopold Charles Godefroy (b. 1746 - d.
1802)
(French prisoner from 7 Feb 1794)
24 Apr 1794 - 25 Oct 1795 Executive
Committee
- Claude Pierre Jobard
- Remacle Poncelet
- François Gérard
Pirson
(b. 1765 - d. 1850)
(chairman Oct - Dec 1794)
- Nicolas(?) Renault
(chairman Dec 1794 - c.Jan 1795)
- Pierre Castilhon
- Perot (chairman Apr - Jun 1795)
- Rénéaume-Latache
- Dominique Millard
- Jean Joseph Nannan
(chairman from Jul 1795)
1 Jan 1815 - Mar
1815
Philippe
(b. 1754 - d. 1816)
(Philip d'Auvergne)
18 Aug 1814 - Mar 1815 Antoine,
baron de Vauthier de (b. 1749 - d.
1839)
Baillamont -Governor (for Philippe)
Mar 1815 - 1 Dec
1815 Clement Bonichon -Governor
(b. 1773 - d. 18..)
(for Napoléon, then Louis XVIII)
Presidents of the Assembly
7 Mar
1790
Jacques Barhélémy (acting)
+ François Gérard Pirson
(s.a.)
Chairman of the Committee of Action
7 Mar 1790 - 19 Apr 1790
Richard Chauchet-Bourgeois
(b. 1767 - d. 1844)
Presidents of the Constituent Assembly
19 Apr 1790 - 4 Jun 1790
Richard Chauchet-Bourgeois
(s.a.)
4 Jun 1790 - 12 Mar 1791
Philippe Aubry
1791
Gérard Gérard
1791 - 24 Jan
1792
....
24 Jan
1792
Nicholaas Nannan (acting)
24 Jan 1792 - 27 Jan 1792 François
Gérard Pirson
(s.a.)
Presidents of the General Legislative
Assembly
27 Jan 1792 - 22 Nov 1793 François
Gérard Pirson
(s.a.)
22 Nov 1793 - 20 Feb 1794 Joseph
Maignaud
20 Feb 1794 - 1794
Claude
Pierre Jobard (1st time)
c.Jun 1794 - c.Sep 1794 Remacle
Poncelet
c.Sep 1794 - c.Dec 1794
Claude Pierre Jobard (2nd time)
c.Dec 1794 - c.Apr 1795
Pierre Castilhon
c.Apr 1795 - c.Jul 1795 Dominique
Millard
1795 - 25 Oct
1795
G. Philippe
Liège
![[Flag of Bishopric
of Liege to 1789/92] [Flag of
Bishopric of Liege to 1789/92]](be_liege-bsp.gif)
to 1789/92
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1789/1792-1794] [Liege flag
1789/1792-1794]](be-wlglg.gif)
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343
Traditional date of founding of the Bishopric of Liège
(Hochstift Lüttich).
14 Apr
972
Bishop becomes a Prince of the Empire, an immediate
vassal of the king.
21 Sep
1366
Counties of Looz and Horn annexed (de facto from 5 Apr
1361).
18 Aug 1789
Liégeoise revolution
begins.
30 Nov 1789 - 16 Apr 1790
Occupied by Prussia.
12 Jan 1791 - 28 Nov 1792 Occupied by
Austria.
28 Nov 1792 - 4 Mar 1793 Occupied
by France (annexed 30 Mar 1793).
5 Mar 1793 - 27 Jul
1794 Re-occupied by Austria.
8 May
1793
The French National Convention decrees the
incorporation
of Liège into France (ineffective at the time).
27 Jul
1794
Occupied by France, and treated as if incorporated,
together with the Belgian provinces as arrondissement
de Liège.
1 Oct
1795
Formal annexation to France;
part of départements of
Ourthe
and Meuse-Inférieure (see below).
Thereafter Liège undergoes
the same developments as the rest of Belgium.
Prince-Bishops (title Prince-évêque de
Liège [Fürstbischof zu Lüttich], comte de Looz,
marquis de Franchimont, etc.)
25 Oct 1694 - 12 Nov 1723 Joseph Clément, duc de
Bavière (b. 1671 - d. 1723)
12 Nov 1723 - 7 Dec 1724 François
Lambert, baron de Sélys
(Grand Dean of the Cathedral Chapter)
7 Dec 1724 - 5
Dec 1743 Georges II Louis de
Berghes (b.
1662 - d. 1743)
5 Dec 1743 - 10 Mar
1744 Jean-Louis Hyacinthe d'Oyenbrugge, (b.
1673 - d. 1753)
comte de Duras, baron d'Elderen
(Grand Dean of the Cathedral Chapter)
10 Mar 1744 - 27 Jan 1763 Jean XI
Théodore, duc de Bavière (b. 1703 - d. 1763)
27 Jan 1763 - 8 Apr 1763 Guillaume
Marie, baron de (b.
