Live auction - Lot 445
[Belgium - Flanders]
Three documents by two bishops, from Mechelen and Roermond, 1675, 1681, 1683.
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
In French (2) or Latin (1), on paper, bifolia, various sizes (1 marginally stained).
In good condition.
1. Letter to "Rde Mere", French, from Grimbergen, 7 October 1675, signed by "Alphonse Archevesq(ue) de Malines": “permission de Monseign. pour la reception de la fille de Mons. Ribero” (note on verso). - 2. Latin document from Brussels, 20 November 1683, written in the name of "Alphonsus de Berghes ... Archie(pisco)pus Mechliniensis" concerning "Guilielmus van Nesse ... pastor in Leefdael", and signed "J. de Maeyere". With covered seal. - 3. Letter, in French, from Roermond, 6 January 1681 by "Reginalde Euesque de Ruremunde". Alphonsus de Berghes (1624-1689) was bishop from 1670 onwards. Reginald Cools (1618-1706) was bishop of Roermond 1677-1700, and from 1700-1706 bishop of Antwerp.