Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands information
Administrative body of the Habsburg Netherlands
Privy Councillors Engelbert Maes, Guillaume de Grysperre, Ferdinand de Boisschot, Jean Grivel and Guillaume de Steenhuys in the funeral cortege of Archduke Albert (1622)
The Privy Council or Secret Council (Dutch: Geheime Raad, French: Conseil Privé) was one of the three "collateral councils" (along with the Council of Finance and Council of State) that together formed the highest government institutions of the Habsburg Netherlands.[1] Based in Brussels, it was particularly charged with legal and administrative questions.[2]
^Paul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels (2015), p. 393.
^Georges Martyn, "How 'Sovereign' were the Southern Netherlands under the Archdukes?", in The Twelve Years Truce (1609): Peace, Truce, War and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century, edited by Randall Lesaffer (Leiden and Boston, 2014), p. 201.
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