1709 - d. 1770)
Coudenhove de Fraiture
(Grand Dean of the Cathedral Chapter)
8 Apr 1763 - 22 Oct
1771 Charles Nicolas Alexandre, comte
d'Oultremont
(b. 1716 - d. 1771)
22 Oct 1771 - 14 Mar 1772 Charles Damien
Boos de Waldeck
(Grand Dean of the Cathedral Chapter)
14 Mar 1772 - 30 Apr 1784 François
Charles, comte de
(b. 1719 - d. 1784)
Vellbrueck
15 Aug 1784 - 13 Sep 1790 César
Constantin François, comte
de Hoensbroek (1st
time)
(b. 1724 - d. 1792)
13 Sep 1790 - 10 Jan 1791 Ferdinand
Maximilien Mériadec de
Rohan, prince de Guémenée,
archevêque de Cambrai -Regent
(b. 1738 - d. 1813)
11 Jan 1791 - 3 Jun 1792 César
Constantin François, comte
de Hoensbroek (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
3 Jun 1792 - 16 Aug
1792 Alexandre Constantin Joseph de
(b. 1738 - d. 1804)
Nassau, comte de Corroy
(Grand Dean of the Cathedral Chapter)
16 Aug 1792 - 28 Nov 1792 François
Antoine Marie Constantin,
comte de Méan et de Beaurieux (b. 1756
- d. 1817)
(1st time)
Chairmen of the Council of the City of
Liège
3 Dec 1792 - 8
Jan 1793 Jacques Joseph
Fabry
(b. 1722 - d. 1798)
8 Jan 1793 - 16 Feb
1793 Jean-Baptiste Winant Digneffe
(b. 1761 - d. 1844)
President of the National Convention
16 Feb 1793 - 4 Mar 1793 Jacques
Joseph
Fabry
(s.a.)
Imperial administrator
5 Mar 1793 - 21 Apr
1793 Friedrich Josias, Prinz von und zu
(b. 1737 - d. 1815)
Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld
Prince-Bishop
21 Apr 1793 - 20 Jul 1794 François
Antoine Marie Constantin, (s.a.)
comte de Méan et de Beaurieux
(2nd time)
President of the Emergency Committee
27 Jul 1794 - 21 Aug 1794 Bouchet
President of the Commune of Liège
21 Aug 1794 - 12 Sep 1794 Jacques Joseph
Fabry
(s.a.)
Presidents of Provisional Central
Administration
12 Sep 1794 - 22 Sep 1794 Thomas Joseph
Jehin
(b. 1732 - d. 1806)
22 Sep 1794 -
1794
Jean Nicolas Bassenge
l'aîné (b. 1758 - d.
1811)
12 Oct 1794 -
1794 Nicolas
Vanderheyden à Hauzeur (b. 1741
- d. 1807)
Oct 1794 - 4 Dec
1794 Pierre Joseph
Henkart
(b. 1761 - d. 1815)
Agent National of the Administration of Arrondissement
de Liège
Dec 1794 - 1 Oct
1795 Louis Ghislain de
Bouteville (b. 1746 - d. 1821)
Council of the City of Liège
27 Aug 1789 - 13 Sep
1790 Burgomaster-regents of
Liège
- Jacques Joseph
Fabry
(s.a.)
- Jean-Remi, baron Chestret
(b. 1739 - d. 1809)
Fagnolle (Ligne)
Map of Fagnolle
|
Capital: Fagnolle
|
Population: N/A
|
12th
Barony Ligne
1544
County of Ligne (Grafschaft Ligne).
1571
Barony of Fagnolle.
1601
Principality of Ligne (Fürstentum
Ligne)
1634
Fagnolle acquired by Ligne.
1770
County of Fagnolle (Grafschaft Fagnolle).
19 Nov
1792
Occupied by France.
12 May
1793
Annexed by France
(incorporated into département
Ardennes).
1803
Counts acquire former abbey of Edelstetten in Swabia;
which in 1805 is sold to Prince Esterhazy.
15 Feb
1814
Part of Belgian territory separated from France.
16 Mar
1815
Incorporation into United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
4 Oct
1830
Part of independent Belgium.
Counts (title Fürst
von Ligne und Graf zu
Fagnolle)
21 Dec 1679 - 8 Feb 1702 Henri
Louis
Ernest
(b. 1644 - d. 1702)
8 Feb 1702 - 8 Aug 1750
Antoine Joseph
Ghislain
(b. 1682 - d. 1750)
8 Aug 1750 - 7 Apr 1766
Claude Lamoral II
(b. 1685 - d. 1766)
7 Apr 1766 - 12 May 1793 Charles
Joseph
(b. 1735 - d. 1814)
(in name only to 14 Sep 1814)
Limburg
13 May
1106
Duchy of Limburg
7 Sep 1632 - 1 Nov
1635 Dutch occupation.
1672 - 1678
French occupation.
