Joseph de Bergaigne
Illustrious and Most Reverend Doctor Joseph de Bergaigne | |
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Bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch (appointed 1638) | |
Orders | |
Consecration | 27 October 1641 by Jacobus Boonen |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | 24 October 1647 Münster, Prince-Bishopric of Münster, Holy Roman Empire | (aged 59)
Buried | Franciscan church, Antwerp |
Education | Philosophy and Theology |
Joseph de Bergaigne (1588–1647) was a prelate and diplomat from the
Life
Bergaigne was born in Breda, in the Duchy of Brabant, on 1 May 1588, to a family of Italian descent that later moved to Antwerp.[1] He entered the Order of Friars Minor at an early age and was sent to study in Spain, where he obtained doctorates in both philosophy and theology, which he went on to teach in Cologne and Mainz.
He became provincial of the Rhine province in 1616, and in 1618 definitor and commissioner general for Germany and the Low Countries. Emperor Ferdinand II entrusted him with a number of sensitive missions, including negotiations concerning the election of the future Emperor Ferdinand III as King of the Romans in 1636.[1]
In January 1638 he was appointed
References
- ^ a b c Jules de Saint-Genois, "Bergaigne (Joseph de)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, 1868), 175-176.
- ^ a b c d Honoré Fisquet, La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana): Cambrai (Paris, Étienne Repos, 1864), pp. 228-230. On Google Books.