Anthonie Schetz
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Anthonie II Schetz 1st Count of Grobbendonk |
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Antonie II Schetz Count of Grobbendonk
(1564-1641) at the age of 64. |
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| Born | Around 1564 Antwerp |
| Died | 1640/41 Brussels |
| Allegiance |
 Spain
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| Service/branch | Army of Flanders |
| Commands held | Governor of 's-Hertogenbosch (1589–1629) Governor of Leuven (1635) |
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| Spouse(s) | (1) Barbara Karremans (2) Maria van Malsen |
| Relations |
Conrad III Schetz (brother) Lancelot II Schetz (son) |
AnthonieSchetz (1564,Antwerp - 1640 or 1641, Brussels), was a military commander in Spanish service during the Eighty Years' War. He was baron (and from 1637 count) of Grobbendonk, lord of Tilburg and Goirle, Pulle and Pulderbos, and Wezemaal. He was the military governor of 's-Hertogenbosch until the town was lost to the Dutch in 1629, captain of a cavalry regiment, and a knight of the order of Santiago.
The youngest son of Gaspard II Schetz and Catharina d'Ursel, of the noble Ursel family, and the younger brother of Conrad III Schetz, Anthonie was baptised in Antwerp in August 1564. His parents had 21 children in total, eight of whom survived to adulthood. His father was from the Schetzenbergh family, a German patrician family from Schmalkalden, and was the chief banker in Antwerp, financing several merchants who traded to Russia and Brazil, including his own brothers Melchior and Balthazar. Gaspar was also banker to Philip II of Spain, giving him a political role and making him a leading figure in the Antwerp of the second half of the 16th century.
In 1637 Baron Schetz was created 1st Count of Grobbendonck.
In 1582 Anthonie married Barbara Karremans and after her early and childless death in 1604 he remarried to Maria van Malsen, daughter of Hubert van Malsen and heiress of Tilburg, a lordship in Goirle that through her father Hubert had been made allodial by paying the asking price of 8,000 guilders to outbid a previous lord from the related Van Haestrecht family – a century earlier it had been loaned to Joanna, Duchess of Brabant. This marriage made Antonie lord of Tilburg and Goirlie and after 1629, when 's-Hertogenbosch was handed over to the Dutch Republic, Schetz recognised the Republic as their owner and overlord.
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