10 Dec
1703
The Austrian Habsburg rulers become Dukes of Limburg.
11 Jan 1790 - 2 Dec 1790 Part of
the United Belgian States (s.a.).
15 Dec
1792
Annexed to France.
28 Apr
1793
Habsburg rule restored.
1 Oct
1795
Annexed to France (part of département
Ourthe).
15 Feb
1814
Part of the "Belgian" Netherlands (province of Liège).
4 Oct
1830
Part of Belgium (province of Liège).
Dukes
10 Dec 1703 - 11 Jan 1790 the
archdukes of Austria
2 Dec 1790 - 15 Dec 1792 the
archdukes of Austria
28 Apr 1793 - 1 Oct 1795 the
archdukes of Austria
Stadholders of Limburg and the Lands over the
Maas (Landen van Overmaas)
27 Mar 1665 - 1684
Johan Frans Desideratus, prins
(b. 1627 - d. 1699)
van Nassau-Siegen
28 Jan 1685 - 8 Feb 1702 Henri
Louis Lamoral Prince de Ligne (b. 1644 - d.
1702)
8 Oct 1702 - 1703
Franz
Sigismund von Thurn und Taxis (b. 1655 - d. 1710)
Graf von Valsassina
22 Oct 1703 - 1705
Philipp
Ludwig Wenzel Graf
(b. 1671 - d. 1742)
Sinzendorff und Thannhausen
(1st
time)
19 Oct 1705 -
1707
Johann Peter Graf von
Goëss
(b. 1667 - d. 1716)
6 Nov 1707 - Jul
1709 Francisco Bernardo de
Quiros (b.
1650 - d. 1709)
23 Jul 1709 - 25 Feb 1710 Johann Wenzel
Graf von Gallas
(b. 1670 - d. 1719)
25 Feb 1710 - 27 Oct 1713 Franz Adolf
Freiherr von Sinzerling
(Zinserling)
27 Oct 1713 - 14 Dec 1713 Philipp Ludwig
Wenzel
Graf
(s.a.)
Sinzendorff und Thannhausen
(2nd time)
14 Dec 1713 -
1714
Georg Freiherr
Tunderfeld
(b. 1678 - d. 1748)
17 Mar 1714 -
1723 Franz
Thurn und Taxis, Graf von (b. 1662 - d.
1726)
Valsassina
1723 - 1725
Vacant
1725 - 10 May 1727
Alexander Otto Graf von Vehlen
(b. 1657 - d. 1727)
20 May 1728 - 17 Sep 1754 Wolfgang
Willem van Bournonville, (b. 1670 - d. 1754)
markgraaf Van Sars, baron Van
Capres, heer Van
Fleignies
Drossard (Chief Justice)
1754 -
1794
Philippe Joseph Dieudonné,
(b. 1711 - d. 1797)
graaf van Woestenraedt
Commissioner of
Arrondissement
de Maestricht
30 Oct 1794 -
1795 Charles
Clément Roemers
(b. 1748 - d. 1838)
Neutral Moresnet
1883/85 - 27 Jun 1915
|
Map
of Neutral Moresnet
|
Capital: Moresnet
|
Unofficial
Anthem
“Amikejo-march”
Adopted 1908
|
Border
Treaty of Aachen
(26 Jun 1816; in French)
|
GDP: $N/A
Demilitarized by Treaty
|
Exports: $N/A
Imports: $N/A |
Currencies: French Franc
(FRF); 1831-1920 Belgian
Franc (BEF); 1871-1918
German Mark (DED); 1816-31 Dutch
Guilder (NLG) |
Population: 3,596 (1919)
256 (1816); 500 (1830);
2,572 (1858)
|
International
Organizations/Treaties: None |
26 Jun
1816
Part of Moresnet, claimed by both The Netherlands and
Prussia, is "temporarily neutralized" and put under
a common administration.
23 Sep
1818
Border demarcation markers formally installed.
22 Sep
1830
Belgium replaces Netherlands as claimant and
administrator
(recognized by the Netherlands 22 Jun 1839).
26 Jun 1831
Transfer of
the Dutch law from the contract of 26 Jun 1816 to
Belgium.
8 Aug
1914
German occupation.
27 Jun
1915
Administration by Prussia only.
Nov
1918
Administration by Belgium only.
28 Jun
1919
Ceded to Belgium by Germany under Treaty of
Versailles.
10 Jan
1920
Annexed to Belgium (as municipality of Kelmis/La
Calamine).
29 Jul 1940 - 10 Sep
1944 Annexed by Germany.
10 Sep
1944
Restored to Belgium.
Dec 1944 - Jan
1945 Brief
German reoccupation.
Netherlands Royal Commissioners
8 Dec 1817 - 2 Dec 1823
Werner Jacob
2 Dec 1823 -
1830
Joseph Brandès
1830 - 8 Jun
1835
Vacant
Belgian Royal Commissioners (from 1889, also
district commissioners of Verviers)
8 Jun 1835 -
1840
Lambert
Ernst
(b. 1798 - d. 1871)
1 Feb 1840 -
1889
Mathieu
Crémer
(b. 1805 - d. 1889)
30 Nov 1889 - 27 Mar 1915 Fernand
Jacques Bleyfuesz (1st time)(b. 1858 - d. 1935)
27 Mar 1915 - 27 Jun 1915 Bayer
(acting)
(clerk of the German military administration in
Verviers)
27 Jun 1915 - Nov
1918 Vacant
Nov 1918 - 10 Jan
1920 Fernand Jacques Bleyfuesz
(2nd time)(s.a.)
Prussian Royal Commissioners (from 1854,
also districts commissioners of Eupen)
6 Aug 1817 -
1819
Wilhelm Hardt
(b. 1755 -
d. 1831)
22 Apr 1819 - 26 Nov 1835 Johann Martin
Daniel
Mayer
(b. 1769 - d. 1835)
9 Jul 1836 - 9 Nov 1853
Heinrich Martins
11 Aug 1852 - 7 Jan 1866 Peter
Benedict Joseph
Armand (b.
1813 - d. 1866)
von Harenne
(head of police administration to 16 Jan 1854)
12 Dec 1866 - 10 Jul 1867 August
Freiherr von der
Heydt (b. 1825 -
d. 1867)
1868 - 24 Oct 1870
Edwin
Gülcher
(b. 1822 - d. 1870)
18 Jun 1871 -
1893
Theodor Alfred Sternickel
(b. 1825 - d. 1894)
18 Apr 1893 - 1 Jan 1909 Alfred
Jakob Bernhard Theodor (b. 1849 -
d. 1922)
Gülcher
13 Jan 1909 -
1913
Walter Karl Maria The Losen
(b. 1880 - d. 1919)
2 Nov 1913 - Nov
1918 Spiess (acting)
Nov 1918 - 10 Jan 1920 Vacant
Mayors
1817 - 21 Feb
1859
Arnold Timothée de Lasaulx (acting) (b. 1774 - d.
1861)
21 Feb 1859 - 30 May 1859 Adolf Hubert
van Scherpenzeel-Thim (b. 1824 - d. 1877)
1 Jul 1859 - 7 Feb 1882
Joseph Kohl
7 Feb 1882 - 20 Jun 1885 Oskar
Anton Bilharz
(b. 1831 - d. 1917)
20 Jun 1885 - 15 Mar 1915 Hubert
Schmetz
(b. 1862 - d. 1930)
29 Mar 1915 - 7 Dec 1918 Wilhelm
Kyll
(b. 1876 - d.
af.1956)
7 Dec 1918 - 10 Jan 1920 Pierre
Joseph Grignard
(b. 1851 - d. 1925)
(then mayor of Kelmis to 7 Feb 1923)
Nivelles
645
Benedictine Abbey of Nivelles (Stift
Nivelles)
....
Abbesses made Princesses of the Empire.
1 Oct
1795
Annexed by France
(part of département Dyle).
15 Feb
1814
Part of Belgian territory separated from France.
16 Mar
1815
Incorporation into United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
4 Oct
1830
Part of independent Belgium.
Princess-Abbesses (title Abbesse-Princesse
d'Empire de Nivelles/
Fürstabtissin zu Nivelles)
3 Apr 1663 - 9 Nov 1705
Madeleine Thérèse de Noyelles
(b. 16.. - d. 1705)
16 May 1706 - 26 Nov 1724 Marie
Françoise Josephine de Berghes (b. 1678 -
d. 1724)
16 Oct 1725 - 4 Mar 1743 Caroline
(Charlotte) de Berlaimont (d. 1743)
(or
Berlaymont)
6 Aug 1744 - 28 Feb 1774 Ursule
Antoinette de Berlo de (b.
1703 - d. 1774)
Frandouaire
8 Aug 1774 - 1 Oct 1795
Marie Félicité Philippine van der
(b. 1731 - d. 1799)
Noot
Reckheim (Rekem)
1108
First lord of
Reckheim mentioned. Reckheim a free lordship
(Herrschaft Reckheim/Heerlijkheid Rekem), directly
under Emperor.
1356
Barony of Reckheim
1564 - 1590
To Quadt-Wickrath.
1590
Under Aspremont-Lynden
dynasty.
31 Mar 1623
Reckheim an imperial county (Grafschaft
Reckheim/Rijksgraafschap
Rekem).
1793
French occupation, annexed 1 Oct 1795 (part of département
Meuse
-Inférieure) and formally ceded to France on 9 Feb
1801.
From this point Reckheim follows the history of
Belgian
Limburg.
25 Feb 1803 - 12 Jul 1806 Last, Count Johan
Nepomuk Gobert I d'Aspremont-Lynden, granted
the Abbey of Baindt
as compensation for loss of Reckheim.
Counts (title Graf von Reckheim)
31 Mar 1623 - 24 Aug 1636 Ernst (lord
from 5 Jun 1603) (b.
1583 - d. 1636)
24 Aug 1636 - 24 Aug 1665 Ferdinand I
(b. 1611 - d.
1665)
24 Aug 1665 - 1 Feb 1708 Ferdinand
II Gobert
(b. 1643 - d. 1708)
1 Feb 1708 - 3 May 1720
Joseph Gobert
(b.
1694 - d. 1720)
3 Feb 1720 - 24 Nov 1749 Karl
Gobert
(b.
1703 - d. 1749)
24 Nov 1749 - 1 Oct 1795 Johann
Nepomuk Gobert I
(b. 1732 - d. 1805)
Stavelot-Malmédy/Stablo-Malmedy
648
Benedictine Abbey of Malmedy Abbey established.
651
Stavelot Abbey established;
ruled in union (Klöster Stablo und
Malmedy).
747
Acquired territory
from Carloman.
882
Acquired Blendef.
....
Abbots also Princes of the Empire.
2/4 Mar 1793 -
1793
Occupied by France (annexed 2 Mar 1793).
16 Sep
1794
Occupied by France.
1 Oct
1795
Annexed by France;
Stavelot is merged with Franchimont as
an arrondissement of département
of Ourthe (see below).
15 Feb
1814
Allied administration.
6 Mar
1815
Malmedy (Malmédy) part of Prussia
(from 1871 Germany).
16 Mar
1815
Stavelot part of the Netherlands.
4 Oct
1830
Stavelot Part of Belgium.
30 Sep
1920
Malmédy incorporated into Belgium (see Eupen and Malmédy).
Prince-Abbots (title Fürstabt zu
Stablo-Malmedy/Abbé-Prince d'Empire de
Stavelot-Malmedy)
1682 - 10 Apr
1704
Wilhelm III Egon Graf von Fürstenberg/
(b. 1629 - d. 1704)
Guillaume Egon, comte de Furstenberg
(appointed 1682, confirmed 15 Jul 1683)
30 May 1704 - 27 Jul 1715 Franz II
Anton Herzog von
Lothringen/
(b. 1689 - d. 1715)
François Antoine, duc de Lorraine
(elected 1704, cofirmed 22 Dec 1704)
1704 - 1708
Jacob Godding/
Jacques Godding -Administrator
(acting for the Duke of Lorraine)
(confirmed 22 Dec 1704)
15 Oct 1715 - 26 Jul 1731 Johann IV
Ernst Graf von Löwenstein/
Jean-Ernest, comte de
Loewenstein
(b. 1667 - d. 1731)
(elected 1715, confirmed 16 Dec 1715,
sworn in 26 Apr 1716)
16 Aug 1731 - 3 May 1737 Nikolaus
II
Massin/
(b. 1677 - d. 1737)
Nicolas de Massin
(elected 16 Aug 1731, confirmed 29 Dec 1731)
3 Aug 1737 - 14 Jun 1741 Deodat
Drion/
Dieudonné de
Drion
(b. 1684 - d. 1741)
(elected 3 Aug 1737, confirmed 3 Oct 1737)
14 Sep 1741 - 16 Sep 1753 Joseph de
Nollet-Bourdon/
(b. 1672 - d. 1753)
Joseph de Nollet a Bourdon
(elected 14 Sep 1741, confirmed 27 Nov 1741,
invested 13 Mar 1747)
14 Dec 1753 - 2 Oct 1766
Alexander
Delmotte/
(b. 1696 - d. 1766)
Alexandre Delmotte
(elected 14 Dec 1753, confirmed 1 Apr 1754)
27 Nov 1766 - 22 Dec 1786 Jacob
Hubin/
(b. 1705 - d. 1786)
Jacques de Hubin
4 Jan 1787 - 21 Jul 1794 Célestin
Thys
(b. 1730 - d. 1796)
(elected 4 Jan 1787, confirmed 23 Apr 1787,
invested 17 Dec 1787, in Hanau exile to 1 Oct 1796)
Administrator
Jul 1794 - 26 Sep 1794 the
magistrate of Malmédy
Ostend under Dutch rule
13 Jun 1584
Ostend occupied by Dutch forces.
20 Sep 1604
City surrendered to Spanish
Netherlands.
Governors
13 Jun 1584 - 1585
Guillaume de Blois, dict Treslong
(b. 1529 - d. 1594)
(Willem
Bloys van Treslong)
Mar 1585 - 1586
Guillaume de Hertaing, sieur de Marquette
(b. c.1550 - d. 1586)
(Willem
de Hertaing De Marquette)
1586 - Jan 1587
Sir Thomas Knollys (Knolles)
(b. c.1555 - d.
c.1596)
12 Jan 1587 - 11 Aug 1590 John Conway
(b. 1535 - d.
1603)
7 Sep 1590 - Sep 1599 Sir Edward
Norris (Norreys)
(b. c.1565 - d. 1603)
1599 - 1600
Jean Piron
1600 - 1601
Maximiliaan van Cruyningen
(b. 1556 - d.
1612)
1601
Charles
van der Noot, heer van
(b. c.1565 - d. 1614)
Hoogwoud
en Aartswoud (1st time)
9 Jul 1601 - 7 Mar 1602
Sir Francis Vere
(b. 1560 - d. 1609)
(led
defense of the city)
7 Mar 1602 - 13 Jul 1603 Frederik van Dorp
(b. 1547 - d. 1612)
Jul 1603 - Dec 1603 Charles
van der Noot, heer van
(s.a.)
Hoogwoud
en Aartswoud (2nd time)
Dec 1603 - 21 Mar 1604 Pierre
(Jean?) de Ghistelles
21 Mar 1604 - 25 Mar 1604 Johan van Loon
(b. 15.. - d. 1604)
25 Mar 1604 - 6 Jun 1604 Jacques van der
Meer, baron de
(b. 15.. - d. 1604)
Berendrecht
6 Jun 1604 - 17 Jun 1604 Antonie van
Uytenhoove
Jun 1604 - 20 Sep 1604 Daniël de Hertaing,
sieur de Marquette (b. 15.. - d. 1625)
French
Départements in Belgium 1793 - 1814
Deux-Nèthes
1 Oct
1795
French département des
Deux-Nèthes (Dutch: departement Twee Neten)
formed
from southern Brabant and Lordship of Malines
(Mechelen).
16 Mar
1810
Brabant department of the Kingdom
Holland west of the Donge
annexed by France to Deux-Nèthes as
district Breda.
1814
End of
French rule; incorporated into Belgium (under
Netherlands rule).
1814 - 1815
Allied administration.
Commissioners
1796 - 31 May
1798 Charles
Louis Bruslé de
Valsuzenay (b. 1766 - d. 1825)
1798 - 6 May 1798
De Villers
(acting for Bruslé)
31 May 1798 - 9 Jul 1799 Alexandre François
Narcisse Levêque (b. 1756 - d. 1844)
6 Apr 1799 - 3 Jul 1799 Saunier
(acting for Levêque)
13 Jul 1799 -
1800
Dominique Ogez
(b.
1767 - d. 1839)
Prefects
1800 - 25 Jul
1805
Charles Joseph
Fortuné,
(b. 1756 - d. 1829)
marquis d'Herbouville
29 Jul 1805 - 29 Mar 1809 Charles Cochon
de
Lapparent
(b. 1750 - d. 1825)
(from 10 Sep 1808, Charles Cochon,
chevalier de Lapparent)
1809 - 1813
Marc René de Voyer de Paulmy
(b. 1771 - d. 1842)
d'Argenson
12 Mar 1813 -
1814
Jacques Fortunat, baron Savoye-Rollin(b. 1751 - d. 1823)
Intendant
14 Feb 1814 - 1815
François Louis Joseph, chevalier de
(b. 1750 - d. 1816)
Wargny (provisional)
Dyle
1 Oct
1795
French département de la Dyle
(Dutch: departement Dijle) formed
from
parts of the Brabant, Counties of Hainaut,
Namur, and
Flanders
and the Bishopric of Liège.
1814
End of French
rule; incorporated into Belgium (under
Netherlands rule).
1814 - 1815
Allied administration.
Commissioners
1795 - 14 Sep 1797
Charles
Lambrechts
(b. 1753 - d. 1823)
14 Sep 1797 - 14 Feb 1799 François René
Auguste Mallarmé (b.
1755 - d. 1835)
14 Feb 1799 - 1800
Nicolas Jean Rouppe
(b. 1769
- d. 1838)
Prefects
2 Mar 1800 - 1 Feb 1805 Louis
Gustave Doulcet de
(b. 1764 - d. 1853)
Pontécoulant
1 Dec 1805 -
1808 François
Louis René Mouchard de (b. 1757 -
d. 1814)
Chaban
12 May 1808 -
1813
Frédéric Séraphin de La Tour
du (b. 1759 - d. 1837)
Pin-Gouvernet
(from 14 Feb 1810, Frédéric Séraphin,
baron La Tour du Pin-Gouvernet)
12 Mar 1813 - 1814
Frédéric Christophe,
baron
(b. 1778 - d. 1859)
d'Houdetot
Intendant
14 Feb 1814 - 1815
Jacques Joseph Dominique
d'Anethan (b. 1769 - d. 1841)
(provisional)
Escaut
2 Mar
1793
County of Flanders is annexed by France, but
non-integrated.
19 Mar
1793
French lose Flanders.
1 Oct
1795
French département de l'Escaut
(Dutch: departement Schelde)
formed from parts of County of Flanders
and the Dutch Flanders
of the
States.
1814
End of French rule;
incorporated into Belgium (under
Netherlands rule).
1814 - 1815
Allied administration.
Commissioners
18 Nov 1795 - 5 Aug 1799 Reinier Grégoire
Dubosch
(b. 1765 - d. 1842)
5 Aug 1799 - 24 Mar 1800 Bernard
François Joseph van Wambeke (b. 1764 - d. 1841)
Prefects
24 Mar 1800 -
1808
Guillaume Marie
Faipoult
(b. 1752 - d. 1817)
18 Sep 1808 -
1813
Frédéric Christophe
d'Houdetot (b. 1778 - d.
1859)
(from 18 Jun 1809, Frédéric
Christophe, baron d'Houtetot)
12 Mar 1813 - 25 Mar 1813 Jean-François
Marie, baron Delaître (b. 1766 - d. 1835)
(not installed)
25 Mar 1813 - Feb 1814 Antoine
François Erhard
Marie (b. 1757 - d.
1830)
Catherine, baron Desmousseaux de
Givré
Intendants
14 Feb 1814 - 1814
Charles Liévin Beaucarne
(b. 1756 - d. 1815)
(provisional)
1814 - 1815
Jean-Baptiste d'Hane de Steenhuyse
(b. 1757 - d. 1826)
(provisional)
Forêts: see Luxembourg
Jemmapes
2 Mar
1793
Creation of French département
of Jemappe formed from County
of Hainaut.
23 Mar
1793
Annexation of Bailiwick of Tournai (Doornik).
2 Apr
1793
Austrians occupy the area of Jemappe.
26 Jun
1794
France recaptures Hainaut and Tournai; département
of
Jemmape restored.
3 Aug
1794
French government proclaims that territories newly
re-occupied
are considered as "pays conquis"
(conquered land), and
restoration of département of
Jemmappe is suspended;
arrondissement
of Hainaut.
30 Aug
1795
Restoration of département de
Jemmappe.
1 Oct
1795
Renamed département de Jemmapes.
1814
End of French
rule.
1814 - 1815
Allied administration.
Commissioners
19 Jan 1793 - 25 Mar 1793 Mouchet
+ Légier
+ Raphaël Leroy
2 Jul 1794 - 1 Dec 1794 Jasmin Lamotze
1 Dec 1794 - 1795
Prudhomme
23 Nov 1795 - 1795
Charles Duvivier
Nov 1795 -
1796
Bazin
Jan 1796 - May?
1796 Volkerick
May 1796 - Jun
1796 Casimir
Varon
(b. 1761 - d. 1796)
1796
Dubois
1796
Aubert
1796
Houzé
1796 - 1797
Claude François Gonnet de Fiéville
(b. 1752 - d. 1815)
20 Apr 1797 - 1797
Dewamin
24 Sep 1797 - 1797 P.A.
Defacqz
1797 - 1798
Pierre François Joseph
Delneufcourt (b. 1756 - d. 1827)
1798
Charles Stanislas Troye
(b. 1770 - d. 1844)
Jun 1798 - 3 Jul 1799
Jean-Baptiste Martial Pradier
(b. 1776 - d. 1805?)
3 Jul 1799 - Apr 1800 Jean
Ambroise De Puydt
(b. 1758 - d. 1836)
Prefects
Apr 1800 - 1805
Jean-Baptiste Étienne
Garnier (b.
1756 - d. 1817)
1 Feb 1805 -
1810 Patrice
Charles Ghislain de Coninck (b. 1770 - d.
1827)
d'Outrive
7 Aug 1810 - 8 Feb 1812
Jean-Baptiste Maximilien,
baron (b. 1773 - d. 1847)
Villot de Fréville
9 Mar 1812 -
1814
Pierre Clément de
Laussat
(b. 1756 - d. 1835)
Intendants
14 Feb 1814 - 10 Mar 1814 Bonaventure Hyacinthe
Joseph, (b. 1755 -
d. 1831)
chevalier de Bousies (provisional)
10 Mar 1814 - 1815 Auguste,
baron de La Motte-Baraffe (b. 1782 - d. 1852)
(provisional)
Lys (Leie)
1 Oct
1795
French département de la Lys (Dutch: departement
Leie) formed
from
western Austrian (Belgian) Flanders
1814
End of French rule.
1814 - 1815
Allied administration.
Commissioners
1795 -
1797
Jacques
Devaux
(b. 1766 - d. 1807)
1797 -
1798
Jean-François
Baret
(b. 1756 - d. 1800)
1798 - Apr
1799
Pierre Antoine, comte Herwyn
de (b. 1753 - d. 1824)
Névèle
1799 -
1800
Fournier
Prefects
25 May 1800 - 12 Mar 1804 François Marie
Joseph Justin de (b. 1736
- d. 1813)
Viry
12 Mar 1804 - 7 Apr 1804
Eugène Joseph Marie Goubau (interim) (b. 1761 - d.
1839)
7 Apr 1804 - 3 Nov 1810
Bernard François, marquis de
(b. 1766 - d.
1832)
Chauvelin
30 Nov 1810 - 14 Aug 1811 Pierre Amédée
Vincent Joseph Marie (b. 1767 - d. 1811)
Arborio-Biamino
25 Aug 1811 -
1814
Jean-François Soult
(b. 1772 - d. 1823)
Intendants
14 Feb 1814 - 1814
Bernard Van Severen (provisional)
(b. 1761 - d. 1837)
Apr 1814 - 1815
Constantin de Preud'homme d'Hailly
de
Nieuport (provisional)
(b. 1748 - d.
1835)
Meuse-Inférieure
Nov
1794
French département de la
Meuse-Inférieure (Dutch: departement
Beneden-Maas) formed from southern
Bishopric of Liege,
Limburg, and parts of Netherlands.
1 Oct
1795
Annexed to France.
1814
End of French rule.
Commissioners
30 Oct 1794 - 1795
Charles Clément
Roemers
(b. 1748 - d. 1838)
(of Arrondissement
de Maestricht)
1795
André Charles Membrède
(b. 1758 - d. 1831)
1 Oct 1795 - 13 Aug
1796 Jean-Louis Rogier
23 Aug 1796 - Jun 1799
Nicholas Girard
13 Jun 1799 - 23 Apr 1800 François
Alexandre Cavenne (b.
1773 - d. 1856)
Prefects
2 Mar 1800 - 1800
Chateaugiron (did not take
office)
Apr 1800 - 1801
Jean-Henri Becays Ferrand,
dit (b. 1736 - d. 1805)
Ferrand de Lacaussade
2 Nov 1801 - 1806
Pierre
Loisel
(b. 1751 - d. 1813)
31 Jan 1806 -
1814
Jean-Baptiste Roggieri
(b. 1761 - d. 1827)
Intendant
14 Feb 1814
Joseph Brandès
(provisional)
(did not
take office)
Ourthe
1 Oct
1795
French département de l'Ourthe (Dutch: departement
Ourte) formed
from
Principality of Stavelot, parts of Bishopric
of Liege
and Duchy of Luxembourg, and some villages of
County of Namur
and
Duchy of Brabant.
15 Sep
1814
End of French rule.
Commissioners
Sep 1794 -
1795
Provisional administration
1795 - Nov
1795
Louis Ghislain de Bouteville-Dumetz (b. 1746 - d.
1821)
18 Nov 1795 - 16 Dec 1795 Jean-Baptiste
Winant Digneffe (b. 1761 - d.
1844)
16 Dec 1795 - May 1798
Jean Nicolas
Bassenge
(b. 1758 - d. 1811)
25 May 1798 - Aug 1799
Lambert Bassenge
(b. 1757 - d.
1821)
20 Aug 1799 - 30 Mar 1800
Hauzeur-Simonon
Prefects
30 Mar 1800 - 4 Apr 1806 Antoine
François
Catherine
(b. 1757 - d. 1830)
Desmousseaux de Givré
7 Apr 1806 - 1814
Charles
Emmanuel, baron
Micoud (b. 1753 - d.
1817)
d'Umons
Sambre-et-Meuse
1 Oct
1795
French département de
Sambre-et-Meuse formed from
County of Namur and parts of Luxembourg.
1814
End of
French rule.
1814 - 1815
Allied administration.
Commissioners
Dec 1795 - Feb
1799 Chanteau
11 Feb 1799 - 16 Feb 1799 Maurice Neukomm
16 Feb 1799 - 1800?
Pierre Gabriel Pascal
Mallarmé (b. 1746 -
d. 1830)
Prefects
2 Mar 1800 - Jan 1814
Emmanuel Pérès de Lagesse
(b. 1752 - d. 1833)
(from 14 Feb 1810, Emmanuel, baron
Pérès de Lagesse)
2 Jan 1814 - 1814
Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemont
(b. 1784 - d. 1850)
Intendant
14 Feb 1814 - 1815
Gabriel Amour Joseph de Bruges de
(b. 1766 - d. 1844)
Branchon (provisional)
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